Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at the heart of a modern data platform SaaS, where streaming ingestion and declarative pipelines are increasingly central to customer value. The focus on real time and near real time data movement, alongside operational abstractions aligned with a “no knobs” philosophy, reflects a mature cloud product environment where infrastructure choices directly shape usability and adoption.
For a SaaS engineering leader, the work maps to durable platform problems: orchestrating multi tenant reliability, performance, self healing behavior, and secure data handling as default product capabilities. Managing delivery from idea through design and implementation, while partnering closely with product management, builds the kind of product aligned engineering judgment that transfers across data infrastructure, developer platforms, and enterprise SaaS.
This role is best suited to an experienced manager who still leans into technical leadership and enjoys turning ambiguous platform needs into clear team plans and shipped systems. It will fit someone comfortable coordinating across engineering and business stakeholders, and who values building strong teams while being accountable for service quality at scale in a cloud first setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
The mission of the Snowflake Streaming team is to empower customers to ingest, transform, and serve their data using real-time and near real-time pipelines within Snowflake. Guided by Snowflake's "no knobs" philosophy, we develop infrastructure that manages orchestration, performance, self-healing, security, and privacy so that customers can focus on their business logic. Leveraging our team's extensive background in building streaming systems, we create infrastructure that is simple to operate and adaptable to diverse business requirements. With Dynamic Tables for declarative data pipelines , and Snowpipe Streaming high performance architecture we have an outstanding foundation with strong customer adoption. Now it is time for the next generation of innovation.
We are seeking a talented experienced Senior Engineering Manager for our Streaming team in Berlin, as we scale the team for the next phase of growth.
AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Lead and drive projects from idea formulation to design and implementation.
Drive great partnership with the product management team.
Set team strategy and be accountable for team plans and deliverables.
Grow and build a strong, healthy and diverse team through hiring, mentoring and coaching.
Collaborate with other engineering and cross functional teams.
Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams.
Enable the data science organization, business groups, engineering teams to build comprehensive analytics quickly and effectively.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
10+ years hands-on software development experience, including experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms
5+ years of engineering management experience.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on delivering impactful results.
Prior experience driving company initiatives and growth of the business in collaboration with product managers, marketing, sales, etc.
A background in SQL engines, especially in SQL compilation and/or streaming systems.
Demonstrated track record of managing operational excellence to ensure service availability, reliability and scalable performance..
Proven track record of recruiting, hiring, leading and growing technical teams.
BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
