Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at a core seam of the SaaS infrastructure layer: turning a widely adopted open source database into a fully managed, cloud-native service. In the current SaaS landscape, managed data services increasingly compete on operational guarantees as much as features, and the listing signals ownership across both the Postgres dataplane and the control plane that makes a service production-grade.
For a SaaS career, the work maps directly to the skills that travel across modern cloud products: designing for high availability, safe upgrades, backups, scaling automation, and operational readiness. The emphasis on balancing durability, performance, security, and cost reflects the everyday trade-offs that define subscription infrastructure businesses, where reliability and predictable operations are part of the product.
The role is best suited to an engineering leader who remains close to system design and code while also aligning multiple stakeholders around a roadmap. It fits someone who enjoys ambiguity in platform-building, can translate database fundamentals into service-level decisions, and is motivated by long-horizon engineering problems rather than short-cycle application features.
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.
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.
Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake.
As a Senior Engineer Manager, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products
AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane and the orchestration/control plane required to deliver a managed service (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, and operational safety).
Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.
Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:
10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
5+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (and experience leading managers is a strong plus).
Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.
Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and building services with high availability and operational rigor.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries.
Strong hands-on technical ability; comfortable navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Postgres depth: experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator; strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs (consistency, performance, scaling limits, cost).
Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform.
Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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?
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