Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Technical Lead Manager role sits at a core layer of a modern SaaS platform: storage services that underpin multiple user-facing applications, including web and mobile experiences. Within a cloud data company context, that combination of platform engineering and product-adjacent enablement work reflects where many SaaS businesses are investing, namely improving reliability and developer leverage while supporting new AI-driven product surfaces.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position offers durable experience in the mechanics of operating shared infrastructure at scale. Ownership of technical strategy, availability, performance, and maintainability aligns with the kinds of responsibilities that translate across SaaS platforms, especially as organizations standardize on cloud primitives, distributed data stores, and rigorous engineering practices. The remit also includes building self-serve tooling, a valuable angle for leaders who want to amplify productivity beyond a single team.
The role is best suited to an engineering leader who remains hands-on, enjoys deep design reviews, and can balance long-term architecture with delivery. It will appeal to those who like partnering with product counterparts, setting technical standards, and mentoring engineers while staying close to production systems and operational outcomes in a cloud environment.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
About the team
The Apps & Experiences Platform team is powering systems and services for all our user facing apps including Snowsight, Snowflake Intelligence, and new mobile apps. Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools, infrastructure, and AI tooling that bring such products to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of building & managing platform infrastructure, and building AI self-serve tools to support the platform and its developer’s needs. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth AI data cloud company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level.
AS TECHNICAL LEAD & MANAGER FOR APPS & EXPERIENCES STORAGE TEAM, YOU WILL:
Own the storage team’s technical strategy and execution, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment.
Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability.
Serve as a key technical contributor and subject matter expert, setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices within the team.
Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development, and grow a strong, diverse team through proactive hiring.
Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the platform's availability, maintainability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to translate user needs and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps.
Lead the improvement of our engineering processes, tooling, and standards, focusing on efficiency and velocity.
Partner effectively with other engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader platform.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WITH:
9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production.
2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Experience building and managing high throughput systems with Redis, Postgres, and blob stores (e.g. S3, Azure blob, and/or Google cloud storage).
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, is a plus.
Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation on a routine basis.
BS/MS/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?
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