Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Tech Lead Manager role sits in a core SaaS concern that rarely gets spotlighted: the internal systems that make large-scale cloud products shippable. By owning the System Under Test platform, the position influences how engineers validate changes locally and in CI, tying developer experience directly to reliability and release confidence. In a mature, infrastructure-heavy SaaS environment, that mandate becomes a strategic lever because testing speed, fidelity, and cost all shape product iteration.
For a long-term SaaS career, this is strong leverage-building work. It develops judgment in setting SLOs for internal platforms, using operational metrics to guide roadmap decisions, and modernizing legacy systems toward containerized, composable foundations. The cross-functional surface area also builds fluency in aligning platform priorities with product engineering needs, a transferable skill set across cloud data platforms and other multi-team SaaS organizations.
The role fits an engineering leader who wants to remain technically anchored while taking clear ownership for direction and outcomes. It will suit someone comfortable with ambiguity, stakeholder negotiation, and the tradeoffs between platform stability and delivery cadence, especially in environments where CI, Kubernetes-era infrastructure, and incident learning loops are part of daily work.
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.
We are hiring a talented Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead Snowflake’s System Under Test (SUT) team, responsible for evolving how Snowflake engineers test the Snowflake product locally and at scale in CI. The SUT empowers Snowflake engineers by delivering a reliable, low-latency and cost-efficient developer experience across a high-growth, high-demand surface area.
As the TLM for SUT, you will lead a small and highly technical team at the intersection of CI, developer infrastructure, and product engineering. You will set direction, drive execution, and partner broadly across Engineering Systems and product teams to deliver a more reliable, faster, and more maintainable test platform for Snowflake’s engineers.
In this role, you will:
Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.
Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows.
Drive measurable improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost, using clear SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics to guide decisions and raise the bar on execution.
Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain, shaping architecture and guiding the evolution from legacy systems to a composable, containerized platform.
Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.
Our ideal candidate will have:
10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
1+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.
Strong systems thinking and comfort working across distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.
A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.
Bonus points for experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.
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
