Senior Engineering Manager - Observability at Snowflake

Menlo Park, California, United States

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$264,000 – $379,500Compensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Technology, Cloud ComputingIndustries

Requirements

Experience leading large software teams that have delivered complex, impactful products
Passion for building and running distributed systems in a production environment
Proven track record of effective people management, leadership, and mentoring
Skilled at working collaboratively across different functions and remote teams
Appetite for ensuring systems are observable, providing insights for engineers to understand and validate changes to their software
Committed to fostering good engineering practices like fast iterative development, testing, continuous integration, and continuous build/test/release automation
Expert knowledge of modern observability practices (preferred)
Proven ability to collaborate with Technical Program Managers and Architects on the design, development, and rollout of highly technical observability initiatives (preferred)
Deep knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, and alerts, and how to use this data to help developers and operators make quick decisions (preferred)
Experience with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, including service discovery, deployments, monitoring, and load balancing (preferred)
Experience with development and deployment in hosted cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP (preferred)

Responsibilities

Lead the Vision & Strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to drive the Observability vision and shape the product roadmap
Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing engineers building a state-of-the-art, cloud-based environment; recruit and nurture new talent
Collaboration & Cross-functional Work: Work across the organization and with different functions to deliver high-quality products, including collaborating with design and engineering directors, managers, and architects to drive excellence
Drive Excellence: Promote data-driven decision-making using information collected across the Snowflake stack to ensure user needs are met; develop APIs, infrastructure, tools, and training to provide engineers with deeper insights into application performance and service health
Operational Management: Balance strategic and operational needs, from pitching ideas and negotiating trade-offs to coordinating resources; present core service performance metrics and health in operational meetings to discuss ongoing system improvements

Skills

Distributed Systems

Observability

Team Leadership

Product Roadmap

Cloud Infrastructure

APIs

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Recruiting

Mentoring

Operational Management

Snowflake

Data management and analytics platform

About Snowflake

Snowflake provides a platform called the AI Data Cloud that helps organizations manage and analyze their data. This platform allows users to store and process large amounts of data efficiently, offering services like data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, and data sharing. Snowflake's system works by uniting data from different sources, enabling secure sharing and performing various types of analytics. What sets Snowflake apart from its competitors is its ability to operate seamlessly across multiple public clouds, allowing users to access their data from anywhere. The company's goal is to help businesses leverage their data for better decision-making by providing a flexible subscription-based service that scales according to their needs.

Bellevue, WashingtonHeadquarters

2012Year Founded

$1,341.3MTotal Funding

IPOCompany Stage

Data & Analytics, Enterprise Software, AI & Machine LearningIndustries

5,001-10,000Employees

Benefits

We've got your back - We offer comprehensive health insurance plans, health savings accounts, robust retirement plans, and generous life and disability insurance.

A Balanced Lifestyle - All Snowflakes have access to our weekly online lunch and learns, virtual workout classes, and ergonomic work-from-home equipment. We offer on-demand mental health and wellness programs to support our employees and their families.

Your People Matter - Help offset the cost of growing your family with our fertility benefits and family planning resources. Count on our generous time-off and various leave plans for you to rest, refuel, and sustain a great work-life balance.

Global Snowflake Team - No matter where you are in the world, we will get you connected and supported with a work-from-home setup.

Treat Yourself - Personalize your Snowflake benefits by tapping into our employee discounts and pre-tax selections.

Invest In Your Future - Eligible employees enjoy new hire equity, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and a quarterly bonus or commission program.

Risks

Integration challenges from Datavolo acquisition may disrupt operations and customer service.

Increased competition from Mistral AI could challenge Snowflake's market position.

Convertible senior notes pricing may increase financial pressure if market conditions worsen.

Differentiation

Snowflake offers a unified platform for diverse data workloads, unlike traditional solutions.

The AI Data Cloud enables near-unlimited scale and performance for data mobilization.

Snowflake's seamless multi-cloud experience ensures efficient data operations across locations.

Upsides

Acquisition of Datavolo enhances Snowflake's open data integration capabilities.

Investment in Metaplane boosts AI-driven data quality solutions for Snowflake users.

Snowflake Ventures' investment in Hex expands accessibility of data tools to non-technical users.

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