Engineering Manager - Freepool

About Snowflake

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 Role

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. Our team is called the Freepool team, one of the core compute infrastructure teams at Snowflake for both internal and external customers. We are actively looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow this team. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers in solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meeting the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance
• Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
• Be comfortable with delegating decisions for part of what is under your leadership to others
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, and reach out to others for assistance as needed
• Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
• Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision making

Qualifications

• 9+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• 2+ years experience in managing a group of junior and senior engineers
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Background in capacity management, resource orchestration, or cluster scheduling