Senior Engineering Manager - Postgres

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres data-plane 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.

Qualifications

• 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). OR Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.

Why Join Us

• 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.