Senior Engineering Manager - Data Lake
Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue
About this role
## Senior Engineering Manager — Data Lake (Snowflake) **Location:** Bellevue, WA, USA (on-site) **Build the future of the AI Data Cloud.** Snowflake is hiring a dynamic and accomplished **Engineering Manager** to join the **Data Lake** team. In this role, you’ll lead and expand a talented team building on cutting-edge open source data lake technologies—driving innovation, fostering collaboration with the open source community, and delivering robust, scalable solutions for enterprise customers. --- ## What you’ll do - Lead a team of high-performing engineers designing, developing, and supporting **highly distributed and scalable data platforms**. - Focus on optimizing and enabling workloads on open table/catalog formats such as **Apache Iceberg** and **Apache Polaris (incubating)**. - Lead and participate in technical design and roadmap discussions across **Query Processing, Metadata Management, Performance, Scalability, and Open Source Interoperability**. - Own and grow a strategic, emerging part of Snowflake’s business in **Data Lake** and **Data Analytics** workloads. - Drive team growth through the full lifecycle: **recruiting, hiring, mentorship, coaching**, and identifying development opportunities. - Partner across Engineering and Product on planning and execution rhythms (annual/quarterly planning, staffing, schedules, resource allocation). - Delegate effectively and leverage **Senior/Principal engineers** to maximize team impact. - Translate product requirements into engineering work and set a high bar for quality and long-term alignment. - Foster a healthy, diverse team culture. --- ## What you bring - **7+ years** experience designing and building **distributed data systems**, especially database systems internals. - **3+ years** software engineering management experience. - Proven track record recruiting, leading, and growing high-performing technical teams. - Experience building enterprise-grade software: **reliable, secure, trustworthy** platforms at scale. - Strong problem-solving and CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems). - Experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs. - Fluency in **Java or C++**. - Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed environment and mentor junior engineers. - Excellent written and oral English communication. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent. - Ability to work **on-site** in **Bellevue, WA** (or **Menlo Park, CA**). --- ## Bonus (nice to have) - Experience with Apache open source projects and open data formats: **Parquet, ORC, Avro**. - Experience with open table formats: **Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake**. - Modern data analytics technologies: **Spark, Trino, Presto** (including query processing). - Data catalog/metadata/governance platforms: **Unity, Glue, Nessie, Gravitino**. - Distributed storage platforms: **AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, Google Cloud Storage**. - Experience designing and implementing query processing systems. --- ## Why join Snowflake? - Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars. - Take ownership of a fast-moving, critical area for the company—at the forefront of Snowflake’s **open source interoperability roadmap**. - Strong support for career growth, both technically and as a leader. **Apply:** For U.S. roles, visit the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: **careers.snowflake.com**
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