Engineering Manager - Snowtrail

We're hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform's reliability, correctness, and performance.

Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success

- Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments

- 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.

- Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

- Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers.

- Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.

- Building at-scale telemetry pipeline or query replay pipeline

- Solid understanding of shipping end to end customer experiences across clients including browsers, apps and drivers

- Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, security and scalability.