Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager – PostgreSQL

at Snowflake

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager – PostgreSQL
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $264,000 - $379,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Postgres
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Menlo Park, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading Postgres service development for cloud-native applications. Driving technical leadership and collaboration to build scalable, reliable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane 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.

Requirements

• 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 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.

Benefits

• 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.