Engineering Manager - Freepool

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. There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. 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. Snowflake’s free pools https://www.snowflake.com/en/engineering-blog/efficiency-at-snowflake-free-pool-management/ are pre-provisioned compute VMs that guarantee fast resume times and availability; they are mission-critical for customer experience in warehousing and related products. You will own these and drive the evolution of these for all compute at Snowflake ensuring that we meet cost, customer experience and availability expectations. 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. AS A MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL LEAD A TEAM OF TALENTED ENGINEERS IN: - Lead a team of talented engineers in - Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills - Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer. - Analyzing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solving them. - Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams - Understanding trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. - Ensuring 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. OUR IDEAL MANAGER WILL HAVE: - 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. - A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams. - Proven experience authoring roadmap documents and project plans. - Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills. - Track record of identifying and delivering creative solutions. - BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred. WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? - Build an industry-leading Cloud Data 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. - Learn about and contribute to: - Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily. - Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines. - Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com