We’re looking for an exceptional Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake Service Runtime team in Berlin, Germany. The charter of the team is to build the elastic, high-performance computing platform that underpins the diverse workloads running on the Snowflake Data Cloud. The team works on problems involving large scale distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, metadata storage, cloud infrastructure, and more. 

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

  • Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables
  • Drive team projects from idea formulation, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams
  • Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues
  • Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality, performance, and security
  • Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
  • Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing
  • Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams in Berlin and world-wide

 

AS A LEADER ON OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

  • Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an industry-leading data management system that customers love
  • Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a leader
  • Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and billions of complex queries every day

WHY BE A  SERVICE TEAM ENGINEERING MANAGER IN BERLIN?
As a leader in our team you will:

  • Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an industry-leading cloud data platform  that customers love
  • Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a leader
  • Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services may thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day.

 

 

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience
  • Proven track record of recruiting, hiring, leading and growing technical teams
  • Rock solid engineering fundamentals with distributed systems experience 
  • Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed
  • Experience in a SaaS environment - defining and delivering on service availability and quality SLOs 
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Comfortable working across multiple teams/ time zones and interacting with customers
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

 

Snowflake

Berlin
+3000

Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud—a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud.