Engineering Manager (Query Execution Platform)

• We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake query processing team in Berlin, Germany
• The team is critical to Snowflake’s success, responsible for building new SQL features and customer-facing functionality, developing novel query optimization and query execution techniques for industry-leading performance, and building a database system that’s highly parallel, efficient and fault-tolerant
• Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of our highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprised, which comprises numerous cutting-edge technologies
• Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members in a competitive talent market
• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship, coaching and guidance
• Lead and participate in technical, design and product discussions relating to your team
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
• Collaborate with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing and project schedules, including teams across different time zones
• Effectively shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and respond to customer feedback and production issues
• Use your strong technical foundation to reliably deliver complex projects while maintaining a high-quality bar
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
• 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 and as a leader, with clear pathways for advancement
• 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 hundreds of millions of complex queries every day
• Play a key role in shaping the future of data processing and contributing to Snowflake’s innovation

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program- Outstanding written and oral English language skills, necessary for clear documentation and presentations
• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to handle complex technical challenges
• A demonstrated track record of successful recruiting and leading technical teams in a competitive talent market
• Rock-solid engineering fundamentals, with query processing experience (compile time and/or execution time) and related database technologies
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance optimization and schema design
• Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems like Hadoop or Spark
• Prior experience running database internal engineering teams, showcasing technical depth
• Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs, indicating project management skills
• German language skills, beneficial for collaborating with local teams and stakeholders
• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering management experience