Senior Manager - Engineering Systems AI Developer Experience

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and grow the ES AI DevEx team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.

• Deliver the vision and roadmap for transforming the SDLC for all Snowflake engineers.

• Drive measurable improvements in code review latency, ensure Snowflake developers can use the latest harnesses and models, and create the golden paths that agentic codebases are built upon.

• Act as an agent of clarity in a space that is moving fast, making high quality decisions quickly by keeping up with the latest developments in the industry.

• Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience

• 5+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with the latest AI tools, particularly in the productivity space.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.

• A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.

• Bonus points for experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.