Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP

AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER – OLTP AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Set technical and execution strategy for key areas of Snowflake's OLTP platform, translating product goals into architecture, roadmaps, and team plans.

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, developing managers and senior technical leaders while fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and execution.

• Drive adoption of AI and agentic development practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and productivity across the software development lifecycle.

• Drive architecture and technical decisions in areas such as transactions, concurrency control, low-latency query processing, storage, indexing, compaction, recovery, replication, and scalability.

• Ensure operational readiness and reliability of mission-critical database services, meeting customer commitments for durability, availability, performance, and security through automation, observability, and operational safety.

• Drive trade-offs across consistency, latency, throughput, availability, scalability, durability, security, and cost.

• Lead major initiatives from design through implementation, launch, and production operation.

• Partner with Engineering, Product, and cross-functional leaders to define priorities, align roadmaps, plan staffing, and coordinate execution across organizational boundaries.

• Recruit exceptional engineers and engineering leaders, and develop existing team members into larger technical and leadership roles.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years experience in database internals, OLTP databases, or distributed storage systems.

• 8+ years leading engineering teams, including multiple teams and managers.

• Deep experience with transactions, concurrency, consistency, replication, recovery, storage, and database performance.

• Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development and its application across the engineering lifecycle.

• Experience operating mission-critical systems with high standards for availability, durability, observability, operational safety, and incident response.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive alignment and influence across organizational boundaries.

• Strong hands-on technical ability, including navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.

• Experience with OLTP database internals or Postgres internals.

• Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including highly available services.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.