Engineering Manager - Openflow

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential - and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology - and careers - to the next level.

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER ON THE SNOWFLAKE OPENFLOW TEAM, YOU WILL:

* Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers building Openflow's control plane, data plane, and connectors-the core of Snowflake's open, extensible, and secure data integration platform for real-time, bi-directional data movement.

* Translate product strategy into an executable engineering roadmap for your area, partnering closely with PM, TPM, and other stakeholders to plan, sequence, and deliver impactful features and reliability improvements.

* Organize and run the team for fast, high-quality delivery, ensuring engineers are working on the right problems, managing scope and trade-offs, and keeping quality, reliability, and operability standards high.

* Own your area in production: stay on top of reliability, performance, and support for your services and connectors, lead responses to incidents and escalations, and drive postmortems and follow-up work that continuously improves our platform.

* Manage technical debt and support burden intentionally, maintaining a clear view of code health, test coverage, regression patterns, and support costs-and balancing these against new feature work.

* Mentor and develop engineers across IC1-IC4 levels, giving clear, actionable feedback; helping them set growth plans; and providing the right mix of autonomy and support so they can succeed and advance.

* Have the hard conversations when needed, addressing underperformance, misalignment with Snowflake values, and behavior that undermines team health-with empathy, clarity, and follow-through.

* Hire and retain exceptional talent, effectively representing Snowflake and Openflow to candidates, closing strong engineers (including those with competing offers), and building a diverse, inclusive team.

* Model Snowflake's values and strong engineering leadership, creating a culture where people feel safe to speak up, collaborate across functions and time zones, and focus on what's best for customers and for Snowflake as a whole.

* Contribute hands-on when appropriate, using solid coding and design skills at the IC1-IC4 level to review designs and code, unblock the team on complex technical issues, and maintain deep enough context to make sound technical decisions.

OUR IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:

* Proven experience managing a team  10 engineers delivering backend, platform, or data infrastructure, ideally in a high-scale, cloud-native environment.

* Strong technical background in distributed systems or data platforms, with prior hands-on experience designing, building, and operating services involving reliability, performance, and scalability trade-offs.

* Demonstrated ability to grow organizational capacity:

* Mentoring engineers across junior and senior levels, supporting both day-to-day execution and long-term career development.

* Proactively spotting areas where people need help and addressing them early through coaching, support, or structural changes.

* Keeping team health and morale high, especially through ambiguity and change.

* Track record of effective product development and execution:

* Translating product requirements into clear technical plans and milestones.

* Partnering closely with PM/TPM/Security on quarterly planning, tracking, and feedback loops.

* Raising risks early-schedules, reliability, scope, or design-and course-correcting with stakeholders.

* Deep sense of ownership for an area of the product, including:

* Understanding and managing technical debt, test gaps, and regression patterns.

* Knowing the support profile of your features (incidents, Sev1s, escalations) and driving it down over time.

* Working toward clear success metrics for reliability, performance, and adoption-and pushing to improve them.

* Leadership behaviors aligned with Snowflake's values:

* Putting customers and team success first; operating with integrity, openness, and respect.

* Being accessible, approachable, and emotionally intelligent, creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued.

* Stepping up in crises-customer escalations, production incidents, security issues-to lead investigation, mitigation, communication, and long-term fixes.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working across multiple teams and time zones, and able to explain complex technical and trade-off decisions to diverse audiences.

* Experience hiring and closing strong engineering talent, including selling the opportunity and inspiring candidates to join.

* BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience as a senior IC and/or manager in high-scale engineering teams; prior experience as a Staff/Principal-level engineer is a strong plus.

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