Senior Engineering Manager - Agentic Analytics

About the Position

Senior Engineering Manager - Agentic Analytics

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Snowflake, you will be expected to:

• Drive the evolution of core database and SQL capabilities to serve emerging AI and agentic workloads alongside traditional analytics
• Lead and grow a team of talented engineers in the design, development, and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system
• Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team
• Collaborate with other local and global teams and leaders across the Engineering and Product Management organizations
• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

Requirements

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services)
• 5+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals (experience leading managers is a strong plus)
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience is highly preferred but not required
• Exposure to AI, ML, or agent-driven workloads and how they consume data platforms
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

Nice to Have

Bonus points for experience with the following:

• Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems, e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.
• Prior experience running SQL database engineering teams
• Proven experience authoring product roadmaps, preparing and reviewing project design and test plan documents, and managing projects with JIRA

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $304K – $437K
• Opportunity to shape the future of data management systems
• Work with an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars
• Grow both technically and as a team leader

About the Company

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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