Senior Engineering Manager - Postgres

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.

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.

Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake.

As a Senior Engineer Manager, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products





AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

- Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane and the orchestration/control plane required to deliver a managed service (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, and operational safety).

- Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.

- Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.

- Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.

- Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.

- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.

- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.


OUR IDEAL SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:

- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).

- 5+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (and experience leading managers is a strong plus).

- Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.

- Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and bui