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About the Role

The Apps & Experiences Platform team is seeking a Technical Lead & Manager to own the storage team’s technical strategy and execution. This role involves crafting innovative backend services, features, tools, infrastructure, and AI tooling for user-facing apps like Snowsight and new mobile apps. You will be responsible for building and managing platform infrastructure and AI self-serve tools, ensuring the platform is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable.

Responsibilities

Own the storage team’s technical strategy and execution, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment.
Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability.
Serve as a key technical contributor and subject matter expert, setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices within the team.
Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development, and grow a strong, diverse team through proactive hiring.
Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the platform's availability, maintainability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to translate user needs and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps.
Lead the improvement of our engineering processes, tooling, and standards, focusing on efficiency and velocity.
Partner effectively with other engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader platform.

Requirements

9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production.
2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Experience building and managing high throughput systems with Redis, Postgres, and blob stores (e.g. S3, Azure blob, and/or Google cloud storage).
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation on a routine basis.

Skills

Redis
Postgres
Blob stores (e.g. S3, Azure blob, and/or Google cloud storage)
Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Experience Level

9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production
2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams

Education Level

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

About the Company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
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.
We are a high growth AI data cloud company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level.
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.