3-5 years of experience in hiring and developing engineers
Experience with large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure for distributed systems
Strong technical background for design reviews and architecture tradeoffs
Solid understanding of test strategy including regression and workload testing
Proven ability to drive cross-team collaboration and influence without authority
Data-driven leadership with measurable goals and metrics
Excellent communication skills for technical discussions with diverse audiences
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
Lead and grow the engineering team through hiring and mentoring
Set strategy and roadmap for release validation initiatives
Own the validation platform's reliability and efficiency
Improve test health by collaborating with feature teams
Reduce release blockers by enhancing failure tracing and triage processes
Drive AI and automation to minimize manual work for engineers
Collaborate with Release Engineering and engineering leaders on quality
Benefits
Opportunity to work in a fast-growing company
Culture of ownership and technical excellence
Focus on innovation and challenging ordinary thinking
Support for professional development and career growth
Collaborative work environment with cross-team partnerships
Full Job Description
About the Team
Snowflake engineering takes pride in building highly reliable and scalable products.In the era of autonomous AI agents and continuous deployment, a traditional testing model breaks down under massive PR volume. Our AI pilled engineers treat validation as a scalable, developer-first platform. The Release Validation Team builds test frameworks that make continuous deployment safe, cost-efficient, and agent-friendly. Our customers are Snowflake engineers and their army of agents. How do Snowflake engineers keep their agents running autonomous for hours and days, landing quality PRs with human interventions? They rely on layers of validation that agents can execute in high-fidelity production simulation.
We give Snowflake the confidence to ship at speed without compromising Snowflake's core brand promise: extreme reliability.
In this role, you will:
Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and focus on the customer.
Set strategy and roadmap. Define and drive the multi-quarter vision for release validation: faster signals, fewer blockers, better test quality, and lower cost.
Own the validation platform. Be accountable for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and release validation pipeline..
Improve test health across the company. Work with feature teams to reduce flaky, non-hermetic, duplicate, and low-value tests, and set standards and incentives that keep them healthy.
Cut down release blockers. Lead efforts to improve how failures are traced to their cause, filter out noise from infrastructure problems, and speed up triage so real regressions reach the owning team quickly.
Drive AI and automation. Invest in AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing that remove manual work for engineers across Snowflake.
Work across teams. Act as the main partner to Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality
What We're Looking For
3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages.
Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms, ideally for complex distributed systems.
A strong technical background, with enough depth to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
A solid grasp of test strategy: regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating.
Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority.
A data-driven leadership style: you set measurable goals and use metrics to prioritize and show impact.
Strong communication skills, including explaining complex technical tradeoffs to both engineers and executives.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
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.
How do you want to make your impact?
About Snowflake Computing
Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. The company provides a data platform that allows customers to store and analyze data using cloud-based infrastructure. Snowflake's platform is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, allowing customers to easily add or remove computing resources as needed. The company's customers include a wide range of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake has received significant funding from investors and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
