We're hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform's reliability, correctness, and performance. Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success OUR IDEAL MANAGER WILL HAVE : • Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments • 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems. • Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. • Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go. • Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers. • Excellent interpersonal communication skills. • Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices. BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING : • Building at-scale telemetry pipeline or query replay pipeline • Building or testing database query engine • Operationalizing Machine Learning models • Solid understanding of shipping end to end customer experiences across clients including browsers, apps and drivers • Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, security and scalability. • A track record of leading distributed technical teams 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. 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?