Senior Engineering Manager - Query Execution Platform

Location: Berlin, Germany Category: Engineering Req ID: REQ15637

JOB DESCRIPTION

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. There is only one AI Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the AI Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. In fact, Snowflake processes over 6 billion queries every day, supporting countless businesses in making data-driven decisions. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake query processing team in Berlin, Germany. The team is critical to Snowflake's success, responsible for building new SQL features and customer-facing functionality, developing novel query optimization and query execution techniques for industry-leading performance, and building a database system that's highly parallel, efficient and fault-tolerant.

AS AN SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

• Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of our highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system
• Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members in a competitive talent market
• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship, coaching and guidance
• Lead and participate in technical, design and product discussions relating to your team
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
• Collaborate with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing and project schedules, including teams across different time zones
• Effectivelyshift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and respond to customer feedback and production issues
• Use your strong technical foundation to reliably deliver complex projects while maintaininga high-quality bar
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• A demonstrated track record of successful recruiting and leading technical teams in a competitive talent market
• Rock-solid engineering fundamentals, with query processing experience (compile time and/or execution time) and related database technologies
• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to handle complex technical challenges
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills, necessary for clear documentation and presentations

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance optimization and schema design
• Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems like Hadoop or Spark
• Prior experience running database internal engineering teams, showcasing technical depth
• Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs, indicating project management skills
• German language skills, beneficial for collaborating with local teams and stakeholders

WHY BE A QUERY PROCESSING MANAGER IN BERLIN?

As a leader in our team you will:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars, building an industry-leading cloud data platform that customers love
• Take charge of your own career  this role will push you to grow both technically and as a leader,with clear pathways for advancement
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel,robust,and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customersand hundreds of millions of complex queries every day
• Play a key role in shaping the future of data processingand contributing to Snowflake's innovation

Snowflake is growing fast,and were scaling our team to help enableand 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 themselvesand Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States,please visitthe job posting onthe Snowflake Careers Site for salaryand benefits information: careers.snowflake.com Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Location

Berlin Germany

Remote Work

No explicit mention of remote work available.

Employment Type

Not explicitly stated.

Skills Mentioned

• Software engineering (12+ years experience)
• Engineering management (5+ years experience)
• Query processing (compile time/execution time)
• Database technologies
• SQL
• Performance optimization
• Schema design
• Database internals
• Large-scale data processing systems (Hadoop or Spark)
• Recruiting & leading technical teams
• Problem solving & troubleshooting
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Written & oral English proficiency
• Project management (roadmap documents/project plans/RCAs)
• German language skills (bonus)

Experience Level

Senior level (Senior Engineering Manager)

Salary Information

No specific salary information provided; directs US candidates to careers.snowflake.com for salary info.

Application URL

Not explicitly provided; candidates instructed: "All Snowflake candidates should apply directly via the careers page." Also referenced: [careers.snowflake.com](https://careers.snowflake.com)