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. The Snowflake Postgres team https://www.snowflake.com/en/product/features/postgres/ 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 data-plane 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 building services with high availability and operational rigor. - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries. - Strong hands-on technical ability; comfortable navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation. - BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. - Postgres depth: experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator; strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs (consistency, performance, scaling limits, cost). OR - Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals. WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? - Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform. - Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more! - Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor. - Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the com