Senior Engineering Manager (Berlin, Germany)

Senior Engineering Manager

Company Overview

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.

Snowflake is proud to be the Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 and Team USA. Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.

Job Summary

The mission of the Snowflake Streaming team is to empower customers to ingest, transform, and serve their data using real-time and near real-time pipelines within Snowflake. Guided by Snowflake's "no knobs" philosophy, we develop infrastructure that manages orchestration, performance, self-healing, security, and privacy so that customers can focus on their business logic. Leveraging our team's extensive background in building streaming systems, we create infrastructure that is simple to operate and adaptable to diverse business requirements. With Dynamic Tables for declarative data pipelines , and Snowpipe Streaming high performance architecture we have an outstanding foundation with strong customer adoption. Now it is time for the next generation of innovation. We are seeking a talented experienced Senior Engineering Manager for our Streaming team in Berlin, as we scale the team for the next phase of growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and drive projects from idea formulation to design and implementation.
• Drive great partnership with the product management team.
• Set team strategy and be accountable for team plans and deliverables.
• Grow and build a strong, healthy and diverse team through hiring, mentoring and coaching.
• Collaborate with other engineering and cross functional teams.
• Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams.
• Enable the data science organization, business groups, engineering teams to build comprehensive analytics quickly and effectively.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on software development experience, including experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on delivering impactful results.
• Prior experience driving company initiatives and growth of the business in collaboration with product managers, marketing, sales, etc.
• A background in SQL engines, especially in SQL compilation and/or streaming systems.
• Demonstrated track record of managing operational excellence to ensure service availability, reliability and scalable performance.
• Proven track record of recruiting, hiring, leading and growing technical teams.
• BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Location

Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Remote: False

Employment Type

Full Time

Application Process

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? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com