Snowflake
Director of Engineering - Traffic & Networking
US-CA-Menlo Park · Director
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About the role
- 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.
- At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Responsibilities
- Scale Infrastructure: Guide your team in building software solutions that automate and scale networking across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Drive Innovation: Lead projects from initial idea through design and implementation, collaborating with teams in the US, Ireland, Poland, and beyond.
- Build the Team: Actively recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team of industry veterans and rising stars.
- Impact: You're actively evolving a network architecture, building new observability capabilities, modernizing legacy infrastructure, and designing the next-generation connectivity model across multiple clouds.
- Builder's Culture: We ship our own proxy infrastructure, our own service discovery, our own network automation. This is a build role for someone who wants to own the full traffic stack.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
- Distributed Systems Expertise:
- Proven track record in designing systems and managing large-scale production infrastructure with a focus on networking, compute, or storage
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud service providers.
Compensation
- 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 http://careers.snowflake.com
Benefits
- Set the Strategic Vision: Define the roadmap for Snowflake's networking foundation and be accountable for the execution of complex plans and deliverables.
- Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Company info
- Actively recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team of industry veterans and rising stars.
- Be responsible for the career development of your reports through continuous coaching and mentorship.
- Operational Excellence:
- Shift resources dynamically to respond to production issues and customer needs, ensuring high levels of reliability.
- We are looking for an exceptional leader who views infrastructure through a product development lens.
- Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
- 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.
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