Snowflake
Engineering Manager, Release Validation
US-WA-Bellevue · Mid
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About the role
- Our AI pilled engineers treat validation as a scalable, developer-first platform.
- Our customers are Snowflake engineers and their army of agents.
- How do Snowflake engineers keep their agents running autonomous for hours and days, landing quality PRs with human interventions?
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and focus on the customer.
- Own the validation platform. Be accountable for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and release validation pipeline..
- Cut down release blockers. Lead efforts to improve how failures are traced to their cause, filter out noise from infrastructure problems, and speed up triage so real regressions reach the owning team quickly.
- Drive AI and automation. Invest in AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing that remove manual work for engineers across Snowflake.
- Work across teams. Act as the main partner to Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages.
- Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority.
Benefits
- Improve test health across the company.
- Define and drive the multi-quarter vision for release validation: faster signals, fewer blockers, better test quality, and lower cost.
Company info
- Snowflake engineering takes pride in building highly reliable and scalable products.In http://products.In the era of autonomous AI agents and continuous deployment, a traditional testing model breaks down under massive PR volume.
- The Release Validation Team builds test frameworks that make continuous deployment safe, cost-efficient, and agent-friendly.
- They rely on layers of validation that agents can execute in high-fidelity production simulation.
- We give Snowflake the confidence to ship at speed without compromising
- Snowflake's core brand promise:
- extreme reliability.
- Improve test health across the company. Work with feature teams to reduce flaky, non-hermetic, duplicate, and low-value tests, and set standards and incentives that keep them healthy.
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