Director of Engineering - Traffic & Networking

The role

You will lead the Traffic & Networking group responsible for ingress, egress, domain management, and internal networking layers. You will define the strategic roadmap and guide teams in building software to automate and scale networking across multiple cloud providers.

What you will do

• Define the roadmap for Snowflake’s networking foundation and execute complex plans.
• Guide teams in building software solutions to automate and scale networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Lead projects from initial idea through design and implementation.
• Collaborate with teams in the US, Ireland, Poland, and beyond.
• Provide technical expertise in high-performance, security, and cloud networking abstraction.
• Recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team.
• Manage career development of reports through coaching and mentorship.
• Shift resources dynamically to respond to production issues and customer needs.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders
• 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
• Deep experience working at scale within a multi-tenant or multi-single-tenant SaaS model
• Excellent collaboration skills
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company seeks AI-native thinkers to redefine how work gets done.