Tech Lead/Manager, AI-Native Authoring

The role

You will own technical strategy and execution for the AI-Native Authoring team. You will lead engineers in building data science and AI development tools including Snowflake Notebooks and VS Code extensions.

What you will do

• Own team technical strategy and execution from design to deployment
• Provide technical oversight through design reviews and architecture discussions
• Serve as an AI bar raiser by driving automated and self-improving solutions
• Act as a technical contributor and subject matter expert
• Mentor and coach engineers and grow a diverse team through hiring
• Define team plans and deliverables while ensuring platform availability and performance
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate user needs into technical roadmaps
• Lead improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration
• Participate in the on-call rotation for a Tier-1 production service

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production and full-stack development
• 2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills
• Strong hands-on skills to drill deep into complex system design and implementation
• Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, API design patterns, security, performance, and scale
• Experience with backend services and distributed systems
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments
• Knowledge of database internals and SQL

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to accelerate growth.