Snowflake
Senior Technical Program Manager - Capacity Planning
US-CA-Menlo Park, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own the capacity planning program end-to-end across multi-cloud infrastructure. This includes demand forecasting, resource modeling, and driving cross-functional alignment to meet growth and seasonal demand.
What you will do
- Own the capacity planning program end-to-end across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, and Cloud Provider teams
- Build and improve forecasting models and frameworks
- Establish governance and review cadences with engineering leadership
- Identify and mitigate capacity risks proactively
- Partner with engineering teams to understand workload characteristics and architecture changes
- Drive efficiency and optimization programs to reduce waste and improve utilization
- Develop dashboards, metrics, and reporting for leadership visibility
- Influence infrastructure strategy with data-driven recommendations
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity management, or a related discipline at a cloud-scale technology company
- Demonstrated experience managing programs across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts: compute, storage, networking, containerization, and resource orchestration
- Experience with demand forecasting, resource modeling, and data-driven decision-making at scale
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional programs spanning engineering, finance, and operations with VP/Director-level stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong program management fundamentals: dependency tracking, risk management, milestone governance, and stakeholder alignment
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure capacity planning at hyperscale (10K+ node deployments or equivalent)
- Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps principles
- Experience with data platforms, data warehousing, or database infrastructure
- Working knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
- Background in building or improving automated capacity planning systems and tooling
- Experience operating in a fast-growth, high-ambiguity environment where priorities shift quickly
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- ESPP
- Generous PTO
- Equity in the form of RSUs
About the company
Snowflake is one of the fastest-growing enterprise technology companies in the world. The company works on infrastructure that powers AI and data workloads at global scale.