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.