Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP

The role

You will lead engineering teams and leaders building core transactional database technology and cloud infrastructure. You will define architecture and roadmaps, grow the organization, and drive technology from design through production.

What you will do

• Set technical and execution strategy for Snowflake's OLTP platform.
• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, developing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Drive adoption of AI and agentic development practices.
• Drive architecture and technical decisions in transactions, concurrency control, storage, and scalability.
• Ensure operational readiness and reliability of mission-critical database services.
• Drive trade-offs across consistency, latency, throughput, availability, scalability, durability, security, and cost.
• Lead major initiatives from design through implementation, launch, and production operation.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and cross-functional leaders to define priorities and align roadmaps.
• Recruit exceptional engineers and engineering leaders.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years experience in database internals, OLTP databases, or distributed storage systems.
• 8+ years leading engineering teams, including multiple teams and managers.
• Deep experience with transactions, concurrency, consistency, replication, recovery, storage, and database performance.
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development and its application across the engineering lifecycle.
• Experience operating mission-critical systems with high standards for availability, durability, observability, operational safety, and incident response.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong hands-on technical ability, including navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
• Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including highly available services.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with OLTP database internals or Postgres internals.

About the company

Snowflake is expanding the boundaries of the Data Cloud to support mission-critical transactional workloads. The company aims to deliver OLTP capabilities with the performance, reliability, simplicity, and scale customers expect.