Senior Engineering Manager - Query Execution Platform

About Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI‑native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high‑trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low‑ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast‑moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

There is only one AI Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the AI Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near‑unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. In fact, Snowflake processes over 6 billion queries every day, supporting countless businesses in making data‑driven decisions. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.

Role Summary

We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake query processing team in Berlin, Germany. The team is critical to Snowflake's success, responsible for:

• Building new SQL features and customer‑facing functionality
• Developing novel query optimization and query execution techniques for industry‑leading performance
• Building a database system that is highly parallel, efficient, and fault‑tolerant

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development, and support of our highly‑parallel and fault‑tolerant database system
• Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new members in a competitive talent market
• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and guidance
• Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to your team
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
• Collaborate with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules, including teams across different time zones
• Effectively shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and respond to customer feedback and production issues
• Use your strong technical foundation to reliably deliver complex projects while maintaining a high‑quality bar
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision‑making

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• A demonstrated track record of successful recruiting and leading technical teams in a competitive talent market
• Rock‑solid engineering fundamentals, with query processing experience (compile time and/or execution time) and related database technologies
• Extremely strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to handle complex technical challenges
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills, necessary for clear documentation and presentations

Bonus Points

• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance optimization, and schema design
• Background in database internals or large‑scale data processing systems like Hadoop or Spark
• Prior experience running database internal engineering teams, showcasing technical depth
• Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs, indicating project management skills
• German language skills, beneficial for collaborating with local teams and stakeholders

Why Be a Query Processing Manager in Berlin?

As a leader in our team you will:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars, building an industry‑leading cloud data platform that customers love
• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow both technically and as a leader, with clear pathways for advancement
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust, and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day
• Play a key role in shaping the future of data processing and contributing to Snowflake's innovation

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How to Apply

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