Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Software Engineering Manager for the Metadata team in Berlin. You will drive innovation and guide a dynamic team to make a significant impact in core infrastructure Metadata services. The role offers a mix of team leadership / people management and technical decision making. 

Our mission is to provide low-latency and highly consistent access to Snowflake’s metadata in a secure way. We keep data safe through geo replication and offer immutable snapshots over long periods of time. Most prominently, we build high-scale APIs that power different types of workload from analytics warehouse and Unistore up to AI and container functions. Almost any internal service interfaces with Metadata APIs. Therefore, our services run at a large scale, supporting trillions of requests per day. Additionally, we own the representation of Metadata to users through the means of Infoschema, SHOW commands and Snowflake APIs.

Link to article about Metadata team

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER, YOU WILL:

Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables

Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed

Drive team projects from conception, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams

Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues

Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality

Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing

Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching

Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:

Understanding of Data Infrastructure systems and architectures built on Public Cloud platforms.

10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with prior experience in building or maintaining distributed systems

4+ years of leadership experience, managing software development and/or automating large scale systems/processes.

Ability to translate business strategy into action.

Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Comfortable working across multiple teams and interacting with customers

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

WHY BE AN ENGINEERING MANAGER IN METADATA?

This is an excellent opportunity to:

Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an industry-leading data management system that customers love

Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a leader

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

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 do you want to make your impact?