Engineering Manager, Release Validation

Highlights

• Lead validation platform making continuous deployment safe and cost-efficient.
• Build AI-driven failure analysis to remove manual work for engineers.
• Give Snowflake confidence to ship fast without compromising reliability.

Ideal candidate

Data-driven engineering leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and cares deeply about developer productivity and reliability. You combine low-ego collaboration with AI-native curiosity to scale validation for an agentic enterprise.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages
• Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms, ideally for complex distributed systems
• Strong technical background with depth to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn respect of senior engineers
• Solid grasp of test strategy: regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating
• Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority
• Data-driven leadership style with measurable goals and metrics to prioritize and show impact
• Strong communication skills explaining complex technical tradeoffs to engineers and executives
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience