Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP

Highlights

• Expand Snowflake Data Cloud to mission-critical transactional workloads at scale.
• Define architecture and roadmap for core transactional database platform.
• Drive reliability for mission-critical database services meeting durability goals.

Ideal candidate

Low-ego, AI-native engineering leader energized by hard database problems and building high-performing teams. You thrive in fast-moving environments and redefine how work gets done.

Requirements

• 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 across the engineering lifecycle
• Experience operating mission-critical systems with high standards for availability, durability and operational safety
• Strong hands-on technical ability navigating complex codebases and system design
• Experience with OLTP database internals or Postgres internals
• Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure and/or GCP, including highly available services
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to drive alignment across orgs