Tech Lead/Manager, AI-Native Authoring

As a Tech Lead/manager You Will

• Own your team’s technical strategy and execution, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment.
• Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Serve as an AI bar raiser by continuously honing your team’s craft and workflows, driving toward fully automated and self-improving solutions.
• Serve as a key technical contributor and subject matter expert, setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices within the team.
• Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development, and grow a strong, diverse team through proactive hiring.
• Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the platform's availability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to translate user needs and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps.
• Lead the improvement of our engineering processes, tooling, and standards, focusing on efficiency and velocity.
• Partner effectively with other engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader platform.
• Build for scale, reliability, and high performance, and participate in the on-call rotation to keep a Tier-1 production service healthy.
• Drive high-impact initiatives that span our product areas and full tech stack, including golang and Python on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

• 9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production and full-stack development.
• 2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with a proactive, transparent working style.
• Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, is a plus.
• Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation on a routine basis.
• Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scale.
• Experience with backend services and distributed systems; familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure is a strong plus.
• Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of database internals and SQL is a plus.
• Passionate about building the best customer-facing products.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Additional information

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.

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