Place of work: Warsaw (hybrid model)

As the Manager of the Platform Services team, you will lead and expand our distributed team, aiming to provide highly available, reliable and scalable tools/services infrastructure that enables us to develop, test, debug and release enterprise-grade software at a blistering pace. Your impact will reverberate through our platform and contribute to our customers' success.

Engineering Managers at Snowflake are expected to have a technical background and will have either prior experience in the domain they are managing, or the talent to learn the area if required. Outside of Engineering-specific decision-making, the bar is high in terms of critical thinking, communication, and sound decision-making. Managers who share a belief in the importance of these non-technical traits alongside the desire to build novel, best-in-class engineering, will excel in our environment.

As an Engineering Manager at Snowflake, you will be expected to:

• Develop and execute the strategic vision for the Platform Services team, focusing on infrastructure, quality, and scalability.
• Oversee projects from ideation to deployment, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
• Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and cross-functional units to improve the platform and offer feedback.
• Be a mentor and coach, focused on advancing your team’s skills and career development.
• Prioritize and allocate resources wisely, navigating through both planned projects and unplanned issues.
• Lead initiatives to share knowledge across teams through demos, meetups, and working groups.
• Advocate for best practices in infrastructure, security, and established platform engineering processes.
• Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules.
• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
• Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably in distributed systems and platform engineering.
• 2+ years of proven engineering management experience.
• Proven track record of growing teams and delivering complex projects.
• Experience in designing and building advanced CI/CD pipeline frameworks with great developer experience in mind.
• Strong track record in designing and implementing secure engineering infrastructure architecture.
• Excellent problem-solving sklls and being a guru at troubleshooting.
• Strong focus on quality, performance, and security.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

What You'll Get:

• A chance to work on complex problems affecting a broad range of customers.
• Lead a dynamic, talented team of engineers who are as passionate about solving problems as you are.
• Opportunities to grow both technically and as a people leader.
• A culture that values innovation, creativity, and individual contributions.

Why Join Us:

We're not just another team. We're a group of problem-solvers, thinkers, and tinkerers. We value openness, transparency, and being direct. Come build the future of data management with us!