Work location: Warsaw (hybrid model - 3 days per week in the office)

We’re searching for a talented Senior Engineering Manager to join us to help us build and further enhance Snowflake Document AI. Our team has responsibility for moving boundaries of NLP space to SOTA levels and coming up with new solutions in cognitive space. As our team is growing rapidly to keep up with this key responsibility alongside Snowflake’s immense growth, we need additional managerial talent to help lead the change.

Senior 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 we set a high bar for ourselves in terms of critical thinking, communication, and sound decision making. We feel that 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 ENGINEERING MANAGER - NLP/DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING YOU WILL:

• Have strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• Directly manage a talented team of Engineers and Managers and will provide:
• Support, guidance and feedback
• Career guidance
• Enable staff to do what they love
• Recruit, Interview, and Hire new team members. 
• Collaborate with other Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers on project schedules and resource allocations to ensure timely delivery
• Build and manage a engineering team with an execution focus
• Lead large, complicated projects alongside Individual Contributor and technology leads
• Participate in the design and implementation of new features and products
• Participate in cross-team discussions and initiatives with the goal of moving the larger group forward on our vision
• Utilize your experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
• Have 7+ years of software engineering management experience with 2+ years in managing other engineering managers and leaders.

IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE NEEDS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

• A successful track record in managing talented engineers and managers
• Ability to align business strategy with research ideas and lead the team to successfully execute and deliver on those ideas
• Understanding of Data Infrastructure systems and microservice architecture built on Public Cloud platforms.

• Experience architecting, building and maintaining platforms built on microservice architecture for large scale SaaS platforms. Focus on memory, cpu and networking performance.
• Strong knowledge of various package tools and methodologies for system components built with Python or Java.

• Proven history of managing software development, automation and software engineering teams.

• Formal software engineering background (aka CS degree).
• Prior experience with distributed systems.
• Ability to translate business strategy into action 
• Ability to communicate well with leadership in articulating results and complex concepts

Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.