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Senior Engineering Manager - Observability

at Snowflake

📍 US-CA-Menlo Park Unknown Posted March 07, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience senior
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

Lead the Observability team at Snowflake, focusing on building scalable distributed systems and promoting best practices in system monitoring and health insights.

  • Lead observability strategy
  • Mentor engineering team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Develop monitoring APIs and tools
  • Promote data-driven system improvements

Role involves developing APIs, infrastructure, and tools for system observability, working with logs, metrics, traces, and container orchestration technologies.

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineering leader with extensive experience in building and managing distributed systems at scale. They possess strong expertise in observability practices, container orchestration, and cross-functional collaboration, with a proven track record of leading high-performing engineering teams.

Experience leading large software teamsBuilding and running distributed systemsEffective people managementCollaborative cross-functional workObservability practices
Modern observability practicesLogsmetricstracesalertsContainer deployment and orchestration
APIsMonitoring toolsContainer orchestration
Distributed SystemsObservabilityAPIsInfrastructureMonitoring ToolsMetricsLogsTracesAlertsContainer DeploymentOrchestration Technologies
Distributed SystemsObservabilityAPIsInfrastructureMonitoring ToolsMetricsLogsTracesAlertsContainer DeploymentOrchestration Technologies
LeadershipMentoringCollaborationData-Driven Decision MakingCross-Functional WorkStrategic Thinking
Industry SaaS
Job Function Engineering leadership for observability and distributed systems
Distributed SystemsObservabilityAPIsInfrastructureMonitoring ToolsMetricsLogsTracesAlertsContainer DeploymentOrchestration TechnologiesLeadershipMentoringCollaborationData-Driven Decision MakingContainer Orchestration

Lack of experience leading large software teams, No background in distributed systems or observability, Inability to work collaboratively across functions

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