Snowflake
Director of Engineering - Traffic & Networking
$380K–$475K
US-CA-Menlo Park · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the strategy, team, and delivery of Snowflake’s global traffic and networking infrastructure across cloud providers.
What you'll do
- Set the networking roadmap and lead execution of complex infrastructure plans.
- Guide development and automation of networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP, emphasizing performance, security, and reliability.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor the team while coordinating across regions and responding to production and customer needs.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of software engineering experience and at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
- Proven experience designing distributed systems and managing large-scale production infrastructure focused on networking, compute, or storage.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud service providers.
- Deep experience at scale in a multi-tenant or multi-single-tenant SaaS model, handling billions of complex queries and massive traffic ingress/egress.
Pay
$380K – $475K (USD; pay type not stated)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP
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