Snowflake
Engineering Manager - Cloud Efficiency
$236K–$339K
US-WA-Bellevue · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an engineering management role.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the Cloud Efficiency team in building a self-serve platform and AI skills and agents to attribute, govern, analyze, and optimize cloud resource usage and spend.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow software engineers, fostering technical excellence and ownership.
- Set the roadmap and technical strategy for cost data, attribution, backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs.
- Own delivery from planning and design through launch and iteration, partnering across functions.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years in engineering management leading teams building large-scale production systems.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems, data engineering, or cloud-native backend development.
- Experience building cloud cost management, budgeting, billing, or FinOps tools; and experience with anomaly detection, time-series analysis, or ML-driven cost optimization.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay
$236K – $339.2K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
Build AI skills and agents for cloud efficiency; the posting also seeks experience with ML-driven cost optimization products.
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