Snowflake
Engineering Manager, Release Validation
$236K–$339K
US-WA-Bellevue +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue
US-CA-Menlo Park - Experience
- 3–5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers; experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms is also required, with no years specified.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads Snowflake’s Release Validation team and platform to make continuous deployment safer, faster, and more reliable through test infrastructure, automation, and AI-driven analysis.
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; set the team’s multi-quarter strategy and roadmap.
- Own distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and the release validation pipeline.
- Improve test health, failure triage, and release quality; drive AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing across teams.
What they ask for
- 3–5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms.
- Strong technical background and knowledge of test strategy, including regression and workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating.
- Experience influencing across teams; data-driven leadership and strong communication skills.
Pay
$236K – $339.2K (currency not specified; compensation type not specified)
Tools
CI/CD
AI focus
Drive AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing to reduce manual engineering work; support agent-friendly validation.
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