Drimva

Snowflake

Tech Lead/Manager, AI-Native Authoring

$236K–$339K

US-WA-Bellevue · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026

Experience
9+ years in large-scale production systems and full-stack development; 2+ years managing and leading teams.
Education
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Leads the team building Snowflake’s authoring and notebook platform, spanning backend compute systems and customer-facing editing experiences.

What you'll do

  • Own technical strategy and execution, from system design through implementation and deployment, ensuring platform reliability, scale, and performance.
  • Lead and mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and coordinate roadmaps and integration with product and partner teams.
  • Build and maintain a Tier-1 production service, participate in on-call, and drive improvements to engineering processes and automation.

What they ask for

  • 9+ years of experience designing and building large-scale production systems and in full-stack development.
  • 2+ years of experience managing and leading teams building mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • Strong hands-on skills in complex system design and implementation; deep understanding of web application architecture, API design, security, performance, and scale.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Cloud development experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP); familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience in regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments; knowledge of database internals and SQL.

Pay

$236K – $339.2K (base salary; currency not stated)

Tools

golang, Python, TypeScript, React, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker

AI focus

Serve as an AI bar raiser, improving team workflows toward fully automated and self-improving solutions.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)