Snowflake
Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team
$264K–$380K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience; 1+ years leading a technical engineering team.
About the job
Leads the System Under Test team and evolves Snowflake’s local and CI testing platform to improve engineers’ reliability, speed, and cost of development.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop the team; own its roadmap and rollout across development environments, CI, and AI workflows.
- Set technical direction for a composable, containerized test platform and drive measurable reliability, latency, and cost improvements.
- Oversee operations, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, maintenance, and support.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- 1+ years leading a technical engineering team, including people leadership, roadmap ownership, and technical judgment.
- Systems thinking and comfort with distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for stakeholder alignment and cross-functional work.
Nice to have
- Experience with developer productivity tooling and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience with modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.
Pay
$264K – $379.5K (USD; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Kubernetes
AI focus
Own rollout of SUT across AI workflows; AI-assisted engineering workflows are a preferred area of experience.
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