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Snowflake

Engineering Manager, Bedrock

Snowflake is hiring an Engineering Manager, Bedrock for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $236k-$339k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Snowflake.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • This is listed as a remote role.
  • The posting mentions Bedrock, Snowsight and engineering management among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a lead role.
  • Snowflake has 353 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead the Apps & Experiences Platform team building backend infrastructure and AI self-serve tools at Snowflake.

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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

About the team

The Apps & Experiences Platform team is powering systems and services for all our user facing apps including Snowsight, Snowflake Intelligence, and new mobile apps. Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools, infrastructure, and AI tooling that bring such products to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of building & managing platform infrastructure, and building AI self-serve tools to support the platform and its developer’s needs. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth AI data cloud company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level.

AS MANAGER FOR APPS & EXPERIENCES PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL:

  • Own the technical strategy and execution for the team, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment.

  • Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability.

  • Serve as a subject matter expert, setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices within the team.

  • Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development, and grow a strong, diverse team through proactive hiring.

  • Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the platform's availability, maintainability, and performance.

  • Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to translate user needs and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps.

  • Lead the improvement of our engineering processes, tooling, and standards, focusing on efficiency and velocity.

  • Partner effectively with other engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader platform.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WITH:

  • 9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale user-facing systems in production.

  • 3+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems that power user interfaces.

  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.

  • Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, is a plus.

  • Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation on a routine basis.

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

How we rate this

Engineering Manager, Bedrock at Snowflake rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsPlatform EngineeringAI ToolingBedrockSnowsight

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where engineering management was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where platform engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where ai tooling was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Bedrock in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Engineering Management, Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, AI Tooling, and Bedrock. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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