Technical Lead /Manager - Apps & Experiences Platform
Technical Lead · Lead · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Snowflake is seeking a Technical Lead/Manager for its Apps & Experiences Platform team, responsible for driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and building innovative backend services and AI tooling for user-facing applications. The ideal candidate will lead high-performance engineering teams in developing scalable, reliable platform infrastructure that supports Snowflake's AI-native enterprise solutions.
Responsibilities
- Technical Strategy: Own technical strategy and execution for the Apps & Experiences Platform team
- System Design: Lead complex system design, ensuring reliability and scalability
- Team Development: Mentor and coach engineers, drive team growth and hiring
- Process Improvement: Enhance engineering processes, tooling, and standards
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product management and other teams to drive platform direction
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
System Architecture
Expertise in designing large-scale, user-facing systems
Performance Optimization
Skills in creating high-performance, concurrent systems
Education
Computer Science Degree
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field
Experience
Leadership Experience
9+ years in building production systems
Management Experience
3+ years leading engineering teams
Skills
Required
Cloud Environments
Extensive experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP
System Design
Expertise in designing large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems
Team Leadership
Proven ability to manage and coach engineering teams
Technical Strategy
Capability to drive technical vision and execution
Preferred
AI Tooling
Nice to haveExperience with AI-native development and self-serve AI tools
Mobile App Development
Nice to haveBackground in developing user-facing mobile applications
Infrastructure Scaling
Nice to haveExperience in building scalable platform infrastructure
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·CAD 291,250 – 341,250
Benefits
Competitive Compensation
Salary range of CA$291,250 - CA$341,250
Hybrid Work
Flexible work arrangement in Toronto
Career Growth
Opportunity to work at a fast-growing AI-native data cloud company
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screening
Phone or video call with recruiting team
- 02
Technical Interview
Deep dive into technical skills and system design capabilities
- 03
Leadership Assessment
Evaluation of team management and strategic thinking skills
- 04
Final Interviews
Meetings with team leadership and cross-functional partners
Full posting
Original listing.
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 creating features, 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 TECHNICAL LEAD & 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 key technical contributor and 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
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