snowflake
Senior Director of Engineering, Traffic and Networking
At a Glance
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Snowflake
- Posted
- 2026-03-24
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Cloud
- Education
- Engineering
- SaaS
Requirements
15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
Distributed Systems Expertise:
Proven track record in designing systems and managing large-scale production infrastructure with a focus on networking, compute, or storage
Strong hands-on experience with cloud service providers.
Deep experience working at scale within a multi-tenant or multi-single-tenant SaaS model, handling billions of complex queries and massive traffic ingress/egress.
You're actively evolving a network architecture, building new observability capabilities, modernizing legacy infrastructure, and designing the next-generation connectivity model across multiple clouds.
Responsibilities
As a senior engineering leader at Snowflake, you will be expected to:
Define the roadmap for Snowflake’s networking foundation and be accountable for the execution of complex plans and deliverables.
Scale Infrastructure:
Guide your team in building software solutions that automate and scale networking across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Lead projects from initial idea through design and implementation, collaborating with teams in the US, Ireland, Poland, and beyond.
Technical Leadership:
Team
Actively recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team of industry veterans and rising stars.
Mentorship:
Be responsible for the career development of your reports through continuous coaching and mentorship.
Operational Excellence:
Shift resources dynamically to respond to production issues and customer needs, ensuring high levels of reliability.
Your Professional Profile
About the Company
Every query, every login, every byte of data in Snowflake's Data Cloud travels through the systems this team builds. The Traffic & Networking group is responsible for the ingress, egress, domain management, and internal networking layers that connect thousands of customers to Snowflake across public and private connectivity paths. We build and deploy software to enable seamless service-to-service and user-to-service communication across all traffic types spanning every environment and cloud provider Snowflake touches. Your goal is to ensure robust domain management, efficient traffic flow, and reliable connectivity while relentlessly improving product velocity, and operational efficiency.