Requirements

Proven record managing a team of 5+ engineers delivering complex backend or infrastructure systems in fast-paced environments.
Background in database systems such as query processing, query optimization, storage, or compilers.
Solid experience building and operating distributed systems.
Hands-on engineering skills: able to write, review, and fix production code.
Ability to manage many concurrent projects and prioritize clearly between them.
Capability to balance short-term operational needs with long-term architecture, making cost and performance tradeoffs based on data.
Experience running a team that owns production services with on-call responsibilities.
Excellent communication skills, comfortable working across time zones and organizational boundaries.
Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Haves

Experience with Snowflake or other large-scale data platforms or databases and knowledge of their internals.
Familiarity with the observability space.
Experience building an enterprise-grade SaaS product.

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers focusing on compiler internals, distributed scheduling, query execution, and data materialization.
Coach team members on their careers to help them reach their full potential.
Hire top talent and represent Observe and Snowflake to candidates.
Collaborate closely with Observe product and backend teams to plan and execute new product features and scale existing systems.
Work with Snowflake engineering teams in Germany and the US to integrate Observe more deeply with Snowflake technologies.
Strategically reduce technical debt by identifying areas and building plans while balancing feature development.
Manage multiple ongoing projects, set clear priorities, and ensure nothing important is overlooked.
Own the operational health of the area, including performance, compute cost efficiency, on-call load, and support cost.
Lead the team through production incidents and customer escalations, driving postmortems and follow-up actions.
Stay involved with code by writing, reviewing, and fixing code as needed and digging into production workloads alongside the team.