Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
About the role
Lead and grow the team . Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and focus on the customer. Set strategy and roadmap . Define and drive the multi-quarter vision for release validation: faster signals, fewer blockers, better test quality, and lower cost. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages
- Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms, ideally for complex distributed systems
- A strong technical background, with enough depth to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn the respect of senior engineers
- A solid grasp of test strategy: regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating
- Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority
- A data-driven leadership style: you set measurable goals and use metrics to prioritize and show impact
More about this role
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.
Snowflake engineering takes pride in building highly reliable and scalable products.In the era of autonomous AI agents and continuous deployment, a traditional testing model breaks down under massive PR volume. Our AI pilled engineers treat validation as a scalable, developer-first platform. The Release Validation Team builds test frameworks that make continuous deployment safe, cost-efficient, and agent-friendly. Our customers are Snowflake engineers and their army of agents. How do...
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