# Senior Director of Engineering – Horizon Catalog, Collaboration & Marketplace at Snowflake

- Company: Snowflake
- What the company does: Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.snowflake.net/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US-CA-Menlo Park
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $340K to $489K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-03
- Apply by: 2026-11-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/35026637-d96b-47b3-a154-96e31765a7aa?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-senior-director-of-engineering-horizon-catalog-collaboration-and-marke/

## About the role

1. Horizon Catalog & Metadata: Building agentic experiences for exploring/understanding all the data estate and expressing governance intent, governance capabilities like data-quality monitoring and lineage tracking and integration with open standards (such as Apache Polaris / Iceberg REST catalog). Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience in product infrastructure, distributed systems, or enterprise cloud platforms, including 7+ years managing engineering directors, managers, and senior leaders across multi-team organizations
- Product-Minded Engineering Leadership: Strong technical product acumen: you don't just build infrastructure in a vacuum. You deeply understand customer workflows, the enterprise admin persona, usability, and how technical architecture drives product adoption
- Distributed Systems at Scale: Strong foundation in cloud-native distributed systems, high-throughput metadata storage, query execution, caching layers, and cross-region replication
- Organizational Excellence: Proven ability to attract, hire, retain, and develop elite engineering talent, adept at fostering an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture
- Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical architectures, trade-offs, and product strategies to VP/C-level leaders and enterprise customers
- Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-senior-director-of-engineering-horizon-catalog-collaboration-and-marke/