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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Manager - Engineering Systems AI Developer Experience - **Company:** Snowflake Inc. - **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $236,000.0 - $339,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Code Review, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Snowflake - **Published:** August 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18082306?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18082306%2FSenior-Manager-Engineering-Systems-Ai-Developer-Experience-Washington-Bellevue ## About the Role * 15+ years of software engineering experience * 5+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment. * Demonstrated hands-on experience working with the latest AI tools, particularly in the productivity space. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work. * A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use. * Bonus points for experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts. 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. ## Description As the manager for this growing team, you will lead the group of engineers working to reinvent how code is written, reviewed and runs in production to usher scale and velocity for the AI era. With context as the new source code, you will make it possible for every engineer at Snowflake to deliver through intent and direction. In this role, you will: * Lead, coach, and grow the ES AI DevEx team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development. * Deliver the vision and roadmap for transforming the SDLC for all Snowflake engineers. * Drive measurable improvements in code review latency, ensure Snowflake developers can use the latest harnesses and models, and create the golden paths that agentic codebases are built upon. * Act as an agent of clarity in a space that is moving fast, making high quality decisions quickly by keeping up with the latest developments in the industry. * Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Model Based Systems Engineering in an Agile Product Development Process](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/68-model-based-systems-engineering-in-an-agile-product-development-process) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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