Engineering Manager, Release Validation

US-WA-BellevueFull-time2026-10-06 → 2026-10-11

Core

Lead the Release Validation team to build scalable test frameworks and automation for continuous deployment in an AI-native environment.

Role type

Engineering Manager, Release Validation (via careerplan.io/jobs/adcd1339-0d66-4d54-8af5-1e0ca6389835-engineering-manager-release-validation-at-snowflake)

Builds

Distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and release validation pipelines.

Domain

Cloud Data Platform / CI/CD / Test Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and hiring, CI/CD and test infrastructure architecture, test strategy (regression/workload/hermeticity), cross-team influence, data-driven goal setting, AI-driven failure analysis

Preferred skills

Experience with autonomous AI agents, developer productivity platforms

Technologies

Distributed systems, automation frameworks, AI tools

Responsibilities

Hire and mentor engineers, define multi-quarter validation roadmap, ensure platform reliability and scalability, improve test health across the company, reduce release blockers, drive AI automation for failure analysis

Seniority

Manager, hands-on technical leadership

About Snowflake

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 Snowf