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Snowflake· HQ in Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

Director of Engineering - Traffic & Networking

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Director · USD380,000 – USD475,000 / yearly · Posted: October 8, 2026 · Verified: Nov 13, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Director of Engineering leads the Traffic & Networking group at Snowflake, responsible for ingress, egress, domain management, and internal networking layers of the global cloud infrastructure. The role involves setting strategic vision, scaling infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building a diverse engineering team. Requires 15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
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Snowflake

snowflake.com

Managed enterprise data cloud for analytics, sharing, AI, and clean rooms.

Headquarters: Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

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