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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.\nEngineering Manager - Data Lake\nBellevue, WA - USA\nBuild the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team!\nWe are hiring a dynamic and accomplished Engineering Manager to join our Data Lake team. In this role, you will lead and expand a talented team building on cutting edge open source data lake technologies. 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