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Ang Li

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Senior Software Engineering Manager at Snowflake
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Ang Li is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Snowflake, specializing in observability. With a Ph. D. in Distributed Systems from Duke University, he was a founding engineer and Director of Engineering at Observe, Inc. , leading the backend team on a petabyte-scale data platform prior to its acquisition.

He was a founding engineer at Observe, Inc. , which originated from a startup idea he pitched eight years before its successful acquisition.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Observability Platforms
He leads backend engineering for observability features at Snowflake, previously building a petabyte-scale platform as Director of Engineering at Observe, Inc. , a topic he has discussed on podcasts.
Large-Scale Data
His work at Observe and Snowflake involves building and managing platforms that process petabytes of data daily, a core challenge he frequently addresses in his leadership role.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Snowflake
7-2024 - 2-2026
Director of Engineering
Observe, Inc.
4-2018 - 2-2026
Founding Engineer
Observe, Inc.
8-2012 - 3-2017
Software Engineer
Arista Networks
5-2009 - 8-2009
Research Intern
Microsoft
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Education
2006 - 2012
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Duke University
2002 - 2006
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Tsinghua University
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