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SnowCAT Technical Principal

264k – 396kMenlo Park, CAHybrid20+ YOE
Summary

Senior technical leader on the SnowCAT team driving adoption of cutting-edge Snowflake features by partnering with PM, Engineering, and customers to validate architectures and benchmark performance. Requires 20+ years of experience with distributed databases, cloud platforms, and expert SQL skills.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Impact Snowflake’s product success in multiple market segments and workloads
  • Engage with PM and Engineering across multiple feature areas
  • Engage with customer CTOs and senior business/technical leaders to deploy, prove, evaluate, and advise on new Snowflake capabilities
  • Create and advocate for new technical architectures, often backed by sample code
  • Dig into selected competing cloud data platform products to evaluate their newest features and best practices and compare them against Snowflake’s capabilities
  • Analyze Snowflake telemetry and understand Snowflake’s internals to investigate the root cause for feature behavior
  • Communicate findings and recommendations effectively and persuasively to Product Management and Engineering leaders
  • Partner with various Marketing teams to position Snowflake’s feature advantages to technical field organizations and customers
  • Own and execute on multiple, concurrent SnowCAT projects, maintaining a thorough written record of progress

Requirements

  • Proven expertise as leader or senior contributor in a data-centric software or services team
  • Deep familiarity with distributed database architectures, query processing and the drivers of performance
  • Comfort integrating diverse tooling on cloud platforms including AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Curiosity and motivation to work with a variety of distributed computing / database platforms in the cloud and understand strengths & weaknesses impacting performance
  • Deep experience with a variety of database-centric workloads including analytic queries, data engineering / ETL, machine learning, streaming data / IOT, and transaction processing
  • Expert SQL skills and strong experience in other programming languages/frameworks adjacent to Snowflake, including but not limited to Python, Java, Javascript, Scala, etc.
  • Experience with agents/LLMs, containerized services, data intensive applications, and/or machine learning model development
  • Strong vibe coding skills to build synthetic workloads and prototypes to stress platforms and features
  • Excellent communication skills in presenting to technical audiences inside and outside the company
  • An ability to thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with being part of a hyper-growth company
  • Proven expertise in understanding the voice of the customer and partnering across engineering, marketing, and sales to deliver compelling products that meet those customers’ needs
  • 20+ years of experience in a technical role for data-centric software or services -- testing and tuning products, implementing complex solutions with customers, product management, or benchmarking

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with agents/LLMs, containerized services, data intensive applications, and/or machine learning model development
Skills
SQLPythonJavaJavaScriptScalaAWSAzureGCPDistributed DatabasesMachine Learning
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