SnowCAT Technical Principal
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.
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
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