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Snowflake

SnowCAT Technical Principal

Snowflake
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3 days ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$264k - $396k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Impact Snowflake’s product success in multiple market segments and workloads.
  • Engage with PM and Engineering across multiple feature areas.
  • Collaborate with customer CTOs and senior leaders to deploy and evaluate new capabilities.
  • Create and advocate for new technical architectures backed by sample code.
  • Evaluate competing cloud data platform products and compare features with Snowflake’s capabilities.
  • Analyze Snowflake telemetry to investigate feature behavior.
  • Communicate findings and recommendations to Product Management and Engineering leaders.
  • Partner with Marketing teams to position Snowflake’s feature advantages.
  • Own and execute on multiple concurrent SnowCAT projects.

Requirements

  • Proven expertise as a leader or senior contributor in a data-centric software or services team.
  • Deep familiarity with distributed database architectures and query processing.
  • Comfort integrating diverse tooling on cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Curiosity to work with various distributed computing/database platforms.
  • Deep experience with database-centric workloads including analytic queries and machine learning.
  • Expert SQL skills and experience in programming languages like Python, Java, and Scala.
  • Experience with agents/LLMs, containerized services, and machine learning model development.
  • Strong coding skills to build synthetic workloads and prototypes.
  • Excellent communication skills for technical presentations.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, hyper-growth environment.
  • Proven expertise in understanding customer needs and collaborating across teams.
  • 20+ years of experience in a technical role for data-centric software or services.

Categories

AI & MLBackendData EngineeringData Science