Snowflake

Staff Designated Support Engineer

Snowflake

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $122,000 - $160,600 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Delight your designated customer(s) with your passion and knowledge of Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
  • Develop a strong understanding of the customer’s use cases and how they leverage the Snowflake platform.
  • Deliver exceptional service, enabling them to achieve the highest levels of continuity and performance from their Snowflake implementation.
  • Establish regular touchpoints with customers for critical issues and provide executive-level technical briefings.
  • Drive technical advocacy between customers and product teams and lead problem-solving sessions for complex technical challenges.
  • Adhere to response and resolution SLAs and escalation processes to ensure fast resolution of customer issues that exceed expectations.
  • Report well-documented bugs and feature requests arising from customer-submitted requests and work with Engineering toward a resolution.
  • Proactively identify recommendations and lead global initiatives to improve product quality and customer experience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
  • 8+ years experience in a Technical Support environment or a similar technical function in a customer-facing role
  • Excellent writing and communication skills in English with attention to detail
  • Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across global teams with a good understanding of sales cycle concepts
  • Ability to train team members on data warehousing fundamentals and concepts
  • Ability to debug, rewrite, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries for achieving workarounds or better solutions
  • Strong knowledge of RDBMS, SQL data types, aggregations, and functions including analytical/window functions
  • Familiarity with at least one of the following: ETL/ELT, reporting tools such as AWS Glue, EMR, Azure Data Factory, Informatica, Matillion, Tableau, Fivetran, HVR etc.
  • Good understanding of RDBMS query profiles and execution plans to analyze query performance and make recommendations for improvement
  • Good understanding of database query lifecycle and internal join processing
  • Database migration and ETL experience
  • Scripting/coding experience in any programming language
  • Familiarity with semi-structured data
  • Experience in RDBMS workload management and database performance
  • Experience with any of the major cloud service provider’s ecosystem
  • Ability to interpret systems performance metrics (CPU, I/O, RAM, Network stats)
  • Experience troubleshooting database connectivity issues using a variety of methods (client software, drivers/connectors)
  • Understanding of database patch and release management
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
  • Bonuses
  • Stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLRDBMSETLELTdatabase migrationscriptingdata warehousingdatabase performancequery optimizationSnowflake
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailcustomer servicetechnical advocacytraininginitiativedocumentationexecutive-level briefings
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer Science