Technical Principal

Snowflake

Technical Principal in Snowflake's SnowCAT team driving product success through engagement with customers and engineering teams. Collaborating on architectures and analyzing competing cloud data platforms.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $225,000 - $323,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformIoTJavaJavaScriptPythonScalaSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Impact Snowflake’s product success in multiple market segments and workloads.
Engage with PM and Engineering across multiple feature areas.
Engage with customer CTO’s 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, both desired and undesired.
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

What you’ll need

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. That means flexibility and willingness to jump in and do whatever it takes to be successful.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development
Bonuses
Stock options
Equipment allowances
Wellness programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Query ProcessingAnalytic QueriesStreaming Data / IOTTransaction ProcessingPythonJavaJavascriptScalaSynthetic WorkloadsPrototyping

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsFlexibilityCuriosityMotivation