Sales Engineer, Observe
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Sales Engineer, Observe at Snowflake is a forward deployed cloud data warehouse role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Solutions / Sales Engineering role centers on technical discovery, demos, POCs, and helping buyers build internal consensus. Key signals from the listing: Kubernetes / containers, AWS, Azure, GCP.
About Snowflake
Snowflake field engineers drive warehouse migrations and analytics modernization with enterprise buyers. The role is anchored in US-OH-Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Sales Engineer, Observe
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Sales Engineer, Observe to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Snowflake hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Bring a tight demo narrative: customer pain, live workflow, and measurable before/after — treat the interview like a compressed POC.
- Show how you qualify opportunities and say no to bad-fit pilots; Snowflake values technical judgment in customer-facing roles.
- For Kubernetes-heavy roles, describe a cluster you operated: upgrades, networking, secrets, observability, and how you debugged a production outage.
- This role is tied to US-OH-Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Snowflake
- Demonstrate SQL/ELT patterns with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate cost governance with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Proof of running a successful migration or cost-optimization project beats generic cloud buzzwords.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on snowflake.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Observe by Snowflake is a high-growth SaaS observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, enabling businesses to troubleshoot modern distributed applications 10x faster. Now, as a core part of Snowflake, we’ve reached a major milestone in the evolution of the Snowflake platform. By bringing AI-powered observability directly into the Snowflake ecosystem, we’ve created the first truly unified platform for telemetry and business data. This Senior Sales Engineer is a critical, highly-visible role within Observe, serving as the primary technical resource for our Sales team. You will be responsible for driving the technical closure of sales opportunities by demonstrating the value of Observe to prospective customers. This role requires a blend of deep technical knowledge, strong presentation skills, and a customer-focused approach.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Discovery and Presentation: Conduct in-depth technical discovery sessions with prospects to understand their current environment, challenges, and specific observability requirements. Tailor and deliver compelling product demonstrations and technical presentations that showcase how our solution addresses their needs. Proof of Concepts (POCs): Design, scope, and manage technical evaluations and Proof of Concepts, ensuring the successful setup and demonstration of value within the customer's environment. Document findings and present clear, persuasive results back to the customer. Sales Team Support: Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute technical sales strategies. Act as the technical subject matter expert throughout the sales cycle, from initial contact to final contract. Feedback and Product Collaboration: Serve as the voice of the customer to the Product Management and Engineering teams, providing crucial feedback on product capabilities, market needs, and competitive landscape. Content and Training: Develop and maintain technical sales collateral, including demo environments, presentations, and best practice guides. Deliver technical training to the broader Sales organization. Travel: Ability to travel to client sites and industry events as required.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect in the software industry. Deep technical understanding and practical experience with modern Observability concepts (metrics, logging, tracing) and tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK Stack). Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices) and major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred
Experience selling to Developer, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) personas. Prior experience in a fast-paced, high-growth Observability or Application Performance Monitoring (APM) company.kl Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com