Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Cloud Support Engineer role sits at a core SaaS junction where product reliability, customer outcomes, and cloud infrastructure meet. In data platform SaaS specifically, support is not limited to ticket handling; it becomes a technical function that interprets real production usage across SQL workloads, connectors, and cloud environments, then translates that into actionable signals for engineering. The public sector focus also adds a regulated, security conscious dimension that is increasingly relevant across enterprise SaaS.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work builds durable strengths in incident management, escalation discipline, and systems level troubleshooting under SLA pressure. It also develops the craft of turning complex root cause analysis into clear written guidance, knowledge base assets, and product feedback loops, which are transferable to roles in SRE, solutions engineering, technical account management, or platform engineering within SaaS companies.
This position tends to suit professionals who prefer structured problem solving, enjoy deep dives into query performance and connectivity issues, and are comfortable collaborating across support and engineering boundaries. It aligns well with experienced support engineers who want broader platform exposure, as well as technically strong practitioners who value customer facing impact without shifting fully into pre sales work.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Snowflake Support is committed to providing high-quality resolutions to help deliver data-driven business insights and results. We are a team of subject matter experts collectively working toward our customers’ success. We form partnerships with customers by listening, learning, and building connections.
Snowflake’s values are key to our approach and success in delivering world-class Support. Putting customers first, acting with integrity, owning initiative and accountability, and getting it done are Snowflake core values and are reflected in everything we do.
Snowflake’s Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Senior Cloud Support Engineer who likes working with data and solving a wide variety of issues utilizing their technical experience having worked on a variety of operating systems, database technologies, big data, data integration, connectors, and networking.
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:
The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data.
Employment with Snowflake is contingent on Snowflake verifying that you: (i) may legally access U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data; or (ii) are eligible to obtain, in a timely manner, any necessary license or other authorization(s) from the U.S. Government to allow access to U.S. export-controlled technology, technical data, or sensitive government data.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Participate in pager duty rotations during nights, weekends, and holidays
Ability to work a 1st shift (7 am-4 pm PST)
Applicants should be flexible with schedule changes to meet business needs
As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, your role is to delight our customers with your passion and knowledge of Snowflake Data Warehouse. Customers will look to you for technical guidance and for expert advice with regards to their effective and optimal use of Snowflake. You will be the voice of the customer into Snowflake’s product and engineering teams for product feedback and improvements. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements.
Based on business needs, you may be assigned to work with one or more Snowflake Priority Support customers. You will develop a strong understanding of the customer’s use case and how they leverage the Snowflake platform. You will deliver exceptional service, enabling them to achieve the highest levels of continuity and performance from their Snowflake implementation.
Ideally, you have worked in a 24x7 environment, handled technical case escalations and incident management, worked in technical support for an RDBMS, been on-call during weekends, and are familiar with database release management.
YOU WILL:
Drive technical solutions to complex problems providing in-depth analysis and guidance to Snowflake customers and partners using the following methods of communication: email, web, and phone
Adhere to response and resolution SLAs and escalation processes in order to ensure fast resolution of customer issues that exceed expectations
Utilize the Snowflake environment, connectors, 3rd party partner software, and tools to investigate issues
Document known solutions to the internal and external knowledge base
Report well-documented bugs and feature requests arising from customer submitted requests
Partner with engineering teams in prioritizing and resolving customer requests
Participate in incident management and on-call rotation
Participate in a variety of Support initiatives
Provide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs
OUR IDEAL SENIOR CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
Bachelor’s. or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
5+ 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
Understanding of 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
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
Good understanding of 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
NICE TO HAVES:
Experience working with a distributed database i.e. big data and/or MPP (massively parallel processing) databases.
Troubleshooting skills on a variety of operating systems (Windows, Mac, *Nix)
Good understanding of the technical fundamentals of the internet. You should have a solid knowledge of internet protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SFTP, DNS as well as the ability to use diagnostic tools to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Understanding of cloud computing security concepts
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.
The application window is expected to be open until February 27th, 2026 . This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.
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
