Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Designated support roles sit at a key intersection in SaaS: they translate real production usage into actionable insight for product and engineering. In Snowflake’s case, the domain is a cloud data platform where reliability, performance, and architecture decisions directly shape customer outcomes. The “priority support” framing signals a model common in enterprise SaaS, with tighter SLAs, deeper account context, and a higher bar for technical guidance than ticket-based support.
For a long-term SaaS career, this position builds durable strengths in operating complex multi-tenant software at scale, from incident response through root-cause analysis and prevention. It also offers repeated exposure to patterns that recur across SaaS companies, such as escalation management, cross-functional alignment, and turning customer-reported friction into well-documented bugs and product feedback. The emphasis on SQL, data warehousing concepts, and cloud ecosystems maps well to modern SaaS infrastructure and analytics workflows.
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 Priority Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Designated Support Engineer. As a Designated Support Engineer, your role is to delight your designated customer(s) with your passion and knowledge of Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Customers will look to you for technical guidance and expert advice with regard to their effective and optimal use of Snowflake. You will be the voice of the customer to 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.
You will be assigned to work with one or more Snowflake Priority Support customers. You will develop a strong understanding of the customer’s use cases 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. You will be an integral part of a cross-functional team focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience.
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.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
YOU WILL:
Have the ability to handle multiple designated accounts, depending on their size
Establish regular touchpoints with customers for critical issues, provide executive-level technical briefings, drive technical advocacy between customers and product teams, and lead problem-solving sessions for complex technical challenges
Work closely with the Technical Account Managers and support the Account Team by attending weekly account reviews for your designated customers
Maintain deep knowledge of assigned accounts' architecture and use cases
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
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
Provide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs
Work within the Snowflake Priority Support team with a One Snowflake mindset, coordinating and partnering cross-functionally
OUR IDEAL DESIGNATED SUPPORT ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
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 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
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience with Data Warehousing, Database migration and ETL
Experience working with a distributed database i.e. big data and/or MPP (massively parallel processing) databases.
Experience with CI/CD platforms and tools such as Terraform, Azure Devops, Jenkins etc.
Scripting/coding experience In any of the following: .Net, Javascript, R, GO
Experience with Libraries/Frameworks such as Pandas, SciPy, TensorFlow etc.
Experience supporting applications running on either Amazon AWS or MS Azure
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, and DNS as well as the ability to use diagnostic tools to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Understanding of cloud computing security concepts
Experience with virtualization and Container solutions (VMware, Docker, Virtualbox, Kubernetes, etc)
Understanding of cloud computing Network and 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.
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
