Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the infrastructure layer of the SaaS ecosystem, where data platforms become foundational to how other software products are built, sold, and operated. A Commercial Solution Engineer in Berlin is positioned at the intersection of product capability and customer decision-making, translating a cloud data platform into concrete architectures and evaluation paths. The German-language focus also signals work across DACH buying committees, where technical validation and stakeholder alignment often shape outcomes.
For a long-term SaaS career, this kind of role develops durable skills in pre-sales discovery, technical storytelling, and proof-of-concept execution, all of which transfer across SaaS categories. It also builds practical fluency in modern data architecture and cloud analytics concepts, alongside the discipline of mapping features to measurable business problems. The exposure to partner ecosystems and competitive positioning is especially relevant in enterprise SaaS, where procurement compares platforms, not point features.
This role tends to suit professionals who enjoy hands-on technical work but prefer it in customer-facing cycles rather than internal-only engineering. It fits those who are comfortable switching between SQL-level detail and executive-level narratives, and who value iterative learning as the product surface area evolves. It is also a strong match for candidates aiming to deepen domain expertise in data platforms while staying close to revenue-driving 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
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.
We are looking for a Commercial Solution Engineer (German speaker) who can solve our customer’s most complex problems. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to best support them in their evaluation and ultimately help our customers choose Snowflake as their solution.
As a Snowflake Commercial Solution Engineer you share our passion for solving complex data challenges and helping organizations to get the most out of their data assets. Our technical landscape is ever evolving and you are keen to learn new skills and put them into practice on real world challenges. You are able to translate features and functions into solutions that solve business problems, in conversations with technical or business teams, with end users or executives.
In this role you will get to:
Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers
Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation
Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win
Be at the cutting edge of Snowflake technology and confidently present Snowflake roadmap features and functionality to customers and/or prospects
Immerse and enable yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
Work closely with other sales engineers to make each other the best and constantly learn from wins and losses
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
Represent Snowflake at industry or customer events
Work with our ecosystem and implementation partners to build joint architectures or collaborate on account strategies and initiatives to help our customers be successful
On day one we will expect you to have:
Solution Engineering/Solution Architect experience in a SaaS environment or relevant industry experience (analytics, data science, data engineering etc)
Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
Understanding of and experience with data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology
Hands on experience with SQL
Ability to solve customer specific business problems and apply Snowflake’s solutions
Customer-facing skills to effectively communicate our vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences both written and verbal
Preferred (but not required) to have:
Hands on experience with Python
Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
Experience with data science and machine learning technology
People want to buy from people who understand them. Our Solution Engineers build connections, relationships and trust with our customers that last. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our customers and each other successful.
Think you have what it takes but not sure that you tick every box above? Apply anyways! We value the broad range of experience our teams bring to the table and believe our customers are more successful because of it.
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
