Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Solution Engineering sits at a critical junction in SaaS: translating a complex platform into credible outcomes during enterprise buying cycles. Snowflake’s focus on data warehousing, analytics, and adjacent cloud patterns makes this role especially relevant to the modern SaaS stack, where technical validation and architectural fit often determine whether a deal advances. The remit spans demos, proofs of concept, and implementation design, reflecting how enterprise SaaS adoption increasingly depends on hands-on technical partnership rather than slideware.
For a SaaS career, this position builds durable strengths in value articulation, technical discovery, and solution design across varied customer environments. Exposure to competitive positioning and collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing also develops an operator’s view of how SaaS offerings evolve based on field feedback. The emphasis on SQL, Python, and data architecture creates a foundation that transfers across data platforms, developer tooling, and cloud-native SaaS categories.
This role suits professionals who enjoy moving between executive conversations and deep technical sessions, and who prefer work that combines storytelling with practical build-and-test cycles. It will resonate with those comfortable owning pre-sales technical strategy, partnering closely with sales and channels, and traveling as needed to support enterprise stakeholders.
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 Solution Engineer who is accustomed to solving customer’s most complex problems and closing large deals. In this role you will work directly with the sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business.
As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you must share our passion about reinventing the database space, thrive in a dynamic environment and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences.
Location: Must be based in one of the following states:MD/DC/VA/PA/WV/DE
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Present Snowflake 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
Immerse 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.
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
7-8 years of industry experience with a minimum of 5 years within a pre-sales environment
Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric
Hands-on expertise with SQL,SQL analytics, and Python.
Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture.
University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred. Masters in DataScience or Business Administration is a plus.
Experience with GSIs (EY, Deloitte, Accenture, etc), would be beneficial, but not required
Expect approximately 30% travel
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.
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