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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer -Spark

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park, US-WA-Bellevue$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with customers to modernize their data and application ecosystems using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, with a focus on Spark and Data Engineering workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Software Development: Design, build, and deploy robust software systems, tooling, and automation required to support customer solutions on Snowflake. Create comprehensive documentation for developed solutions, technical configurations, and best practices.
  • Data Engineering & Platform Implementation: Design and implement scalable data pipelines and modern data architectures on Snowflake. Ensure data quality, integrity, and efficient processing within the customer's modern data environment.
  • Performance Optimization & Best Practices: Analyze and optimize data models, queries, and data processing workflows to maximize performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness within the Snowflake environment. Champion Snowflake best practices.
  • Modern Data Solutions: Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data integration tools and techniques suitable for the Snowflake ecosystem, helping customers evolve their data capabilities.
  • Client Collaboration and Enablement: Provide expert technical guidance, mentorship, and training to client teams on leveraging the Snowflake platform effectively, including data management, analytics, AI/ML capabilities, and reporting/BI integration.
  • Troubleshooting and Support: Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and operational issues.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java or C++.
  • Proficiency in Spark ecosystem.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing & data lake concepts, and cloud data platforms.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a client-facing environment.
  • Travel up to 20% of the time to collaborate with teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Required:PythonGoJavaC++Spark ecosystemData Modeling
Nice to have:Cloud PlatformsSQLAI/ML

Benefits

  • No specific benefits listed in the description (Salary and equity mentioned in compensation).
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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