Snowflake Computing

Staff Cloud Support Engineer

Snowflake Computing • $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years in technical support, ideally in a 24x7 environment.
  • Strong AI fluency, including prompt engineering and context management.
  • Experience with AI-powered tooling and modern support environments.
  • Solid technical troubleshooting skills, including SQL and scripting (Python, APIs).
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Basic understanding of Windows and Linux Operating Systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the customer experience from triage to resolution, ensuring clear communication.
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate triage and root-cause analysis while maintaining accuracy.
  • Focus on business impact, ensuring resolutions improve reliability and reduce recurrence.
  • Provide technical analysis and guidance through various communication channels.
  • Utilize Snowflake tools to investigate and test solutions effectively.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve systemic issues.
  • Document solutions and refine AI-assisted drafts for knowledge management.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a fast-growing company with a focus on innovation.
  • Engagement in a culture that values challenging ordinary thinking.
  • Access to advanced AI tools and technologies.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams, enhancing professional growth.
Full Job Description
Cloud Support Engineer (CSE)

Snowflake seeks early-career Cloud Support Engineers who combine technical expertise, customer empathy, and an AI-first mindset. You'll leverage and refine AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, improve knowledge bases, and reduce time to resolution-safely and responsibly. Experience in 24x7 technical support, escalation handling, on-call rotations, and incident management is ideal.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Cloud Support Engineer, you manage customer cases and are accountable for accelerating their time-to-resolution, ensuring platform stability, and driving a world-class support experience. Operating as a full-stack technical support resource, this role blends deep hands-on troubleshooting with the customer empathy and communication skills of a trusted advisor.

Customer Value and Incident Ownership
  • Own the Customer Experience: Manage customer issues from initial triage through resolution and follow-up, ensuring clear communication and timely updates.
  • Deliver Support Value with AI: Leverage AI assistants and diagnostics to accelerate triage and root-cause analysis while maintaining accuracy and safety standards.
  • Outcome-Based Support: Focus on business impact, ensuring resolutions fix issues, reduce recurrence, and improve reliability.
  • Customer Empathy and Communication: Provide technical analysis and guidance via email, web, and phone, adapting to customer expertise levels.

Technical Execution and Collaboration
  • AI-Assisted Triage: Use AI to summarize logs, generate hypotheses, and draft responses-critically validating outputs before sharing.
  • Tooling Expertise: Utilize Snowflake environment, connectors, and internal tools to investigate and test solutions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to resolve systemic issues.
  • Knowledge Management: Document solutions in knowledge bases, refining AI-assisted drafts for quality.
  • Feedback and Innovation: Provide input on product behavior, documentation gaps, and AI-tool performance.
  • Bug Reporting: Document and collaborate on bugs and feature requests with engineering teams.
  • Operational Coverage: Support holiday/weekend rotations and on-call requirements

Required Qualifications:
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years in technical support (customer-facing, ideally 24x7).
  • Strong AI fluency, including prompt engineering, context management, and the ability to critically validate AI outputs and know when to fall back to manual investigation.
  • Experience with AI-powered tooling (e.g., coding assistants/agentic IDEs) and modern support environments.
  • Solid technical troubleshooting skills, including comfort with SQL, log analysis, and scripting/automation (e.g., Python, APIs, workflow tools) to diagnose issues and streamline tasks.SQL, log analysis, and scripting skills (Python, APIs).
  • Strong written/verbal English communication.
  • Basic understanding of Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
  • Basic understanding of Data Warehousing fundamentals and concepts.
  • Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries
  • Familiarity with end-to-end ML pipeline including ML modeling, feature engineering, ML model training, etc.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, and associated tools within the LLM ecosystem, including Langchain, vector databases, co-pilot, and open-source Hugging Face models.
  • Being able to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to MLOps pipelines, model performance, and infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services

Preferred:
  • Snowflake or cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Advance Workflow automation / CI/CD tooling experience
  • AI-powered support or SRE workflow experience
  • Relevant certifications (SnowPro, cloud certs)
  • Knowledge about GPUs, CUDA, and low-level optimizations will be a plus.
  • Experience developing CI/CD components for production-ready MLOps pipelines.


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

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. The company provides a data platform that allows customers to store and analyze data using cloud-based infrastructure. Snowflake's platform is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, allowing customers to easily add or remove computing resources as needed. The company's customers include a wide range of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake has received significant funding from investors and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about Snowflake Computing
Size
2,037 employees
Market Cap
$44.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$539.1 million
Founded
2012
Revenue
$592 million
NASDAQ

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