Senior Technical Support Engineer, Observe by Snowflake

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Sydney, Australia · Global Support

This role is for a Senior Technical Support Engineer focused on an AI-powered observability platform. The engineer will provide expert-level technical support, troubleshoot complex issues, partner with engineering on performance, help design and build AI skills to enhance support productivity, manage escalations, create documentation, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires strong technical expertise in SaaS, DevOps, observability, scripting, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes, along with excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver expert-level technical support to customers through phone, email, and chat.
  2. Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues involving our observability platform, integrations, and customer environments.
  3. Partner with engineering teams responsible for performance to become the subject matter expert on performance issues related to components like dashboards, monitors, and datasets. Lead initiatives to improve performance and educate engineering, technical support, and sales engineering teams on best practices.
  4. Help to design and build AI skills that increase technical support engineering productivity, quality and speed.
  5. Own and manage high-priority escalations, coordinating with engineering and product teams to drive resolution.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years in a technical support or customer-facing engineering role
  • Deep familiarity with operating systems (Linux, Unix, macOS, and Windows)
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Bash
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Strong diagnostic and debugging skills across complex distributed systems

Nice to have

  • Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Loki, or similar platforms
  • Proficiency with OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
  • Experience using Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes clusters
  • Exposure to modern data storage and retrieval systems including SQL, NoSQL, and data warehousing technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • AI skills that increase technical support engineering productivity, quality and speed

Other signals

  • AI-powered observability platform
  • AI Data Cloud
  • chat-based AI SRE
  • AI skills that increase technical support engineering productivity