Snowflake is hiring
Director of Engineering, Frontier Engineering
📋 Description
- Lead a sizeable, multi-country engineering organization
- Set the technical and operating vision for Frontier Engineering: how FDE teams scope, build, and
- Serve as a senior customer-facing leader, partnering directly with customer executives to shape
- Attract and hire exceptional engineering talent, drawing on your own network to fill open roles
- Partner with Sales, Product, and the global Frontier Engineering organization to connect customer
🎯 Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant time leading engineering teams
- A genuine engineering foundation: you have built and shipped production software and can set a high
- Proven experience building or scaling Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) style teams, or embedded
- Strong customer-facing executive presence, with a track record of working directly with customer
- Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple countries and time zones, ideally
- Demonstrated ability to attract senior engineering talent through an established network
🎁 Benefits
- Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake or comparable cloud data and AI platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience building with GenAI and agentic application patterns in production
