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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.\nSnowflake's Observe business unit delivers AI-powered observability at enterprise scale, unifying logs, metrics, and traces across petabytes of telemetry data into a single, trusted, Snowflake-native platform. As organizations shift from reactive monitoring to proactive, automated troubleshooting, the implementation experience becomes a critical driver of product value.\nSolutions Architects are the architectural foundation of the Observe post-sales practice. They bring deep platform and observability domain expertise to design durable, scalable architectures, ensuring every enterprise implementation starts with a sound technical foundation that Implementation Engineers (IEs) execute with confidence and customers build on for years. By owning the architecture layer, and establishing shared standards that demonstrate what great looks like, Solutions Architects multiply the effectiveness of the entire go-to-market team.\nThis role is ideal for a technically exceptional practitioner who has moved beyond execution into architecture. 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Solutions Architect, Staff/Principal engineer, observability engineer, or SRE; with a demonstrated shift from hands-on execution to architecture-level thinking\n\nDeep expertise in observability platforms and telemetry systems at scale, including data modeling tradeoffs across logs, metrics, and traces\n\nStrong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry: instrumentation strategies, collector configuration, exporters, and multi-signal pipeline design\n\nProven ability to design or lead migrations from commercial observability platforms (Splunk, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace) to modern alternatives\n\nExperience assessing complex enterprise environments and producing architectural designs that are durable, scalable, and practical to implement\n\nSolid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerized workloads, and Kubernetes-based environments\n\nStrong communication skills; credible with both hands-on engineering teams and senior technical leadership\n\nExperience producing high-quality technical documentation: architecture diagrams, design decision records, runbooks, implementation plans\n\nExposure to AI-assisted observability or AIOps\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\nBackground in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps with firsthand experience operating production observability at scale\n\nExperience authoring internal standards, reference architectures, and enablement content for post-sales or pre-sales teams\n\nExperience building or maintaining demo or lab environments for internal field teams\n\nFamiliarity with Kubernetes-native observability patterns and cloud-native monitoring tooling\n\nExperience working in or alongside professional services organizations\n\nExperience working directly with Observe.\n\nKEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS\nTime-to-first-value for new Observe customers\n\nCustomer satisfaction scores (post-engagement NPS/CSAT)\n\nOn-time and on-scope delivery rate\n\nEscalation rate and time to resolution\n\nObserve consumption growth attributable to successful implementations\n\nSnowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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