Solutions Architect, Observe

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Snowflake

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Cloud Computing

Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that provides a platform for data storage, processing, and analytics. It allows businesses to store data in a centralized location and perform complex queries and analytics on that data efficiently. Snowflake is designed to handle a wide range of data workloads and can scale dynamically to meet the needs of growing businesses.

📋 Description

• Participate in technical discovery for SA-attached engagements alongside Implementation Engineers • Assess telemetry, infrastructure, data volumes, tooling, and operational requirements • Design end-to-end Observe observability architectures covering ingestion, pipeline topology, data modeling, enrichment, normalization, alerting, and retention • Define implementation approaches and architecture blueprints for Implementation Engineering teams • Validate configurations, pipelines, and data models against production-scale requirements • Advise customers on OpenTelemetry adoption strategies • Lead architecture and planning phases from kickoff through handoff to dedicated Implementation Engineer teams • Produce reference architectures, design decision records, implementation plans, and configuration standards • Support Implementation teams with architectural blockers, scope changes, and architecture decisions • Conduct go-live architecture reviews for production readiness • Design target architectures and phased cutover strategies for migrations from existing observability platforms • Identify architectural gaps, data-quality risks, and technical debt and design scalable replacements • Develop and own internal reference architectures, design documents, runbooks, and implementation standards • Build and maintain production-grade field demo infrastructure • Capture reusable field patterns and turn them into assets for the broader Implementation Engineering team • Serve as technical authority on complex or novel customer scenarios • Mentor and level up junior Implementation Engineers • Contribute to adjacent-solution integration, process re-engineering, and AI refactoring • Share field insights with Product and Engineering to influence the platform roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Staff/Principal Engineer, observability engineer, or SRE • Demonstrated shift from hands-on execution to architecture-level thinking • Deep expertise in observability platforms and telemetry systems at scale, including data modeling tradeoffs across logs, metrics, and traces • Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation strategies, collector configuration, exporters, and multi-signal pipeline design • Proven ability to design or lead migrations from Splunk, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace to modern alternatives • Experience assessing complex enterprise environments and producing durable, scalable, practical architectural designs • Solid understanding of AWS, GCP, Azure, containerized workloads, and Kubernetes-based environments • Strong communication skills with engineering teams and senior technical leadership • Experience producing technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decision records, runbooks, and implementation plans • Exposure to AI-assisted observability or AIOps • Current authorization to work in the country to which the candidate is applying

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary information provided: $160K–$210K base compensation range • Equal employment opportunity • Voluntary self-identification and confidential handling of demographic, veteran, and disability information • Snowflake Candidate Privacy Notice