• Drive technical discovery, architecture design, and PoC implementation throughout the pre-sales lifecycle. • Partner with Account Executives and Customer Success Managers to craft compelling technical value propositions. • Deliver high-impact demonstrations, workshops, and proposals tailored to C-level and technical stakeholders. • Cultivate trust and credibility with customers, identifying technical champions and positioning as a strategic advisor. • Liaise between customers and internal Product and Engineering teams to relay feedback and influence product roadmap. • Lead cross-regional technical initiatives and enhance SE tools, processes, and frameworks for global scalability. • Mentor junior team members, foster technical excellence, and share industry best practices across the SE team. • Maintain expert-level knowledge of LaunchDarkly’s platform, integrations, industry trends, and emerging technologies. • Respond to RFPs, and manage technical environments to support enterprise sales motions. • Translate complex client requirements into scalable, sustainable, and technically sound solutions. • Represent LaunchDarkly at industry events and customer engagements through travel as needed.

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. We are looking for a Senior Solution Engineer who is accustomed to solving customer’s most complex problems and closing large deals. In this role you will work directly with the sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business. As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you must share our passion about reinventing the database space, thrive in a dynamic environment and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers - Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation - Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them. - Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE: - 7-8 years of industry experience with a minimum of 5 years within a pre-sales environment - Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos. - Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric - Hands-on expertise with SQL,SQL analytics, and Python. - Possesses a proactive curiosity for the AI landscape, striving to be a visionary and technical thought partner for customers navigating the space. - Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions - Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture. - University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred. Masters in DataScience or Business Administration is a plus. - Experience with GSIs (EY, Deloitte, Accenture, etc), would be beneficial, but not required - Expect approximately 30% travel ABOUT OUR TEAM Our Solution Engineers are customer obsessed and we believe in the value we can add and stay honest about it. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our clients successful. Our team works to ensure data is accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. 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

• Partnering with a Sales Account Executive to engage in technical discussions with customers throughout the buying lifecycle. • Working cross functionally with product marketing, and independently, to create and deliver high fidelity presentations, custom demos, sample solutions, and present use cases to guide the customer through the buying journey • Closely partnering with customers and platform builders to solve technical and business challenges which enables them to design, build and implement Crossplane and Upbound Cloud based control plane architectures. • Working directly with customers and platform builders to define, implement, and test out early proof of concepts of Crossplane and Upbound Cloud. • Collect detailed customer requirements so product and engineering can accurately estimate and resource the necessary implementation services. • The technical voice and trusted advisor to the customer and represent the customer needs internally. • Project manage the account pre and post sale to ensure a smooth and frictionless customer experience through implementation in partnership with Solutions Architect and implementation teams.

• Closely partner with the Upbound pre sales team to transition customers to and through a smooth post sales implementation. • Deeply understand customer environments and requirements, identifying their platform needs, and designing architecture and solutions that delight. • Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane technology into customer production environments. • Perform technical discovery to scope customer engagements and contribute to authoring Statements of Work. • Work directly with customers to troubleshoot and solve technical challenges relating to the implementation phase of deploying Crossplane and Upbound Cloud based control plane architectures into their production environments. • Solve problems and improve customer deployments by writing code, fixing bugs, and building scoped features within Upbound products, the provider ecosystem, and the Crossplane core code base. • Build and maintain a set of cloud native "reference platforms" that will help accelerate adoption and position Crossplane and Upbound as a central piece of the cloud native landscape. See https://github.com/upbound/configuration-aws-eks as an example. • Work cross-departmentally to find solutions to complex scenarios and integration issues. • Be the technical voice of Upbound to the customer, and represent customer needs internally to influence product roadmap. • Be the trusted technical advisor to new and existing customers by identifying and presenting ongoing technical solutions as the Upbound product suite grows.