Director of Frontier Engineering & AI Platforms

Snowflake; The Rocks; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Director of Engineering for Frontier Engineering. You will build and scale a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and operate with executive presence in front of customers, shaping engagements and driving Snowflake capabilities with a hands-on technical leadership style.

You will lead across multiple countries and time zones, attract top engineering talent, and partner with Sales, Product, and the global Frontier Engineering team to translate customer

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant time leading engineering teams, including managing managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a sizeable, multi-country engineering organization.
• Set the technical and operating vision for Frontier Engineering: how FDE teams scope, build, and ship on Snowflake capabilities such as Snowpark, Cortex AI, and Snowflake Horizon.
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader, partnering directly with customer executives to shape engineering engagements and earn trust as a hands-on technical leader, not only a relationship owner.
• Attract and hire exceptional engineering talent, drawing on your own network to fill open roles, and coach and develop managers and senior engineers.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Executive presence

Multi-country teams

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Director of Engineering for Frontier Engineering. You will build and scale a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and operate with executive presence in front of customers, shaping engagements and driving Snowflake capabilities with a hands-on technical leadership style.

You will lead across multiple countries and time zones, attract top engineering talent, and partner with Sales, Product, and the global Frontier Engineering team to translate customer