At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. 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. Senior Cloud Support Engineer (CSE). JOB DESCRIPTION
Задачи
As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, you manage customer cases and are accountable for accelerating their time-to-resolution, ensuring platform stability, and driving a world-class support experience
Operating as a full-stack technical support resource, this role blends deep hands-on troubleshooting with the customer empathy and communication skills of a trusted advisor
Customer Value and Incident Ownership
Own the Customer Experience: Manage customer issues from initial triage through resolution and follow-up, ensuring clear communication and timely updates
Deliver Support Value with AI: Leverage AI assistants and diagnostics to accelerate triage and root-cause analysis while maintaining accuracy and safety standards
Outcome-Based Support: Focus on business impact, ensuring resolutions fix issues, reduce recurrence, and improve reliability
Customer Empathy and Communication: Provide technical analysis and guidance via email, web, and phone, adapting to customer expertise levels
Technical Execution and Collaboration
AI-Assisted Triage: Use AI to summarize logs, generate hypotheses, and draft responses—critically validating outputs before sharing
Tooling Expertise: Utilize Snowflake environment, connectors, and internal tools to investigate and test solutions
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to resolve systemic issues
Knowledge Management: Document solutions in knowledge bases, refining AI-assisted drafts for quality
Feedback and Innovation: Provide input on product behavior, documentation gaps, and AI-tool performance
Bug Reporting: Document and collaborate on bugs and feature requests with engineering teams
Operational Coverage: Support holiday/weekend rotations and on-call requirements
Special Requirement
Ability to work a shift schedule from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM JST, including a 1-hour break
May require schedule flexibility and shift changes based on business needs
Требования
5+ years of experience in technical support (customer-facing, ideally 24x7)
Strong AI fluency, including prompt engineering, context management, and the ability to critically validate AI outputs and know when to fall back to manual investigation
Experience with AI-powered tooling (e.g., coding assistants/agentic IDEs) and modern support environments
Solid technical troubleshooting skills, including comfort with SQL
Strong knowledge of at least one major RDBMS
In-depth understanding of SQL data types, aggregations, and advanced functions including analytical/window functions
Proven experience with query lifecycle, profiles, and execution/explain plans
Advanced skills in interpreting SQL queries and execution workflow logic
Proficiency with JSON, XML, and other semi-structured data formats
Experience with querying and transforming semi-structured data
In-depth knowledge of various caching mechanisms and ability to take advantage of caching strategies to enhance performance
Major cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Basic understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices
A deep understanding of resource locks and experience with managing concurrent transactions
Strong written/verbal Japanese communication
Basic verbal communication skills in English
Intermediate or higher English reading and writing skills