Director of Engineering, Frontier Engineering

The role

You will build and scale a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers. You will lead a multi-country engineering organization and partner with customer executives to shape engineering engagements on the AI Data Cloud.

What you will do

• Lead a sizeable, multi-country engineering organization
• Set the technical and operating vision for Frontier Engineering
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader partnering with customer executives
• Attract and hire exceptional engineering talent
• Coach and develop managers and senior engineers
• Partner with Sales, Product, and the global Frontier Engineering organization

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• Significant time leading engineering teams, including managing managers
• Built and shipped production software
• Proven experience building or scaling Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) style teams, or embedded engineering teams that build directly with and for customers
• Strong customer-facing executive presence
• Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple countries and time zones, ideally across APJ
• Demonstrated ability to attract senior engineering talent through an established network
• Comfort with ambiguity and organizational change
• Experience with cloud data platforms, AI/ML, or modern data and application development

Nice to have

• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake or comparable cloud data and AI platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks)
• Experience building with GenAI and agentic application patterns in production

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. Frontier Engineering is Snowflake's forward deployed engineering practice consisting of senior engineers and engineering leaders who embed with strategic customers.