Snowflake
Solutions Architect, Observe
US, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
Solutions Architects design durable and scalable observability architectures for the Observe business unit. They perform technical discovery, create architecture blueprints, and advise customers on OpenTelemetry adoption.
What you will do
- Perform technical discovery to assess telemetry, infrastructure, and data volumes
- Design end-to-end observability architectures on Observe
- Define implementation approaches and architecture blueprints
- Validate configurations and data models for production-scale requirements
- Advise customers on OpenTelemetry adoption strategies
- Produce handoff artifacts like reference architectures and design decision records
- Support Implementation teams during execution for architectural blockers
- Conduct formal go-live architecture reviews
- Design target architectures and phased cutover strategies for migrations from existing platforms
- Develop internal reference architectures, design documents, and runbooks
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Staff/Principal engineer, observability engineer, or SRE
- Deep expertise in observability platforms and telemetry systems at scale
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry
- Proven ability to design or lead migrations from commercial observability platforms
- Experience assessing complex enterprise environments and producing architectural designs
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerized workloads, and Kubernetes-based environments
- Strong communication skills
- Experience producing high-quality technical documentation
Nice to have
- Background in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps
- Experience authoring internal standards, reference architectures, and enablement content
- Experience building or maintaining demo or lab environments
- Familiarity with Kubernetes-native observability patterns and cloud-native monitoring tooling
- Experience working in or alongside professional services organizations
- Experience working directly with Observe
About the company
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The Observe business unit delivers AI-powered observability at enterprise scale.