Lead OSS Developer Advocate

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We're looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to join our Open Source Developer Relations team, with a focus on strengthening Snowflake's engagement with the broader open source ecosystem.

In this role, you'll champion Snowflake's open source projects and investments in key open source foundations and communities, including the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, CNCF, Jupyter Foundation, NumFOCUS, and others. You'll serve as a bridge between Snowflake's internal teams and the open source world-helping shape our open source strategy, defining and promoting best practices, and supporting internal contributors through an evolving Open Source Program Office (OSPO).

You'll also take the lead in growing community and developer engagement around Snowflake's open source technologies. This includes building compelling demos and tutorials, creating content (blogs, videos, and talks), and contributing to community forums and conferences. You'll help developers get hands-on with projects like Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris (incubating), Apache NiFi, Modin, PostgreSQL, and Streamlit, and bring valuable product feedback and community insights back to our teams.

Your impact will be measured by increased visibility of Snowflake's open source initiatives, stronger ties with external projects and foundations, and growing the community of contributors and users who are empowered to build with Snowflake and open source side by side.

• Serve as the Developer Relations representative in the Snowflake OSPO

  • Define clear policies, best practices, and governance structures

  • Collaborate with Snowflake's engineering, legal, and security teams to ensure our contributions and projects are well-managed, compliant, and sustainable

  • Define and own metrics to measure the success of our OSPO initiatives

  • Assess Snowflake's support of existing open source projects, identify where more or less support is needed, and advocate for new projects

• Represent Snowflake in key open source foundations (e.g., Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, CNCF, Jupyter Foundation, NumFOCUS)

• Create and maintain developer-friendly data engineering resources, such as open source demos and software tools, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, and tutorials

• Engage OSS communities across GitHub, Discourse, Reddit, X and LinkedIn to gather feedback, foster collaboration, and channel insights into impactful programs and resources around Snowflake projects such as Streamlit, Iceberg, Python, Postgres, Polaris

• Travel to speak at open source and developer-focused conferences and represent Snowflake in the broader data and OSS ecosystems

• Prior experience working with open source foundations a requirement (e.g., Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, CNCF, Jupyter Foundation, NumFOCUS)

• Hands-on experience with open source projects and technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris (incubating), Apache NiFi, Modin, PostgreSQL, and Streamlit; comfortable writing code sample projects, demos, or tutorials in Python and SQL at minimum

• A background in developer relations, technical writing, software engineering or related role

• Deep relationship within the open source community and ecosystem

• Experience working within cross-functional teams (product management, marketing, product engineering, support, customer success, etc).

• Knowledge of Snowflake technology focus areas such as Data Engineering, Gen AI, Data Science, Machine Learning is a plus

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $162,000 - $226,800.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.