Director of Engineering, Frontier Engineering

Frontier Engineering is Snowflake's forward deployed engineering practice: senior engineers and engineering leaders who embed with Snowflake's most strategic customers to build on the AI Data Cloud and turn ambitious ideas into production outcomes. As Director of Engineering in Sydney, you will build and scale a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), operating with executive presence in front of customers while staying close to the engineering work.

What you'll do

• Lead a sizeable, multi-country engineering organization.
• Set the technical and operating vision for how FDE teams scope, build and ship on Snowflake capabilities such as Snowpark, Cortex AI and Snowflake Horizon.
• Partner directly with customer executives to shape engineering engagements as a hands-on technical leader.
• Hire exceptional engineering talent and coach managers and senior engineers across countries and time zones.
• Partner with Sales, Product and the global Frontier Engineering organization to connect customer needs to product direction.

What you bring

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including managing managers, and a track record of building and shipping production software.
• Experience building or scaling FDE-style or embedded customer engineering teams.
• Strong customer-facing executive presence; experience leading teams across multiple countries, ideally across APJ.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, AI/ML or modern data and application development; GenAI and agentic production experience is a bonus.

Hybrid role. Full details and application on Snowflake's official careers page.