Snowflake's Operational Excellence Playbook: Building Trust Through Customer-Centric Platform Engineering
Insights from Gilad Turbahn (Head of Developer Productivity) and Amy Yuan (Director of Engineering)
Operational excellence for platform teams isn't just about reliable systems—it's about building trust through treating internal engineering teams as customers. This playbook synthesizes Snowflake's proven approach to establishing operational excellence through customer engagement, feedback loops, and systematic trust-building. The key insight: platform teams must operate with the same reliability and customer focus as external product teams to drive adoption and create volunteers who advocate for the platform.