Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of Snowflake platform operations and ensure its health across development, testing, and production environments.

• Maintain accountability and keep an inventory of essential platform assets.

• Design and automate role-based access, object ownership, grants, and controls for the access lifecycle.

• Collaborate with Identity and Security teams to enforce least-privilege access, integrate identities, conduct access reviews, and manage removals.

• Address platform issues related to workloads, data ingestion, dependencies, authentication, and data freshness.

• Conduct root-cause analyses and implement long-lasting solutions.

• Set up monitoring and alert systems to detect issues before they impact users.

• Develop production support practices, including runbooks, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and rollback capabilities.

• Engage in incident response and evaluate recovery strategies.

• Cross-train team members to mitigate single points of dependency.

• Oversee Snowflake consumption visibility, analyze trends, create forecasts, set thresholds, and optimize warehouses/workloads.

• Enhance change management through version control, testing, peer reviews, automation, and controlled promotions.

• Coordinate release readiness and regression testing across Snowflake, connected applications, vendor integrations, and AWS dependencies.

• Provide reports on reliability, access hygiene, consumption, and any outstanding risks.

• Streamline platform complexity, create reusable automation, maintain documentation, and utilize AI thoughtfully while safeguarding data and production quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering, or equivalent technical expertise.

• Significant hands-on experience managing Snowflake in a production environment.

• Proficient in SQL and Python.

• Experience in automating operational tasks and troubleshooting complex production issues.

• Extensive practical knowledge of Snowflake security and operations, including roles, grants, object ownership, warehouses, tasks, stored procedures, and operational telemetry.

• Experience in managing enterprise identities, service credentials, implementing least-privilege access, and controls for the access lifecycle.

• Capability to comprehend platform consumption and optimize workloads for cost, performance, and reliability.

• Familiarity with Git-based development, peer reviews, automated testing, controlled releases, monitoring, incident response, and documented recovery processes.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.

• Comfort with screen work, basic hand coordination, focus, regular use of computers/devices, clear communication, and occasional movement.

• Reasonable accommodations may be provided for individuals with disabilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• 99% of the premium covered for medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Company-funded life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits.

• Optional plans available to customize coverage.

• Dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% on eligible 401(k) contributions.

• Long-term stock incentives and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

• Discretionary bonuses awarded quarterly.

• Highly flexible wellness benefits.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Paid holidays.

• Company-wide shutdowns.