Attentive

Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Attentive

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $144,840 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBGradleGraphQLJavaKubernetesMicroservicesOpen SourcePandasPostgresPythonPyTorchReactRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootTensorflowTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Manage, optimize, and secure the Snowflake environment to ensure reliable, high-performance access to data at scale
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, Spacelift, etc.) for consistent and auditable environments
  • Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and SLA enforcement to keep the platform highly available and resilient
  • Optimize queries, storage, and compute usage to deliver fast, cost-efficient workloads
  • Enforce security policies, access controls, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC2) across the platform
  • Automate workflows, streamline operational processes, and maintain clear documentation and runbooks
  • Partner closely with our Snowflake account team to ensure alignment and accountability
  • Collaborate with BI, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to support evolving data needs and accelerate product delivery

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing Snowflake at scale, including administration, monitoring, scaling, and optimization
  • Strong background with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent)
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, query performance tuning, and workload cost optimization
  • Hands-on experience implementing security, compliance, and governance controls in data platforms (e.g., SOC2)
  • Proficiency in automation (scripting, workflows) and operational excellence (runbooks, escalation processes)
  • Strong collaboration skills, with experience partnering across BI, ML, Product, and Data Science teams
  • Ability to train, enable, and influence teams to adopt best practices in Snowflake performance and security
  • Curiosity and drive to stay ahead of Snowflake advancements, cloud infrastructure trends, and data platform best practices
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Datadog, Istio, Helm, AWS services, and related data tooling (DynamoDB, Kinesis, Airflow, Postgres, Redis)