Empower

DataOps Engineer

Empower

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $87,400 - $123,400 per year

About the role

  • Own the DataOps lifecycle for our Snowflake-on-AWS platform
  • Turn data products into reliable services with SLAs/SLOs
  • Automate promotion across environments
  • Engineer idempotent pipelines using Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka, and orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Step Functions/Lambda)
  • Implement the data test pyramid: column/row checks, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and end-to-end validation.
  • Automate PII classification and object TAGS; enforce tag-based masking, row access policies, RBAC role families, and network policies.
  • Lead data incident triage, customer comms, RCAs, and post-incident hardening.
  • Track queries, warehouse utilization, and job cost; implement guardrails.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or related; equivalent practical experience welcomed.
  • 5–8+ years in data engineering/analytics platform roles with 3+ years operating Snowflake in production.
  • DataOps skills: You’ve shipped contract-first pipelines, automated tests, and environment promotion at scale; you measure success with SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
  • Snowflake depth: Warehouses, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe /Kafka Connector, search optimization, materialized views, replication/failover; strong SQL and performance tuning.
  • Automation: Terraform (Snowflake provider), dbt (models/tests/docs), GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps; Python/Bash for tooling and checks.
  • Observability: Building alerts/dashboards from ACCOUNT/ORG usage views; experience with data quality/observability platforms (e.g., GX/Soda/Monte Carlo/Bigeye) a plus.
  • Governance: Practical use of object TAGS, tag-based masking, row access policies, and evidence generation for audits.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
  • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
  • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
  • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
  • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
DataOpsSnowflakeSQLTerraformdbtPythonBashKafkaAirflowdata quality
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationincident triagecustomer communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationanalytical thinkingattention to detailorganizational skillsadaptability