
DataOps Engineer
Empower
full-time
Posted on:
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
DataOpsSnowflakeSQLTerraformdbtPythonBashKafkaAirflowdata quality
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationincident triagecustomer communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationanalytical thinkingattention to detailorganizational skillsadaptability