Own the operational health, availability, and performance of Snowflake environments supporting analytics and data workloads
Define and implement reliability goals (SLIs/SLOs) for Snowflake and data-platform services
Monitor Snowflake usage, performance, and concurrency to proactively identify risks and bottlenecks
Lead incident response for Snowflake-related production issues, including performance degradation and availability concerns
Automate Snowflake administration tasks such as account and environment provisioning, role-based access control, resource and warehouse management, and usage and cost monitoring
Build infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions for Snowflake and supporting cloud services
Reduce operational toil by building self-service workflows and guardrails for data teams
Implement monitoring and alerting for Snowflake performance, query behavior, and system health
Partner with stakeholders to drive cost optimization, usage governance, and capacity planning
Improve security posture through least-privilege access, auditing, and compliance-aligned controls
Partner with data engineering teams to support reliable CI/CD pipelines for data workloads
Work closely with analytics, platform, and security teams to ensure Snowflake is reliable by design
Contribute to operational standards, documentation, and best practices for data platforms
Mentor engineers and help mature SRE practices within the data ecosystem

Requirements

5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles
4+ years of hands-on experience administering Snowflake in production environments
Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, including compute, storage, virtual warehouses, and security
Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, SQL, Bash)
Experience operating in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Experience supporting data pipelines or analytics platforms in production
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience

Benefits

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Snowflake administrationInfrastructure-as-codePolicy-as-codeAutomationScriptingPythonSQLBashCI/CD pipelinesMonitoring and alerting

Soft Skills

Incident responseMentoringCollaborationCost optimizationCapacity planningDocumentationBest practices

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering