Job Title: Platform/SRE Engineer(Snowflake-focused)
Location: Charlotte, NC, Denver, CO, or Seattle WA
FTE/Perm
Job Description
Platform Engineer
About the Role:
Seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Operations
team. You will build, automate, and operate our cloud-based data platform with
a primary focus on Snowflake, CI/CD, and AWS/Azure cloud services. This is a
hands-on engineering role focused on improving platform reliability,
scalability, automation, and operational excellence. You'll partner closely
with Data Engineering and Infrastructure teams to eliminate operational toil
through automation, modern deployment practices, and observability.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Engineering
- Operate
and continuously improve our cloud-based data platform with a primary
focus on Snowflake.
- Build
automation that improves platform reliability, scalability, and
operational efficiency.
- Monitor
platform health, performance, availability, and cost while proactively
identifying opportunities for improvement.
Snowflake Platform
- Administer
Snowflake environments, including security, RBAC, warehouses, databases,
schemas, and resource optimization.
- Monitor
and tune query performance, warehouse utilization, and platform costs.
- Support
secure data sharing, governance, and operational best practices.
Cloud & Platform Automation
- Design,
build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database and platform deployments
using GitLab and tools such as Liquibase or Redgate.
- Automate
deployments and operational workflows using Python, SQL, Bash, or similar
scripting languages.
- Support
integrations between Snowflake and AWS/Azure services, including object
storage, serverless functions, messaging, and identity services.
Data Platform Operations
- Support
ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming platforms, including Confluent Kafka.
- Troubleshoot
production issues across data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and
platform services.
- Improve
operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, logging, and
observability.
Operational Support
- Participate
in an on-call rotation to support production data platform services and
respond to critical incidents.
- Perform
root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes to improve
platform reliability and reduce recurring incidents.
- Collaborate
with cross-functional teams during incident response and post-incident
reviews.
Security & Reliability
- Implement
and maintain IAM, auditing, logging, and security controls across the
platform.
- Promote
automation-first operational practices and platform engineering standards.
Collaboration
- Partner
with Data Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, and business
stakeholders to deliver reliable platform services.
- Contribute
to platform architecture discussions and operational best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 4+
years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps,
Site Reliability Engineering, or Data Platform Operations.
- Strong
hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake.
- Designing
and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for database or platform deployments.
- Working
with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
- Supporting
ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming technologies such as Confluent Kafka.
- Strong
scripting skills using Python, SQL, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience
with Git-based development workflows.
- Supporting
production systems in an on-call or operational support environment.
- Strong
troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems,
and production environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or
CloudFormation).
- Workflow
orchestration tools such as Airflow.
- Serverless
and event-driven architectures.
- Cloud
monitoring, observability, and cost optimization tools.
- Supporting enterprise data platforms.
A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum base salary for this position is $130 K to $150 K per year with Bonus. Employee benefits will also be available, and details are available like Pension/401K/ Paid Vacation/ Life, Medical & Dental insurance etc.
* The pay range listed above reflects the expected
starting salary /Pay rate for this role. This range may be adjusted based on
market conditions, location, and other relevant factors. The Company will
determine the final starting salary/Pay rate in consultation with the selected
candidate(s), in full compliance with applicable laws
