What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer position at Staffing Spot, Inc.?
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise Snowflake environments across development, QA, and production.
- Architect scalable and highly available Snowflake solutions aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Manage Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, users, resource monitors, and security policies.
- Implement Snowflake security best practices, including RBAC, data masking, row access policies, encryption, and secure data sharing.
- Monitor and optimize Snowflake performance, query execution, warehouse utilization, and overall platform costs.
- Develop and maintain automated deployment processes using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
- Implement Snowflake administration and automation using tools such as Terraform, Python, SQL, and Snowflake APIs.
- Manage integrations between Snowflake and cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Support data ingestion and integration patterns using Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, external stages, APIs, and ETL/ELT tools.
- Establish platform monitoring, alerting, logging, governance, and operational best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex Snowflake performance, connectivity, security, and data platform issues.
- Develop standards and reusable frameworks for Snowflake development and platform operations.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data models, pipelines, and workloads.
- Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Stay current with Snowflake features, cloud technologies, data engineering practices, and platform engineering trends.
- 7 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, cloud engineering, or related roles.
- 4 years of hands-on experience with Snowflake platform engineering or administration.
- Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, security, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Strong SQL and database development experience.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Snowflake features including Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, Time Travel, Zero-Copy Cloning, Secure Data Sharing, and Resource Monitors.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake RBAC, access controls, data governance, and security.
- Experience with Python and/or scripting for automation.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Git and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Salary : $60 - $69