Senior Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time Snowflake

BuildOps; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Benefits package

Hybrid work schedules

Work-from-home allowance

Office hubs: LA, SF, Toronto, Raleigh

Lunch provided for in‑office days

Growth opportunities

Career advancement

Job summary

BuildOps is hiring a senior data engineer to own meaningful parts of our analytics data platform. You will build and scale ingestion pipelines into Snowflake, move toward near‑real‑time data delivery, and design robust dbt models across product domains.

You will also expand secure data sharing and cross‑platform data sharing capabilities while maintaining governance and cost controls. You will collaborate with on‑call rotations, unblock cross‑functional teams, and mentor engineers while shaping

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering with end‑to‑end pipelines
• Snowflake experience including data sharing and dynamic tables
• Strong dbt skills: incremental models, testing, layered modeling
• Hands‑on CDC/ingestion with Airbyte, Debezium, Streamkap, Fivetran, or Kafka
• Experience with Airflow at production scale
• Strong SQL and Python
• Solid AWS fundamentals
• Experience in multi‑tenant SaaS data environments
• Calm incident response and issue fixing at the right layer
• Clear written communication for design docs and data issues

Responsibilities

• Build and scale ingestion pipelines from MySQL/Postgres sources into Snowflake
• Reduce latency toward near‑real‑time data delivery
• Model dbt layers (staging, intermediate, marts) and ensure correctness and history
• Grow multi‑tenant Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and Iceberg sharing
• Harden platform with instrumentation, deployment process, and cost controls
• Write design docs, review code, mentor engineers, and make durable architecture calls
• Take on on‑call rotations for pipeline incidents and data deliverability
• Unblock product squads and internal analytics with data delivery and governance

Skills

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Airbyte

Debezium

Streamkap

Fivetran

Kafka

SQL

Python

AWS

multi‑tenant SaaS

Incident response

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Airbyte

Streamkap

Sigma

Secoda

AWS

Terraform

Apache Iceberg

Job description

BuildOps is hiring a senior data engineer to own meaningful parts of our analytics data platform. You will build and scale ingestion pipelines into Snowflake, move toward near‑real‑time data delivery, and design robust dbt models across product domains.

You will also expand secure data sharing and cross‑platform data sharing capabilities while maintaining governance and cost controls. You will collaborate with on‑call rotations, unblock cross‑functional teams, and mentor engineers while shaping