Senior Snowflake Engineer

Apexon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apexon is seeking a Senior Snowflake Engineer to join our team in Toronto, Canada. You will design and implement Snowflake-native data solutions, work with Snowpark, Python, and ETL/ELT tooling to build a modern cloud data platform.

You will optimize performance, security, and costs, build scalable pipelines with dbt, Fivetran, Matillion and others, and contribute to CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Terraform.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable Snowflake-native data platforms.
• Strong experience with Python and SQL for analytics pipelines.
• Proven ability to optimize performance, cost, and security in Snowflake.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for data engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable Snowflake-native solutions.
• Develop high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Optimize Snowflake performance, cost, and security.
• Build Snowpark applications and developer utilities.
• Drive automation, CI/CD, and best practices for modern data platforms.

Skills

Snowflake

Snowpark

Snowpipe

Streams & Tasks

Python

Advanced SQL

ETL/ELT

Data Modeling

Query Performance Tuning

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Tools

dbt

Fivetran

Matillion

Airbyte

StreamSets

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

We're Hiring | Senior Snowflake Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Senior Snowflake Engineer to join a team building a modern cloud data platform. If you're passionate about Snowflake, Snowpark, Python, ETL/ELT, and cloud data engineering, we'd love to connect!

• Snowflake (Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks)
• ETL/ELT Development (dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Airbyte, StreamSets)
• Python & Advanced SQL
• Data Modeling (Medallion, Star Schema, Data Vault)
• Query Performance Tuning & Optimization
• CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Terraform

Nice to Have

What You'll Do

• Design and build scalable Snowflake-native solutions
• Develop high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines
• Optimize Snowflake performance, cost, and security
• Build Snowpark applications and developer utilities
• Drive automation, CI/CD, and best practices for modern data platforms