Data Platform Engineer — Secure Data & CI/CD, Hybrid

AppFolio, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio, Inc. is seeking a senior Data Engineer to own the operational backbone of the Business Data Platform.

You’ll lead observability, testing, and governance initiatives to enable reliable analytics, AI, and decision-making across the company. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage access controls and masking policies, and collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and data teams to ensure security and auditability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DataOps, Data Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related roles within modern cloud data environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and maintenance of AppFolio's Business Data Platform's observability and testing solutions that identify reliability, scalability, or data quality issues and strive to continuously improve the platform.
• Own the CI/CD architecture for our Github repositories — build the automated checks, deployment pipelines, and orchestration that every team's changes run through, and keep that platform running as new teams and use cases plug into it.
• Manage service accounts, roles, and permissions across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools.
• Own the creation of and performance of Data Pipeline SLOs.
• Create and enforce data access controls, masking policies, and encryption standards (at rest and in transit).
• Define and own access governance for AI-driven data consumption — scoping Snowflake Coco, MCP server, and agent tool access (e.g., Chat-to-Data) with least-privilege, read-by-default, and full audit logging as agents take on more direct data access.
• Partner with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy frameworks are implemented and upheld across the Business Data Platform.
• Maintain lineage and metadata documentation across key data domains.
• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code for data platform components.
• Drive automation of routine operations (e.g., environment provisioning, credential rotation, usage monitoring).
• Partner with data engineers, data science engineers, data scientists, and analysts to improve platform usability and self-service capabilities.
• Document and evangelize best practices for data access, job orchestration, and environment management.

Skills

DataOps

DevOps mindset

Data governance

Self-service analytics

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

AWS (S3, EC2, EKS)

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Job description

AppFolio, Inc. is seeking a senior Data Engineer to own the operational backbone of the Business Data Platform.

You’ll lead observability, testing, and governance initiatives to enable reliable analytics, AI, and decision-making across the company. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage access controls and masking policies, and collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and data teams to ensure security and auditability.