Data Platform Engineer — Secure, Scalable DataOps

Appfolio; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Data Engineer for the Business Data Platform to own observability, testing, and CI/CD architecture across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools. You will manage access controls, encryption standards, and governance while partnering with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy.

You will collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to enable self‑service capabilities and scalable data delivery across our cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DataOps, Data Platform Engineering, DevOps, or related roles within modern cloud data environments.
• Proficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Airflow, Mulesoft, Linux scripting, and dbt.
• Strong Experience with cloud technology, especially AWS tech stack (s3, ec2, eks), Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud data warehouse technology, such as Snowflake, including data security and governance.
• Advanced proficiency with Airflow.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, codespaces, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform etc.).
• Experience with building self‑serve processes.
• Familiarity with security standards and practices for data (IAM, encryption, audit logging).
• Familiar with Snowflake RBAC, object privileges, masking policies, row‑access policies, and secure UDFs/SPROCs to support both data engineering and ML/AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and maintenance of the data platform's observability and testing solutions to identify reliability and data quality issues.
• Own the CI/CD architecture for Github repositories and deployment pipelines across teams.
• Manage service accounts, roles, and permissions across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools.
• Define and own Data Pipeline SLOs and data access controls and encryption standards.
• Partner with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy frameworks across the platform.
• Maintain lineage and metadata documentation across key data domains.
• Implement infrastructure‑as‑code for data platform components and drive automation of routine operations.

Skills

SQL

Python

Airflow

CI/CD pipelines

Snowflake governance

IAM & security

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

dbt

GitOps

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Data Engineer for the Business Data Platform to own observability, testing, and CI/CD architecture across Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools. You will manage access controls, encryption standards, and governance while partnering with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure auditability and privacy.

You will collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to enable self‑service capabilities and scalable data delivery across our cloud environment.