Data Platform Engineer: Snowflake, Terraform & Governance

Paxos; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxos is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own Snowflake account management, security, and data governance through Terraform-based IaC. You will design modules for roles, access controls, masking policies, data classification, and resource provisioning in a regulated fintech environment.

The role requires deep Snowflake administration experience, production Terraform skills, and familiarity with Terragrunt, Python, and AI-assisted workflows to drive secure, automated data infrastructure across

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles.
• Deep Snowflake administration including RBAC, warehouses, masking policies, governance tags, network policies, storage integrations, and Snowpipe.
• Production Terraform experience with module development, state management, and import workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Snowflake account management (roles, warehouses, databases, grants, integrations).
• Implement and manage RBAC, data governance tags, and dynamic masking policies in Snowflake via IaC.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake infra changes using GitHub Actions.
• Manage Snowflake security configurations including network policies, service accounts, and identity provider integrations.
• Optimize Snowflake resource utilization, warehouse performance, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to define and enforce data governance policies and data classification standards.
• Build monitoring and alerting for infra drift detection and compliance.
• Contribute to data lake architecture improvements, including Iceberg/open table format adoption.

Skills

Data engineering

Data governance

Python

AI tooling usage

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Snowflake

GitHub Actions

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Paxos is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own Snowflake account management, security, and data governance through Terraform-based IaC. You will design modules for roles, access controls, masking policies, data classification, and resource provisioning in a regulated fintech environment.

The role requires deep Snowflake administration experience, production Terraform skills, and familiarity with Terragrunt, Python, and AI-assisted workflows to drive secure, automated data infrastructure across