Remote Snowflake Platform Engineer: Terraform & Pipelines

JD Power; California (MO); Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Remote-friendly workplace

Job summary

JD Power seeks a Data Platform Engineer to build and operate Snowflake objects, pipelines, and tooling in a remote-friendly role for the USA/Canada region. You will extend patterns, manage CI/CD for database changes, and own ingestion workflows while growing into a senior platform engineer.

You will collaborate with the Senior Engineer on architecture, security policies, and cost optimization. You will grow Snowflake, Terraform, and the JD Power data stack through hands-on work, code reviews,

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software, data, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong SQL - comfortable with joins, window functions, CTEs, and reading explain plans.
• Python for scripting, automation, and data work.
• Cloud data warehouse experience - Snowflake preferred; recent Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks SQL experience considered.
• Version control discipline - Git workflows with branching, code review, and CI/CD.
• Some Infrastructure-as-Code exposure - Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of dbt - reading models, writing tests, and running dbt builds in CI.
• Cloud fluency in AWS or Azure - IAM, storage, and basic networking.
• Production experience - shipped code to production and on-call or live support.
• Communication - clear PR descriptions and good documentation.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS list including Snowflake in production, dbt, SnowPro Core, CI/CD tooling, ingestion tools, data observability.

Responsibilities

• Implement Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform per established patterns.
• Author database migrations using Schemachange/Liquibase and deploy through CI/CD.
• Own and operate the CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys dbt models in production.
• Apply masking and row-access policies to new data domains as they onboard.
• Tune queries and warehouses using profiling techniques.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain ingestion pipelines for assigned source systems.
• Manage Fivetran/Airbyte connectors for sources V.
• Build Snowpipe and Streams/Tasks workflows for ingestion patterns.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering to land data in downstream models.
• Participate in on-call rotation (target month 3-4), respond to alerts and write postmortems.
• Drive ramp on Snowflake, Terraform, and JD Power data stack; contribute to docs and onboarding.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Terraform

dbt

CI/CD

Git

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Data pipelines

On-call support

Tools

Snowpipe

Fivetran/Airbyte

dbt

Liquibase

Schemachange

Job description

JD Power seeks a Data Platform Engineer to build and operate Snowflake objects, pipelines, and tooling in a remote-friendly role for the USA/Canada region. You will extend patterns, manage CI/CD for database changes, and own ingestion workflows while growing into a senior platform engineer.

You will collaborate with the Senior Engineer on architecture, security policies, and cost optimization. You will grow Snowflake, Terraform, and the JD Power data stack through hands-on work, code reviews,