Senior Data Engineer — Scale Snowflake Pipelines

Photon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is a Digital Engineering and Digital Modernization partner founded in 1999, delivering AI, cloud-native, and next-generation digital solutions to Fortune 500 clients. We seek a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and warehouse models on Snowflake, turning raw data into trusted datasets for analytics and downstream apps.

You will collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams, implement data quality checks, and optimize performance and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience or closely related field.
• Strong Python skills and scripting (e.g., Bash).
• Advanced SQL including joins, window functions, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience (warehouses, stages, tasks, streams, RBAC).
• Solid data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and ETL/ELT understanding.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate batch and incremental data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Develop and optimize Snowflake data models and transformations.
• Write automation scripts to orchestrate and monitor data workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Bash

Data Pipelines

Data Modeling

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

AWS

GCP

Job description

Photon is a Digital Engineering and Digital Modernization partner founded in 1999, delivering AI, cloud-native, and next-generation digital solutions to Fortune 500 clients. We seek a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and warehouse models on Snowflake, turning raw data into trusted datasets for analytics and downstream apps.

You will collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams, implement data quality checks, and optimize performance and