Senior Data Operations Engineer: Snowflake & Cost Opt

Anvilogic; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Unlimited paid time off

401(k) retirement plan with company

Monthly stipend for home internet and?

Job summary

Anvilogic, a Palo Alto-based AI cybersecurity startup, seeks a Senior Data Operations Engineer to own health, performance, and cost of Snowflake accounts for customers. You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, optimize queries and data formats, and serve as the escalation point for data-platform support.

These production environments power advanced security teams. Responsibilities include onboarding end to end, cost reporting, on-call incident response, and automation with Python

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data operations, data engineering, or database administration.
• 2+ years of experience running Snowflake at scale in production.
• Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated experience with query performance optimization.
• Experience managing and optimizing Snowflake cost, including warehouse sizing, resource monitors, and credit usage.
• Working familiarity with Python and Terraform.
• Experience with on-call rotations and production incident response.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Onboard customers end to end, including account and warehouse setup, roles and permissions, data source ingestion, and Anvilogic application installation.
• Monitor the health and cost of Anvilogic-managed Snowflake accounts and address issues before they impact customers.
• Optimize queries, data formats, and task plans for reliability, performance, and cost.
• Identify and eliminate waste, such as unused tasks, oversized warehouses, and inefficient queries.
• Produce cost reporting and optimization recommendations for internal teams and customers.
• Serve as the escalation point for Customer Success and Sales Engineering on complex Snowflake and Databricks issues.
• Advise customers operating their own Snowflake and Databricks environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Automate operational work using Python and Terraform.
• Spread knowledge of data operations and cost best practices throughout Anvilogic through documentation and brown bag sessions.

Skills

SQL

Production data ops

On-call incident response

Communication

Cost optimization

Python

Terraform

Snowflake

Databricks

Query tuning

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

Terraform

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

Anvilogic, a Palo Alto-based AI cybersecurity startup, seeks a Senior Data Operations Engineer to own health, performance, and cost of Snowflake accounts for customers. You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, optimize queries and data formats, and serve as the escalation point for data-platform support.

These production environments power advanced security teams. Responsibilities include onboarding end to end, cost reporting, on-call incident response, and automation with Python