Senior Data Ops Engineer: Snowflake Cost Optimizer

Anvilogic Inc; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical Insurance

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with match

Internet stipend

Job summary

Anvilogic seeks a Senior Data Operations Engineer to manage Snowflake accounts for our customers, optimize costs, and ensure reliability. You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, and provide expert data platform support to Customer Success and Sales Engineering teams.

You will also advise customers running Snowflake and Databricks, participate in on-call rotations, and automate operational tasks with Python and Terraform.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Onboard customers end to end, including account setup, roles, and data ingestion.
• Monitor health and cost of Snowflake accounts and address issues before impact.
• Optimize queries, data formats, and task plans for reliability, performance, and cost.
• Identify and eliminate waste such as unused tasks and oversized warehouses.
• Produce cost reporting and optimization recommendations for internal teams and customers.
• Serve as 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 through documentation and brown bag sessions.

Skills

Snowflake at scale

Advanced SQL

Python

Terraform

On-call incident response

Cost optimization

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Snowflake

Databricks

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

Anvilogic seeks a Senior Data Operations Engineer to manage Snowflake accounts for our customers, optimize costs, and ensure reliability. You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, and provide expert data platform support to Customer Success and Sales Engineering teams.

You will also advise customers running Snowflake and Databricks, participate in on-call rotations, and automate operational tasks with Python and Terraform.