Senior Data Ops Engineer: Snowflake & Databricks Expert

Cervin; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in company

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

401(k) retirement plan with company 4%

Internet and cell phone stipend

Job summary

Anvilogic, Palo Alto-based, is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to manage Snowflake environments for customers, driving reliability, cost efficiency, and scalable data practices.

You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, optimize queries, and act as a liaison between Customer Success and Sales Engineering on complex data platform issues. Join a fast-growing security tech company.

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

Data operations

SQL optimization

Cost optimization

Excellent communication

On-call readiness

Tools

Snowflake

Python

Terraform

Databricks

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

Anvilogic, Palo Alto-based, is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to manage Snowflake environments for customers, driving reliability, cost efficiency, and scalable data practices.

You will onboard new customers, monitor environments, optimize queries, and act as a liaison between Customer Success and Sales Engineering on complex data platform issues. Join a fast-growing security tech company.