Senior DataOps Engineer - Snowflake Cost & Perf | PTO

Anvilogic; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in company

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Unlimited paid time off

401(k) with company match

Internet and cell phone stipend

Job summary

Anvilogic, a Palo Alto–based AI cybersecurity startup, is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to own the health, cost, and performance of Snowflake environments for customers. You will onboard new customers, optimize queries and costs, and serve as a data platform expert for Customer Success and Sales Engineering.

You'll work across Databricks, Terraform, and Python, automate tasks, and guide customers operating their own platforms.

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.

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

Advanced SQL

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

Terraform

Grafana

Sentry

Job description

Anvilogic, a Palo Alto–based AI cybersecurity startup, is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to own the health, cost, and performance of Snowflake environments for customers. You will onboard new customers, optimize queries and costs, and serve as a data platform expert for Customer Success and Sales Engineering.

You'll work across Databricks, Terraform, and Python, automate tasks, and guide customers operating their own platforms.