Senior Snowflake Data Engineer — Platform Reliability

News Corp

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Rx coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Family formation benefits

13 paid holidays

Flexible time off

Volunteer time off

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Financial planning sessions

Student debt matching

Office snacks

Job summary

News Corp in Austin is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the administration, reliability, and evolution of the enterprise Snowflake platform for Realtor.com Data Operations. You will keep production data pipelines dependable while strengthening monitoring, automation, security and compliance controls, and mentoring Snowflake admins.

The role supports a platform used by 900+ users for petabyte-scale analytics, collaborating with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Product teams.

Qualifications

8+ years in data platform engineering or DBA roles.
4+ years administering and optimizing Snowflake in production.
Strong SQL skills including data structures and dimensional modeling.
Proficient in Python for automation and workflows.
Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.
Familiar with cloud architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IaC.
Experience with Agile/Scrum processes.

Responsibilities

Deliver, maintain, and evolve the Snowflake Data Warehouse for petabyte-scale analytics.
Perform incident response and root cause analysis for production data pipelines.
Prioritize platform requests and maintain runbooks and SLA tracking.
Document architecture, onboarding guides, and runbooks.