Senior Snowflake Database Engineer — Hybrid

Cvent, Inc.; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cvent is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with deep Snowflake expertise to help design, manage, optimize, and secure our enterprise data platform across Cvent's portfolio of products. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on Snowflake administration and experience with cloud database technologies, plus automation for scalable deployments.

You will work with development and data teams to implement, optimize, and secure data stores powering Cvent's products, using Terraform, CloudFormation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 4-7 years of experience in database or data platform engineering, with at least 3 years of hands-on Snowflake administration.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake, including: virtual warehouse management and cost optimization, security model (RBAC, data masking, network policies), data sharing and failover groups, Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, and CDC patterns, performance tuning with query profiling, clustering keys, and materialized views.
• Experience managing highly available databases in AWS (Aurora, RDS, Redshift, or DynamoDB).
• Expertise in Python or PowerShell scripting for automation and pipeline support.
• Deep understanding of database security principles — encryption, access control, auditing, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, or GDPR).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT orchestration tools such as dbt, Apache Airflow, or AWS Glue in Snowflake pipelines.
• Strong understanding of SQL and data modeling principles, including normalization, dimensional modeling, and schema design.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, optimize, and secure Cvent's enterprise data platform across products.
• Collaborate with development and data engineering teams to implement and automate Snowflake environments at scale.
• Evaluate and improve standards to ensure resilient, scalable, and secure data platforms.

Skills

Snowflake

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

SQL

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

dbt

Apache Airflow

AWS Glue

Snowpipe Streaming

Job description

Cvent is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with deep Snowflake expertise to help design, manage, optimize, and secure our enterprise data platform across Cvent's portfolio of products. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on Snowflake administration and experience with cloud database technologies, plus automation for scalable deployments.

You will work with development and data teams to implement, optimize, and secure data stores powering Cvent's products, using Terraform, CloudFormation,