Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

praxisprecisionmedicines; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-eligible with travel as needed

Premium health plans (medical, dental,

vision coverage)

401(k) with company match + stock plan

Discretionary bonus and generous PTO

Job summary

praxisprecisionmedicines seeks a senior data platform engineer to own a Snowflake data platform enabling a growing commercial organization. The role emphasizes reliability, security, governance, cost transparency, and automation.

You will partner across Data Engineering, Security, Identity, and AWS teams to keep critical data available and well protected, enabling engineers to build higher-value capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering with substantial Snowflake production work.
• Strong SQL and Python skills for automation and troubleshooting.
• Deep Snowflake security knowledge: roles, grants, ownership, warehouses.
• Experience managing enterprise identities and least-privilege access with Identity & Security teams.
• Ability to analyze platform consumption and balance cost, performance, and reliability.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, automated testing, controlled releases, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Snowflake across development, test, and production with asset inventory.
• Design and automate role-based access, ownership, grants, and lifecycle controls.
• Resolve production issues, build monitoring and early detection capabilities.
• Establish resilient production support with runbooks, escalation paths, and incident response.
• Track consumption by workload and owner, forecast demand, and tune warehouses.
• Coordinate change management across Snowflake, apps, vendor integrations, and AWS dependencies.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake security

Identity & access management

Monitoring & incident response

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Role overview

A senior engineering position focused on owning a Snowflake data platform that supports a growing commercial organization. The role emphasizes platform reliability, security and governance, cost transparency, and automation, partnering across Data Engineering, Security, Identity, and AWS teams to keep critical data available and well protected. Success is measured not just by uptime, but by leaving behind a more observable, automated, and supportable platform that frees engineers to build higher-value capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the Snowflake environment across development, test, and production, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, tasks, stored procedures, and related services, with a clear inventory of critical assets.
• Design and automate role-based access, object ownership, grants, and access lifecycle controls, partnering with Identity and Security to enforce least-privilege access and timely reviews.
• Proactively resolve production issues spanning workloads, ingestion, dependencies, authentication, and data freshness, performing root-cause analysis and building monitoring that detects problems early.
• Establish resilient production support through actionable monitoring, runbooks, escalation paths, recovery procedures, rollback capabilities, incident response participation, and cross-training to remove single points of dependency.
• Track and optimize consumption by workload and owner, forecast demand, set thresholds, and tune warehouse configuration and high-cost workloads without sacrificing reliability or performance.
• Strengthen change management with version control, testing, peer review, automation, and controlled promotion, coordinating release readiness across Snowflake, connected applications, vendor integrations, and AWS dependencies.

Requirements

• 7+ years across data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering, or equivalent demonstrated depth, including substantial hands-on Snowflake production experience.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with experience automating operational work and investigating complex production failures.
• Deep practical knowledge of Snowflake security and operations, including roles, grants, object ownership, warehouses, tasks, stored procedures, and operational telemetry.
• Experience managing enterprise identities, service credentials, least-privilege access, and access lifecycle controls in partnership with Identity and Security teams.
• Ability to analyze platform consumption, optimize workloads, and balance cost, performance, and reliability tradeoffs thoughtfully.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, peer review, automated testing, controlled releases, monitoring, incident response, and documented recovery procedures; bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Annualized base salary range of $140,000 to $160,000 USD.
• Remote-eligible with willingness to travel as needed.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with the vast majority of premiums covered by the employer, plus company-paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits, with voluntary options available.
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 6% of eligible contributions, long-term stock incentives, and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Discretionary quarterly bonus, a flexible wellness benefit, generous paid time off, paid holidays, and company-wide shutdowns.