Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer - Remote

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

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.