Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer - Remote & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Remote-eligible

401(k) match

Job summary

praxisprecisionmedicines seeks a senior engineer to own a Snowflake data platform supporting a growing commercial organization. You will emphasize platform reliability, security and governance, cost transparency, and automation, partnering with Data Engineering, Security, Identity, and AWS teams to keep critical data available and well protected.

Success is measured not only by uptime but by delivering a more observable, automated, and supportable platform that frees engineers to build

Qualifications

• 7+ years across data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering with 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, roles, grants, ownership, warehouses, tasks, stored procedures, and telemetry.
• Experience managing enterprise identities and least-privilege access in partnership with Identity and Security teams.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Snowflake environment across development, test, and production with inventory of critical assets.
• Design and automate RBAC, object ownership, grants, and access lifecycle controls with Identity and Security.
• Proactively resolve production issues across workloads, ingestion, dependencies, auth, and data freshness with root-cause analysis.
• Establish resilient production support with monitoring, runbooks, escalation paths, and incident response.
• Track and optimize consumption by workload and owner; forecast demand and tune warehouses for cost and performance.
• Strengthen change management with version control, testing, automation, and coordinated release readiness across Snowflake, apps, vendor integrations, and AWS.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Security controls

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field

Tools

Snowflake

Git

AWS

Job description

praxisprecisionmedicines seeks a senior engineer to own a Snowflake data platform supporting a growing commercial organization. You will emphasize platform reliability, security and governance, cost transparency, and automation, partnering with Data Engineering, Security, Identity, and AWS teams to keep critical data available and well protected.

Success is measured not only by uptime but by delivering a more observable, automated, and supportable platform that frees engineers to build