Staff Snowflake Platform Engineer

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Paid time off

Retirement plans

Education benefits

Family care benefits

Commuter transit program

Subscription discounts

Employee referral program

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead Snowflake infrastructure across the enterprise. You will own accounts, security posture, and the DevOps tooling that enables AI-enabled data work while ensuring scale and governance.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to platform standards, and partner with security, compliance, finance, product, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, cost-efficient data platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles at enterprise-scale companies.
• Deep Snowflake production account experience: administration, RBAC, security, cost, performance.
• Strong Terraform experience and CI/CD for data infrastructure.
• Fluency with observability, incident response, and on-call for data infra.
• Experience under regulated/audited environments (SOC 2, SOX, GDPR).
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the Snowflake footprint across Dow Jones: accounts, warehouses, roles, databases, and operating model.
• Design RBAC, policies, masking, and data classification for each unit.
• Build and maintain the DevOps pipeline for Snowflake: Terraform, CI/CD for schema and object changes, automated testing.
• Set standards for security, network policies, private connectivity, SSO, SCIM, and secrets management.
• Optimize cost and performance: monitors, right-sizing, query analysis, FinOps reporting.
• Lead architecture reviews for major Snowflake initiatives and mentor engineers across levels.

Skills

Snowflake

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Observability

Security posture

Platform tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Dow Jones is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead Snowflake infrastructure across the enterprise. You will own accounts, security posture, and the DevOps tooling that enables AI-enabled data work while ensuring scale and governance.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to platform standards, and partner with security, compliance, finance, product, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, cost-efficient data platforms.