Platform/SRE Engineer(Snowflake-focused)

Platform Engineer

About the Role

Seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Operations team. You will build, automate, and operate our cloud-based data platform with a primary focus on Snowflake, CI/CD, and AWS/Azure cloud services. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on improving platform reliability, scalability, automation, and operational excellence. You'll partner closely with Data Engineering and Infrastructure teams to eliminate operational toil through automation, modern deployment practices, and observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering

• Operate

• and continuously improve our cloud-based data platform with a primary

• focus on Snowflake.

• Build

• automation that improves platform reliability, scalability, and

• op erational efficiency.

• Monitor

• platform health, performance, availability, and cost while proactively

• id entifying opportunities for improvement.

• Snowflake Platform

• Administer

• Snowflake environments, including security, RBAC, warehouses, databases,

• schemas, and resource optimization.

• Monitor

• and tune query performance, warehouse utilization, and platform costs.

• Support

• secure data sharing, governance, and operational best practices.

• Cloud & Platform Automation

• Design,

• build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database and platform deployments

• using GitLab and tools such as Liquibase or Redgate.

• Automate

• d deployments and operational workflows using Python, SQL, Bash, or similar

• scripting languages.

• Support

• integrations between Snowflake and AWS/Azure services, including object

• storage, serverless functions, messaging, and identity services.

• Data Platform Operations

• Support

• ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming platforms, including Confluent Kafka.

• Troubleshoot

• production issues across data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and

• platform services.

• Improve

• operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability.

• Operational Support

• Participate

• in an on-call rotation to support production data platform services and

• respond to critical incidents.

• Perform

• root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes to improve

• platform reliability and reduce recurring incidents.

• Collaborate

• with cross-functional teams during incident response and post-incident

• reviews.

• Security & Reliability

• Implement

• and maintain IAM, auditing, logging, and security controls across the

• platform.

• Promote

• automation-first operational practices and platform engineering standards.

• Collaboration

• Partner

• with Data Engineering, Analytics, Infrastructure, and business

• stakeholders to deliver reliable platform services.

• Contribute

• to platform architecture discussions and operational best practices.

• Required Qualifications

• 4+

• years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps,

• Site Reliability Engineering, or Data Platform Operations.

• Strong

• hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake.

• Designing

• and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for database or platform deployments.

• Working

• with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.

• Supporting

• ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming technologies such as Confluent Kafka.

• Strong

• scripting skills using Python, SQL, Bash, or similar languages.

• Experience

• with Git-based development workflows.

• Supporting

• production systems in an on-call or operational support environment.

• Strong

• troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems,

• and production environments.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or

• CloudFormation).

• Workflow

• orchestration tools such as Airflow.

• Serverless

• and event-driven architectures.

• Cloud

• monitoring, observability, and cost optimization tools.

• Supporting

• enterprise data platforms.

• A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum

• base salary for this position is $130 K to $150 K per year with Bonus. Employee

• benefits will also be available, and details are available like

• Pension/401K/ Paid Vacation/ Life, Medical & Dental insurance etc.

• The pay range listed above reflects the expected

• starting salary /Pay rate for this role. This range may be adjusted based on

• market conditions, location, and other relevant factors. The Company will

• determine the final starting salary/Pay rate in consultation with the selected

• candidate(s), in full compliance with applicable laws