DataOps Engineer

Data EngineerData EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 10,001+H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

28 days ago

Salary

$87.4K - $123.4K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAirflowAWSAzureKafkaPythonSQLTerraform

Job Description

• Own the DataOps lifecycle for our Snowflake-on-AWS platform • Turn data products into reliable services with SLAs/SLOs • Automate promotion across environments • Engineer idempotent pipelines using Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka, and orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Step Functions/Lambda) • Implement the data test pyramid: column/row checks, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and end-to-end validation. • Automate PII classification and object TAGS; enforce tag-based masking, row access policies, RBAC role families, and network policies. • Lead data incident triage, customer comms, RCAs, and post-incident hardening. • Track queries, warehouse utilization, and job cost; implement guardrails.

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or related; equivalent practical experience welcomed.
5–8+ years in data engineering/analytics platform roles with 3+ years operating Snowflake in production.
DataOps skills: You’ve shipped contract-first pipelines, automated tests, and environment promotion at scale; you measure success with SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
Snowflake depth: Warehouses, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe /Kafka Connector, search optimization, materialized views, replication/failover; strong SQL and performance tuning.
Automation: Terraform (Snowflake provider), dbt (models/tests/docs), GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps; Python/Bash for tooling and checks.
Observability: Building alerts/dashboards from ACCOUNT/ORG usage views; experience with data quality/observability platforms (e.g., GX/Soda/Monte Carlo/Bigeye) a plus.
Governance: Practical use of object TAGS, tag-based masking, row access policies, and evidence generation for audits.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.