Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer
Praxisprecisionmedicines · United States - Remote
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**Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer** **Location**: This position may be performed remotely, but requires flexibility and willingness to travel as needed. --- ## The Opportunity Praxis is expanding the engineering team behind the data foundation that powers our growing commercial organization. As a **Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer**, you will own the **reliability, governance, security, and cost transparency** of our **Snowflake environment** as the scale and importance of our data operations grow. You’ll take a hands-on approach to platform engineering—solving production issues at their root, automating recurring work, strengthening controls, and building monitoring and recovery capabilities that make the platform easier for others to operate. You’ll partner closely with **Data Engineering, Security, Identity, AWS**, and commercial technology partners to ensure critical data is available, appropriately protected, and ready when the business needs it. You’ll measure success by leaving behind a platform that is increasingly **reliable, observable, automated, cost-transparent, and supportable** by the broader team—giving engineers more capacity to build capabilities that ultimately support our mission for patients. --- ## Primary Responsibilities - **Own Snowflake platform operations and health** across development, test, and production (databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, tasks, procedures, and related services). Maintain clear ownership and an accurate inventory of critical platform assets. - **Strengthen security and governance** by designing and automating role-based access, object ownership, grants, and access lifecycle controls. Partner with Identity and Security to maintain least-privilege access, effective identity integration, and timely access reviews/removal. - **Drive reliability** by proactively resolving issues across workloads, ingestion, dependencies, authentication, and data freshness. Perform root-cause analysis, implement durable solutions, and establish monitoring/alerts to identify issues before they affect users. - **Build resilient production support practices** with actionable monitoring, runbooks, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and rollback capabilities. Participate in incident response, validate recovery approaches, and cross-train colleagues to eliminate single points of dependency. - **Manage and optimize Snowflake consumption** with visibility into usage by workload and owner, identifying trends, developing forecasts/thresholds, and optimizing warehouse configuration and high-cost workloads without compromising reliability or performance. - **Automate and strengthen change management** using version control, testing, peer review, automation, and controlled promotion across environments. Coordinate release readiness and regression testing across Snowflake, connected applications, vendor integrations, and AWS dependencies. - **Create transparency and continuously improve the platform** by reporting on reliability, access hygiene, consumption, and outstanding risks. Simplify unnecessary complexity, build reusable automation, maintain meaningful documentation, and thoughtfully apply AI to accelerate engineering while protecting data and production quality. --- ## Qualifications - **7+ years** of relevant experience across data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering (or equivalent), including substantial hands-on experience operating **Snowflake in production**. - Strong **SQL an
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