Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake Platform

Redfin Redfin · Seattle · Seattle, WA

Senior Data Engineer focused on managing and optimizing Snowflake Data Platform for business-critical data integrations, operational excellence, and security compliance (SOX, CCPA). Responsibilities include SQL tuning, security best practices, CICD implementation, and end-to-end feature ownership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support Data Engineering teams across the Family of Companies to utilize Snowflake as a platform in an efficient manner.
  2. Write and tune SQL including database queries, DDL, and DML, with a focus on Snowflake-specific optimization.
  3. Establish and enforce security best practices, access controls, and auditing on the Snowflake platform to ensure compliance with standards such as SOX and CCPA.
  4. Design and implement CICD best practices for the Snowflake platform.
  5. Stay up to date on the latest Snowflake offerings. Testing and implementing new functionality when appropriate.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience overall in Enterprise Data Warehouse focused roles
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience maintaining and administering the Snowflake platform
  • resource monitoring and cost management
  • Deep experience implementing and auditing security and compliance best practices for data platforms
  • familiarity with regulations like SOX and CCPA
  • 5+ years of experience writing SQL for production applications
  • 3+ years of experience in at least one object-oriented or scripting language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala, etc.)
  • Strong experience with AWS Cloud Products (i.e., S3, DynamoDB, EC2, etc.)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as code practices using Terraform or similar
  • Ability to add architectural insights on where to store data and modeling experience

What the JD emphasized

  • security and compliance standards
  • SOX and CCPA