Snowflake Platform Engineer (Remote)

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches through advanced AI-native platforms. The Snowflake Platform Engineer will provide critical operational support for the Snowflake platform, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with various teams to optimize data infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Snowflake subject matter expert within the Data Platform Operations team, providing specialized expertise for platform architecture, administration, and optimization
• Monitor, triage, and resolve production ETL/ELT pipeline incidents and alerts, with emphasis on Snowflake-related issues including query performance, warehouse contention, and data loading failures
• Manage Snowflake access controls, role-based security, and data governance policies to ensure compliance with security and privacy requirements
• Optimize Snowflake platform performance and costs through proactive monitoring, query optimization, warehouse sizing, resource management, and storage efficiency improvements
• Collaborate with data engineers and operations team members to troubleshoot data pipeline failures, performance bottlenecks, and data quality issues
• Implement and maintain operational standards, monitoring solutions, and runbooks for Snowflake platform management and ETL support
• Design and enforce Snowflake best practices including data modeling patterns, security configurations, and cost management strategies
• Support the operations team in evaluating, implementing, and maintaining data integration tools, orchestration platforms (Airflow, dbt), and CI/CD processes
• Implement data governance frameworks including data quality standards, metadata management, and lineage tracking within Snowflake
• Partner with DevOps, security, and data engineering teams to ensure seamless platform operations and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in data platform operations and ETL support, with at least 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience
• Deep expertise in Snowflake platform administration including resource monitoring, performance tuning, cost optimization, security management, and account configuration
• Strong operational experience supporting production ETL/ELT pipelines, including incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Proven ability to work as part of an operations team, providing on-call support and collaborating on cross-platform issues
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, including access management, data classification, metadata management, and compliance frameworks
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and scripting for automation, monitoring, and operational tasks
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, dbt, and CI/CD platforms like Jenkins or GitLab
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their integration with Snowflake
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and modern data architecture principles
• Due to GovCloud access requirements, applicants must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident) and must be physically located and authorized to work within the United States at all times
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and share knowledge with team members
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience