CareerPlan

Data Platform Engineer

San FranciscoFull-time$160k–$500k2026-11-08
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Designing and maintaining the foundational data infrastructure (Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, Hex) that powers data-driven teams, ensuring reliable data organization, access control, and cost efficiency.

Role type

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Data ingestion pipelines, governance frameworks, and cost-optimized data warehouse environments

Domain

Data Engineering / Cloud Data Platforms

Required skills

Snowflake administration, data access and governance design, vendor tooling ownership, data migration, SQL, Python, CDC/streaming pipelines

Preferred skills

Infrastructure fluency, on-call reliability management

Technologies

Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, Astronomer, Hex, Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming

Responsibilities

Design role-based access controls and row-level security policies; migrate data from vendor and internal sources; monitor and optimize Snowflake warehouse spend; maintain Fivetran connectors and Airflow/Astronomer pipeline reliability; build CDC/streaming ingestion tooling

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC