Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, governance, security, and cost transparency of the Snowflake environment. You will automate recurring work, strengthen controls, and build monitoring and recovery capabilities for the data platform.

What you will do

• Own Snowflake platform operations and health across development, test, and production environments
• Strengthen platform security and governance through automated role-based access and lifecycle controls
• Drive platform reliability and resolve issues across workloads, ingestion, and dependencies
• Perform root-cause analysis and establish monitoring and alerts
• Build production support practices including runbooks, escalation paths, and recovery procedures
• Participate in incident response and validate recovery approaches
• Manage and optimize Snowflake consumption and warehouse configuration
• Automate platform change management using version control and automated testing
• Coordinate release readiness and regression testing
• Report on reliability, access hygiene, consumption, and risks

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience across data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering, or equivalent demonstrated technical depth
• Substantial hands-on experience operating Snowflake in production
• Strong SQL and Python skills
• Deep practical knowledge of Snowflake security and operations
• Experience managing enterprise identities, service credentials, and least-privilege access
• Ability to understand platform consumption and optimize workloads
• Experience with Git-based development, peer review, automated testing, and controlled releases
• Experience with monitoring, incident response, and documented recovery procedures
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Regular use of a computer, devices or other office equipment
• Clear communication
• Occasional movement, comfort with screen work, basic hand coordination, and focus

Benefits

• 99% of the premium paid for medical, dental and vision plans
• Company-paid life insurance
• AD&D
• Disability benefits
• Voluntary plans to personalize coverage
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 6%
• Long-term stock incentives
• ESPP
• Discretionary quarterly bonus
• Extremely flexible wellness benefit
• Generous PTO
• Paid holidays and company-wide shutdowns

About the company

Praxis Precision Medicines is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company translating genetic insights into the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders. The company focuses on developing high impact medicines for patients and families affected by complex brain disorders.