# Staff Engineer, Snowflake Platform

**Company**: Dow Jones
**Location**: NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000 - $200,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is an individual-contributor leadership role focused on Snowflake infrastructure at the Dow Jones enterprise scale. You'll own the platform end to end: account architecture and administration, security and access control, and the DevOps machinery that makes Snowflake safe and easy to use across dozens of teams and every business unit.

Responsibilities:

- Own the Snowflake footprint across Dow Jones: accounts, warehouses, roles, databases, and the operating model behind them.

- Design and evolve RBAC, column and row-level policies, masking, tagging, and data classification for every business unit.

- Build and maintain the DevOps pipeline for Snowflake: Terraform, CI/CD for schema and object changes, automated testing, and change management.

- Set and enforce standards for security, network policies, private connectivity, SSO, SCIM, and secrets management.

- Optimize cost and performance: resource monitors, warehouse right-sizing, query analysis, credit budgeting, and FinOps reporting.

- Design for reliability at DJ scale: replication, failover, disaster recovery, incident response, and observability across the platform.

- Explore and implement emerging AI tooling to accelerate our modern data engineering practices.

- Lead architecture and design reviews for major Snowflake initiatives.

- Anticipate scalability, reliability, security, and cost problems before they land.

- Hunt technical debt in the platform to reduce complexity so downstream teams get more done with less.

- Debug the problems no one else can. Lead during incidents and get to root cause fast.

- Mentor engineers across levels, including senior and staff peers, through design guidance, code review, pairing, and documentation.

Requirements:

- 7+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles, with time spent at large or enterprise-scale companies.

- Thought-leader of AI and opinionated about how to make it work effectively at scale on a data platform.

- Deep, hands-on Snowflake experience running a production account at scale: administration, RBAC, security posture, cost, and performance.

- Strong Terraform experience (Snowflake provider or equivalent) and CI/CD for data infrastructure.

- Track record designing and operating data platforms that serve many teams, business units, or downstream systems.

- Security fluency: RBAC design, data masking, access policies, private connectivity, SSO and SCIM, audit posture.

- Fluency with observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call for data infrastructure.

- Strong Python for platform tooling, automation, or service work.

- Experience working in regulated or audited environments (SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, or equivalent).

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- Ability to influence across teams and functions without formal authority, backed by strong writing and speaking.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive healthcare plans.

- Paid time off.

- Retirement plans.

- Comprehensive insurance plans.

- Education benefits.

- Family care benefits.

- Commuter transit program.

- Subscription discounts.

- Employee referral program.

## Skills

### Required
- Snowflake
- Terraform
- Python
- RBAC
- data engineering
- platform engineering
- infrastructure

### Nice to have
- dbt
- Airflow
- Snowflake certifications
- FinOps
- data governance
- metadata
- lineage tooling

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