Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for central nervous system disorders. The Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer will own the reliability, governance, security, and cost transparency of the Snowflake environment, while automating operations, strengthening controls, and building monitoring and recovery capabilities. The role partners with Data Engineering, Security, Identity, AWS, and commercial technology teams to ensure critical data is available, protected, and operationally supportable.
Responsibilities
- Own Snowflake platform operations and health, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, tasks, procedures, and related services across development, test, and production environments. Maintain clear ownership and an accurate inventory of critical platform assets
- Strengthen platform security and governance by designing and automating role-based access, object ownership, grants, and access lifecycle controls. Partner with Identity and Security teams to maintain least-privilege access, effective identity integration, and timely access reviews and removal
- Drive platform reliability and proactively resolve issues across workloads, ingestion, dependencies, authentication, and data freshness. Perform root-cause analysis, implement durable solutions, and establish monitoring and alerts that identify issues before they affect users
- Build resilient and repeatable production support practices through actionable monitoring, runbooks, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and rollback capabilities. Participate in incident response, validate recovery approaches, and cross-train colleagues to eliminate single points of dependency
- Manage and optimize Snowflake consumption by establishing visibility into usage by workload and owner, identifying meaningful consumption trends, developing forecasts and thresholds, and optimizing warehouse configuration and high-cost workloads without compromising reliability or performance
- Automate and strengthen platform change management using version control, testing, peer review, automation, and controlled promotion across environments. Coordinate release readiness and regression testing across Snowflake, connected applications, vendor integrations, and AWS dependencies
- Create transparency and continuously improve the platform by reporting on reliability, access hygiene, consumption, and outstanding risks. Simplify unnecessary complexity, build reusable automation, maintain meaningful documentation, and thoughtfully apply AI to accelerate engineering while protecting data and production quality
Skills
- 7+ years of relevant experience across data platforms, cloud engineering, or data engineering—or equivalent demonstrated technical depth—with substantial hands-on experience operating Snowflake in production
- Strong SQL and Python skills, including experience automating operational work and investigating complex production failures
- Deep practical knowledge of Snowflake security and operations, including roles, grants, object ownership, warehouses, tasks, stored procedures, and operational telemetry
- Experience managing enterprise identities, service credentials, least-privilege access, and access lifecycle controls in partnership with Identity and Security teams
- Demonstrated ability to understand platform consumption, optimize workloads, and make thoughtful tradeoffs among cost, performance, and reliability
- Experience with Git-based development, peer review, automated testing, controlled releases, monitoring, incident response, and documented recovery procedures
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
- The physical and mental requirements of our roles include but are not limited to regular use of a computer, devices or other office equipment, clear communication, and occasional movement. You'll need comfort with screen work, basic hand coordination, and focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions
- This position may be performed remotely, but requires the flexibility and willingness to travel as needed
Benefits
- This position may be performed remotely
- 99% of the premium paid for medical, dental and vision plans
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid AD&D benefits
- Company-paid disability benefits
- Voluntary plans to personalize your coverage
- Dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% on eligible 401(k) contributions
- Long-term stock incentives
- ESPP
- Discretionary quarterly bonus
- Extremely flexible wellness benefit
- Generous PTO
- Paid holidays
- Company-wide shutdowns
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