[Hiring] Data Platform Engineer @Paxos

Role Description

We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to focus on Snowflake account management, security, and data governance through Infrastructure as Code. You will own the Terraform-based management of our Snowflake environment — designing and maintaining modules that govern roles, access controls, masking policies, data classification, and resource provisioning. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep Snowflake administration expertise with strong Terraform skills and a passion for building well-governed, automated data infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment.

What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Snowflake account management, including roles, warehouses, databases, grants, and integrations
• Implement and manage role-based access controls (RBAC), data governance tags, and dynamic masking policies in Snowflake using Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake infrastructure changes using GitHub Actions
• Manage Snowflake security configurations including network policies, service accounts, and identity provider integrations
• Optimize Snowflake resource utilization, warehouse performance, and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to define and enforce data governance policies and data classification standards
• Build monitoring and alerting for infrastructure drift detection and compliance
• Contribute to data lake architecture improvements, including open table format adoption (e.g., Apache Iceberg)

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles
• Deep Snowflake administration experience, including RBAC, warehouses, masking policies, governance tags, network policies, storage integrations, and Snowpipe
• Production Terraform experience with module development, state management, and import workflows
• Terragrunt for multi-environment infrastructure management
• Python proficiency
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and compliance best practices
• Active use of AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor) in your engineering workflow — we expect this person to leverage AI as a productivity multiplier

Requirements

• Experience with the Snowflake Terraform provider
• AWS infrastructure (S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager)
• GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline development
• Apache Iceberg or open table format experience
• Data governance and compliance in regulated industries (fintech, banking, payments)
• dbt, Dagster, or similar transformation and orchestration tools
• Okta/SCIM integration for identity and access management