Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake Operations & FinOps)

Full-Time
Fully_Remote
Colombia, Mexico

Summary of the Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake Operations & FinOps) to own the health, security, performance and cost of a Snowflake platform and its ingestion and orchestration pipelines in a regulated healthcare environment. A Snowflake DBA at heart who works fluently across the modern data stack (Dagster, dbt, Airbyte, CDC, Azure), you will be measured on bending the credit consumption curve down and preventing platform incidents before they happen. This is an outcome-driven, AI-native role: you will rely daily on Claude Code, MCP servers and agentic scripts to automate runbooks, inspect queries and open infrastructure pull requests.

Desired Skills

  • Full-Time availability
  • Advanced English (C1) or above
  • 6+ years of professional experience, including 3+ years running production Snowflake at scale with deep DBA expertise (warehouses, RBAC, clustering, Time Travel, ACCOUNT_USAGE analysis and parameter tuning)
  • A proven FinOps track record: identifying spend anomalies, implementing warehouse guardrails and driving sustained cost reductions, with concrete metrics
  • Hands-on experience with Dagster (assets, sensors, partitions), dbt (incremental materializations, testing) and Airbyte or equivalent ingestion tools
  • Practical experience implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) from SQL Server and PostgreSQL into cloud warehouses
  • Active daily use of AI tools such as Claude Code, the Anthropic API, MCP servers or agent frameworks to build operational automations
  • Advanced Python and SQL, plus Git, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure concepts (Azure, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC)

Responsibilities

  • Forecast, attribute and reduce Snowflake credit consumption across environments, implementing resource monitors, query timeouts, warehouse sizing and auto-suspend guardrails, and query tags
  • Hunt runaway and expensive queries daily, optimizing SQL, clustering, micro-partition pruning, caching and warehouse placement
  • Manage RBAC roles, network policies, replication and account parameters
  • Stand up and harden CDC pipelines from SQL Server and PostgreSQL into Snowflake, and operate Airbyte connections and Dagster orchestration (sensors, assets, partitions, retries)
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines for dbt, Dagster code locations and Snowflake schema changes with Infrastructure-as-Code discipline on Azure and Kubernetes
  • Build Claude Code agents and MCP integrations that monitor usage, flag cost anomalies, propose optimizations and draft automated pull requests
  • Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege access, data masking and audit logging for HIPAA and HITRUST compliance

Nice-to-Haves

  • SnowPro Advanced Administrator or SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer certification
  • Experience with Snowflake cost observability tools such as SELECT, Keebo or native Snowflake Budgets
  • Experience with Snowflake Openflow, Snowpipe Streaming or Dynamic Tables
  • Background in healthcare, revenue cycle or HIPAA-regulated data environments

Who You Are

  • You are decisive and high-agency: when you find a runaway query or pipeline bug, you own it through to the production fix
  • You are rigorous and analytical, treating cost control and platform reliability as measurable, continuous engineering goals
  • You communicate clearly in both directions, explaining a query plan to a senior developer and quarterly cost trends to executive leadership

Some benefits:

  • 🏢 Offices in some cities
  • 🖥️ 100% remote work
  • ⌚ Full-time schedule, flexible according to objectives
  • 🏖️ PTO & holidays
  • ⚕️ Medical insurance

About Howdy

Howdy.com, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, helps US companies who want to hire, manage, and retain their teams in Latin America (LatAm) directly but need help with multinational logistics, contracts, compliance, and culture. Companies that use Howdy.com get the best talent available in LatAm and gain access to an entire network and a thriving community of professionals who are changing the world. By partnering with Howdy.com, companies can expand their physical presence into some of the fastest-growing economies in LatAm.

Howdy.com is a member of Y Combinator and has garnered significant support from prominent investors, including Greycroft and Obvious Ventures. The company raised over $20 million in a series A venture capital round.

Our core values

#1 Sports Team: At Howdy, we win together. From players to support, everyone is vital to our success. We hire for excellence, prioritize teamwork, and strive for continuous improvement. We collaborate, seek advice, and actively contribute to Howdy's victories.

Altruism: Demonstrating altruism involves prioritizing the team and assuming the best in others. We communicate openly, provide honest feedback, and extend grace. Altruism is selfless service, focusing on supporting our players and team growth.

Curiosity: Being curious at Howdy means having the willingness to learn, adapt, and explore new ideas. We question existing beliefs, embrace humility, and see curiosity as our superpower. Demonstrating curiosity involves researching unfamiliar tasks, asking questions to understand the full picture, and seeking better ways to complete routine tasks.

Have Spirit: Having spirit at Howdy is about celebrating wins, building a sense of community, and bringing positivity. Demonstrating spirit involves attending events, getting to know teammates, participating in challenges, and proudly wearing the Howdy swag. Simply put, it's about bringing a super-fan spirit to work every day.