Software Engineer, Lake Analytics Platform

• Operate and extend existing platform features for provisioning, deployment pipelines, access control, and service lifecycle management
• Maintain integrations between platform services and internal systems, including CI/CD, identity and secrets management, internal APIs, and event-driven hooks
• Support in-progress access control, data classification, and dynamic masking work in a Snowflake-based analytical environment
• Maintain and incrementally improve self-service automation for access provisioning, pipeline failure handling, and service health
• Use existing telemetry, alerting, and runbooks to diagnose and resolve platform issues
• Participate in on-call rotation and triage production incidents across supported platform services
• Document decisions and open threads for a clean handoff at the end of the contract

• Hands-on experience operating a cloud analytical data platform such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar
• Experience with access control, data masking/governance, and compute management
• Comfort operating with elevated privileges and awareness of blast radius
• Experience with containerized applications
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar
• Experience with deployment automation for production services
• Experience building or operating internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure
• Comfort with REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhook ingestion, secrets management, and identity/SSO patterns in a managed cloud environment
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Comfortable owning alerts and runbooks written by others
• Experience closing the loop on incidents with root cause analysis
• Prior experience joining an existing codebase or platform mid-stream as a contractor or new hire and becoming productive quickly with limited onboarding time
• Strong written communication
• Ability to provide clear async updates and documentation within a fixed engagement window

• Contract engagement
• On-call rotation coverage
• Opportunity to work on lakehouse, governance, semantic layer, and internal developer platform technologies