Data Platform Engineer
$45,000–$60,000 year
HybridBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Job Summary
Own the Snowflake platform by managing warehouses, databases, and network policies while designing least-privilege access models for service users and partners. Maintain the AWS lakehouse through Iceberg table ingestion and IAM plumbing, then orchestrate and harden Apache Airflow pipelines for reliability and cost efficiency. Provision all infrastructure as code via Terraform using pull requests and GitHub Actions, applying security best practices for secret management and data governance. Operate in a hybrid model across Barcelona with a team of 10+ nationalities, utilizing fluent Spanish and English to support internal customers in an Agile environment.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in data platform, data engineering, or platform/infrastructure roles in production
- Hands-on Snowflake or similar experience as a platform, not only as a SQL engine
- Solid experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC
- Experience with Apache Airflow or a comparable orchestrator, including operating it and not only writing DAGs
- Experience with AWS (S3, IAM) and working knowledge of what Iceberg tables are and how they fit into a lakehouse
- Daily usage of GitHub for version control and CI/CD
- A security-first mindset
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Fluent in Spanish and English B1 or higher
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Iceberg tables on AWS (Glue Catalog, Lake Formation, S3 Tables, Athena or Snowflake Iceberg)
- Experience with data observability or Snowflake cost tooling such as Synq, Monte Carlo or SELECT.dev
- Experience with dbt, Airbyte, or containerized workloads (Docker)
- Experience using AI coding assistants to increase your leverage, with good judgment when reviewing generated code
- Proven experience designing roles and permissions, and a genuine interest in data governance
- Experience with SQL and Python
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