Senior Platform Engineer – Python

Senior Platform Engineer - Python Prefect AWS Snowflake

Location: Remote
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Python Prefect AWS and Snowflake to build and enhance a scalable workflow orchestration platform supporting enterprise marketing operations.

This is a software engineering role focused on designing developing deploying and supporting production-grade workflow orchestration solutions. You will collaborate with Data Engineers Cloud Engineers and Frontend Developers to build reliable observable and secure workflow platformsnot just provide architecture guidance.

Required Skills

• 7 years of software engineering experience
• Strong Python development experience
• Hands-on experience with Prefect (or Airflow Dagster Luigi etc.)
• AWS cloud services
• Snowflake and advanced SQL
• REST API integrations
• CI/CD pipeline implementation
• Git version control
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Production monitoring logging and alerting
• Workflow orchestration and scheduling
• Troubleshooting production applications and data pipelines

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop workflow orchestration solutions using Python and Prefect.
• Build reliable scalable and production-ready workflow platforms.
• Integrate Snowflake REST APIs middleware and enterprise applications.
• Develop deployment pipelines across Dev Test and Production environments.
• Implement monitoring logging alerting and operational dashboards.
• Design retry recovery and rerun mechanisms for workflow failures.
• Implement secure authentication secrets management and environment separation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Create operational documentation deployment guides and runbooks.
• Support production deployments and troubleshoot platform issues.
• Follow engineering best practices testing code reviews and version control.

Preferred Skills

• dbt
• Snowpark
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Event-driven architectures
• Marketing technology platforms
• Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
• Campaign Management platforms

Required Skills:

PythonAWSSnowflake