Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of product analytics and platform engineering, where Snowflake and Databricks have become default building blocks. Treating infrastructure as a product signals a mature data platform function, with clear ownership over reliability, governance, and operational practices that many SaaS organisations struggle to formalise as data usage grows across teams.
From a career perspective, the position builds durable SaaS platform instincts: codifying environments with Terraform, establishing operational readiness through observability and incident response, and connecting platform decisions to cost via FinOps collaboration. Experience shaping an operating model for shared data services transfers well across SaaS companies that depend on self-serve analytics, ML workloads, and predictable performance under changing demand.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers accountable, systems-level work over feature delivery, and who enjoys turning ambiguous platform needs into repeatable standards. It will fit someone comfortable coordinating across product teams and vendors, and motivated by measurable outcomes like SLOs, cost controls, and platform health. Senior developers looking to deepen cloud data platform leadership, particularly around Databricks at scale, should find the scope aligned.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Build the backbone of scalable data platforms at Coveo
As a Senior Software Developer within the Data Platform’s Infrastructure team, you will lead efforts to improve the reliability, cost efficiency and platform enablement of both Snowflake and Databricks. You will own the operating model for these platforms, the infrastructure as code that deploys them, and the performance and operational practices that keep them healthy.
You will join a team that treats infrastructure as a product and that focuses on reliability, performance and ownership. Your technical leadership will shape how our data platforms evolve and scale across the company.
As our Senior Software Developer, Data Platform Infrastructure, you will:
Build and maintain infrastructure as code for the Data Platform, including Terraform modules, CI CD pipelines and change management
Own Snowflake and Databricks platform operations, governance and lifecycle, including workspace and account design
Define cost management and collaborate with FinOps on forecasting and optimization of both platforms
Implement observability and operational readiness with monitoring, alerts, dashboards, runbooks and on-call practices
Coordinate with product teams and vendors to monitor roadmaps and feature sets for Snowflake and Databrick while aligning platform capabilities with product needs
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
Strong experience managing a Databricks infrastructure at scale
Proven track record delivering reliability and observability for high-scale SaaS, including SLOs, alerts, and incident response
Advanced Python and SQL skills
What will make you stand out:
Snowflake experience, including warehouse tuning, governance, and terraform/ddl provisioning
Experience designing and operating a hybrid data platform that integrates Databricks and Snowflake
Strong Spark skills for tuning, partitioning knowledge, and improving performance of large jobs
Knowledge of security and governance best practices on both platforms
Delta Lake and lakehouse expertise: experience with table formats, CDC, compaction, and storage layout optimizations that improve performance and enable efficient interoperability between Databricks and Snowflake
Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color?You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.
Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
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We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.
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