Our Story
TopDog Law is a nationally scaling personal injury firm that owns the client experience end to end, from marketing and intake through litigation. We've grown 2-3x year over year for three years running, and we're now building the operations, systems, and teams to scale without sacrificing quality or culture. We're fully remote, and we value ownership, open communication, and speed. If you want to help build something exceptional, you'll feel at home here.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Senior DataOps Engineer to own the operations, security, and cost of our data platform. We're migrating from BigQuery to Snowflake, and you'll be the hands-on Snowflake expert who runs the platform and makes sure it stays secure, observable, and well managed as our data footprint grows with machine learning, AI, and structured and semi-structured data from AWS S3 and external vendor files.
This is a tactical, hands-on role supporting the data team and application teams across multiple business verticals. You'll bring data operations practices together in one place, and over time that scope will grow to include the Postgres and NoSQL databases our application teams use. We need deep Snowflake expertise combined with the breadth to look beyond it: how all of our data tools, vendors, access, and costs fit together, and opportunities to improve platform practices. You bring demonstrated experience managing complex data platforms and improving their operations.
What You Will Own
Data Platform & Operations
- Run the platform. Own administration and day-to-day operations of Snowflake, including environments, warehouses, performance, and the operational side of our migration from BigQuery.
- Standardize data operations. Define consistent operating practices for data ingestion from S3 and vendor files, structured and semi-structured data, and ML and AI workloads, using infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data.
- Extend platform practices to operational databases. Extend consistent operational practices to the Postgres and NoSQL databases used by application teams, including backups, performance, and access.
Security & Access
- Secure the data. Apply least-privilege permissions, design appropriate data access roles, and integrate our data tools with SSO, with encryption and auditing for sensitive data.
- Manage data vendors and tools. Manage the external vendors and tools used by our data team, covering access, SSO integration, configuration, and licensing.
Reliability & Cost
- Keep it observable and reliable. Build monitoring and observability across our data pipelines and platform, and define and run the incident management process, from response through root cause and follow-up.
- Improve cost transparency. Track and attribute spend across Snowflake and data tooling, provide teams with clear cost visibility, and drive optimization.
Support Across Teams
- Support multiple teams. Serve as the data operations point of contact for teams across business verticals, helping resolve operational challenges and establishing reusable practices and documentation.
What You Bring
Required:
- 7+ years of professional experience in data platform engineering, DataOps, or DevOps, with a track record of operating production data platforms.
- Deep Snowflake expertise, including administration, role-based access control, warehouse management, performance, and cost.
- Strong security and access management skills, including least-privilege role design, SSO integration, encryption, and audit logging.
- Experience with AWS data storage and access, including S3, IAM, and the networking that governs data access.
- Experience building monitoring, observability, and incident management for data pipelines and platforms.
- Experience with cloud data cost visibility and management, including reporting spend clearly to technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience administering data vendor tools, such as ingestion, orchestration, BI, and data quality platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data workloads (e.g., Terraform, dbt deployments).
- Working experience operating relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres).
- Broad understanding of the data ecosystem, including how platforms, tools, and processes integrate and where improvements are needed.
- Strong communication skills and a track record of supporting multiple teams and helping teams adopt shared practices.
Preferred (Nice to Have):
- Experience migrating a data warehouse to Snowflake, or working knowledge of BigQuery.
- Snowflake certifications.
- Experience supporting data infrastructure for machine learning and AI workloads.
- Experience with orchestration and transformation tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt).
- Experience with data governance, catalog, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, or in a regulated or document-heavy industry such as legal or financial services.
Who Thrives Here (Core Values)
We don't hire on resumes alone. We hire for competence, character, and mindset.
- Embrace Change: Open to feedback, embracing change, and always asking "what's next?"
- Committed: You care deeply, have your teammates' backs, and show up to build something lasting.
- No-Ego Energy: Positive, professional, and solutions-oriented. Drama stays at the door.
- Ownership: You do what you say, follow through, and treat the business like it's yours.
- Fast & Hungry: You move with urgency, thrive under high expectations, and are motivated by growth and impact.
What We Offer
- Base Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 commensurate with experience
- Our job postings reflect the compensation range for the specific market and location of each role. Ranges vary by geography based on local market rates and cost of labor.
- Benefits include: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, HSA, life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, and parental leave.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or being a qualified disabled veteran or qualified veteran of the Vietnam era or any other category protected by Federal or State law.
DISCLAIMER: This is a full-time employee position. It is not open to independent contractor or consulting arrangements. Compensation is determined by the location where the work is performed and is subject to applicable local law.
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