Senior Software Engineer, Data Operations - PDEGO (Snowflake/Terraform)

Location: UK & Ireland, United Kingdom, London; modern office environment.

Company

hirify.global is a global music and entertainment company operating across more than 70 countries at the intersection of music, technology, and creative products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain monitoring systems, alerting pipelines, and health dashboards for real-time data-platform visibility.
• Participate in production incident response, including triage, resolution, stakeholder communication, and post-mortems.
• Automate repetitive operational work such as access requests, backfill coordination, and pipeline health checks.
• Operate Snowflake infrastructure through Terraform, including access controls, cost monitoring, and warehouse configuration.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on system design and code reviews focused on reliability and operability.
• Improve runbooks, platform documentation, query performance, data accessibility, and analyst enablement across global teams.

Requirements

• 6–8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful SRE, platform engineering, or data infrastructure experience.
• Production incident-response experience, including stakeholder communication and post-incident analysis.
• Deep understanding of monitoring and observability, including alerting design, SLO definition, dashboards, and root-cause analysis across distributed systems.
• Hands-on operational experience with Snowflake or an equivalent data warehouse, including access management, cost governance, and performance tuning.
• Experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong debugging skills across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, or equivalent data-pipeline tooling.
• Clear, proactive communication skills, including explaining technical incidents to business and analyst stakeholders without jargon.
• Motivation to reduce operational toil through automation and scalable processes, plus an interest in music and the music business.

Nice to have

• AWS experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Vibrant global community with opportunities to contribute to social impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Professional growth and development support in a modern office environment.
• Private medical cover, generous pension scheme, life assurance, and income protection.
• Music industry perks and time off over the winter break.
• Equal-opportunity employment supporting workforce diversity; applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Hiring process

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