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The ideal candidate brings a software engineering mindset to data, writing clean, production-grade code, and implementing rigorous testing methodologies.Core ResponsibilitiesPipeline Engineering: Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable data pipelines capable of processing large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.Platform Optimization: Optimize data storage, compute, and query performance within Snowflake (e.g., clustering, Snowpipe, Snowflake Data Sharing) or Databricks.Code Quality: Write highly efficient, modular, and well-documented Python and SQL. 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