Senior Database Engineer; Snowflake

Our Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and ~30,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.

Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you’ll thrive here.

Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.

Throughout our interview process, you’ll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you’re excited to be part of a team that’s leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we’d love to meet you.

Cvent is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with deep Snowflake expertise to help design, manage, optimize, and secure our enterprise data platform across Cvent's portfolio of products. The ideal candidate will have strong hands‑on experience with Snowflake as a primary platform, complemented by proficiency in cloud database technologies — with at least one being a relational database — and a strong desire to manage database technologies of all types.

The candidate should also be familiar with Infrastructure as Code and other automation for managing databases  a Senior Database Engineer at Cvent, you will collaborate with development and data engineering teams to implement, optimize, and secure the data stores powering Cvent's products. You will build and use automation capable of managing enterprise‑scale Snowflake environments while maintaining Cvent's standards and best practices.

You will also help us continuously evaluate and improve those standards to ensure we provide the most resilient, scalable, performant, and secure database platforms possible.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 4-7 years of experience in database or data platform engineering, with at least 3 years of hands‑on Snowflake administration
• Deep expertise in Snowflake, including:
  • Virtual warehouse management and cost optimization
  • Snowflake security model (RBAC, data masking, network policies)
  • Data sharing, replication, and failover groups
  • Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, and change data capture patterns
  • Performance tuning via query profiling, clustering keys, and materialized views
• Experience managing highly available databases in AWS (Aurora, RDS, Redshift, or DynamoDB)
• Expertise in Python or Power Shell scripting for automation and pipeline support
• Deep understanding of database security principles — encryption, access control,…