Wendy Castellanos
Data Engineering Manager · 201-1000
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★★★★★
Permission management in a mid-market analytics department is messier than anyone wants to admit. Role hierarchies, engine-level access controls, catalog permissions, keeping contractors scoped to just what they need without creating a support ticket every time someone needs a tweak. Firebolt handles most of this better than anything else I've managed in five-plus years of running data infrastructure. The granularity they give you at the engine and database level is genuinely impressive, and I've built out some fairly complex permission structures that have held up through two full team reorgs without me having to rebuild from scratch.
My one real frustration is the admin UI for permissions. The underlying model is solid, but the interface for visualizing who has access to what across multiple engines is thin. I end up cross-referencing SQL system tables more than I'd like just to audit access cleanly. It's not a dealbreaker, and their docs are thorough enough that I get there eventually. But a cleaner permission audit view would save me real time. Everything else, query performance, cost predictability, configuration flexibility, earns its keep.
