Senior Data Engineer, AI Platform
Zip Co Limited3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$134k - $168k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale Zip’s enterprise Data & AI Platform for analytics, machine learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.
- Develop scalable pipelines and architectures for structured, unstructured, batch, streaming, and real-time data workloads.
- Build AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector search, hybrid search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation capabilities.
- Implement streaming and event-driven solutions for near-real-time insights, operational intelligence, fraud detection, and risk monitoring.
- Establish engineering practices for data modeling, testing, observability, governance, security, and platform reliability.
- Drive self-service and automation to improve developer productivity and time-to-insight.
- Partner with data science, machine learning, software engineering, product, and business teams.
- Lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and shape the data platform strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Deep experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar technologies.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills with strong experience in data modeling, ELT/ETL development, dbt, and orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Dagster.
- Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Spark, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic layers, data governance, metadata management, and platform observability.
- Experience supporting AI and machine learning workloads with AI-ready data models, vector search, metadata enrichment, RAG, and knowledge retrieval systems.
- Experience with lakehouse technologies and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, with Azure preferred.
- Experience with testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across technical and business teams.
- Preferred experience with enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI, LLM-powered applications, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, vector databases, AI search, MLOps/LLMOps, data governance, metadata, lineage, data catalogs, fintech, payments, procurement, risk, compliance, or enterprise SaaS.
Benefits
- Remote-first role for US-based employees with an option to work from the Manhattan office.
- Flexible working culture and unlimited PTO.
- Incentive programs and company-sponsored 401k match.
- Generous paid parental leave and family support policies.
- Learning and wellness subscription stipend.
- Employer-sponsored insurance with several fully Zip-covered choices for employees and dependents.
- Casual-dress Union Square office.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSnowflakeSQL
Categories
Data Engineering
About Zip Co Limited
Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) provides buy now, pay later and point-of-sale credit products for consumers, integrated into online and in-store checkouts. It earns primarily from merchant fees, interchange, and consumer charges on longer-term credit; products include Zip Pay and Zip Money. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sydney, it operates in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States with a broad merchant acceptance network.