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Zocdoc

Staff Data Platform Engineer

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about 4 hours ago
Remote, United States or Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Base Salary

$180k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve data contract standards across the company.
  • Design interoperable ingestion and publishing frameworks for upstream producers.
  • Build and standardize APIs, libraries, or SDKs for event logging and schema validation.
  • Establish best practices for schema registry usage and validation across systems.
  • Design clear patterns for data lake and warehouse usage.
  • Lead reverse ETL and activation architecture for operational use cases.
  • Define and enforce access control and compliance standards.
  • Partner with various teams to align on standards and long-term direction.
  • Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture around data quality.
  • Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering or platform development.
  • Experience designing data contracts and schema governance at scale.
  • Strong expertise in Python and SQL with hands-on experience in scalable data frameworks.
  • Experience with distributed data systems like Spark and modern lakehouse architectures.
  • Familiarity with data warehouses such as Snowflake and performance/access patterns.
  • Experience building APIs or platform services adopted by multiple teams.
  • Strong understanding of access control and compliance in regulated environments.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional architectural initiatives.
  • Clear communication skills and a track record of influencing standards.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools or cloud-based coding environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible, hybrid work environment at a convenient Soho location.
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • 100% paid employee health benefit options including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • 401(k) with employer funded match.
  • Corporate wellness program with Wellhub.
  • Sabbatical leave for employees with 5+ years of service.
  • Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement.
  • Cell phone reimbursement.
  • Catered lunch every day along with beverages and snacks.
  • Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote community and belonging.
  • Great Place to Work Certified.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaApache SparkDatabricksPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

AI & MLData Engineering