Senior Big Data Engineer — AI & Platform Enablement

ZipRecruiter, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Exceptional benefits package

Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off

Employer-matched 401(k) plan

Job summary

ZipRecruiter, Inc. is building scalable data platforms that power a fast-growing online employment marketplace. The Tech Enablement team delivers core data infrastructure, ML tooling, and analytics capabilities to accelerate product delivery across all engineering teams.

We emphasize reliability, performance, and observability as we enable data scientists and developers to explore data, build models, and ship features that improve matching and outcomes for job seekers and employers alike.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating data pipelines that feed into a customer facing product.
• Hands-on Apache Spark experience: writing, tuning and debugging batch and/or streaming jobs at scale.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized services and batch jobs.
• Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and testing.
• Professional software development experience, including building and operating data pipelines and infrastructure that feed into a customer facing product.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain data pipelines and datalake infrastructure for scalable analytics.
• Develop ML data workflows and tooling to accelerate data-driven decision making.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable, observable data platforms.

Skills

Apache Spark

Containers

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

CS fundamentals

Customer-facing product

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field

Tools

AWS

Parquet/ Iceberg / Delta Lake

Kafka

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

ZipRecruiter, Inc. is building scalable data platforms that power a fast-growing online employment marketplace. The Tech Enablement team delivers core data infrastructure, ML tooling, and analytics capabilities to accelerate product delivery across all engineering teams.

We emphasize reliability, performance, and observability as we enable data scientists and developers to explore data, build models, and ship features that improve matching and outcomes for job seekers and employers alike.