Senior Data Engineer, AI Platform & Analytics (Remote)

Zip Co; United States; On-site; USD 134,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working culture

Incentive programs

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Family support policies

401k match

Learning stipend

Union Square office

Medical insurance

Job summary

Zip is building the next generation of AI-powered data experiences for customers, employees, and partners. As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data & AI Platform team, you will design, build, and scale the data foundation powering analytics, ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI across the organization.

You will develop secure, scalable data platforms supporting structured and unstructured data, real-time and batch workloads, AI-ready data products, and intelligent retrieval capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Proficient with modern cloud data platforms and data pipelines.
• Experience with AI-ready data models and retrieval systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Zip's enterprise Data & AI Platform.
• Develop scalable data pipelines for structured, unstructured, batch, and real-time data workloads.
• Build AI-ready data products, semantic models, and retrieval capabilities.
• Design and optimize vector search, hybrid search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities.
• Implement streaming and event-driven solutions for real-time insights.
• Establish data modeling, testing, observability, governance, security, and platform reliability.
• Drive self-service and automation to boost developer productivity.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver trusted, high-quality data solutions.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture decisions.

Skills

8+ years data exp

SQL & Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

CI/CD & automation

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

BigQuery

Redshift

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Zip is building the next generation of AI-powered data experiences for customers, employees, and partners. As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data & AI Platform team, you will design, build, and scale the data foundation powering analytics, ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI across the organization.

You will develop secure, scalable data platforms supporting structured and unstructured data, real-time and batch workloads, AI-ready data products, and intelligent retrieval capabilities.