Senior Data Engineer - AI Platform (Remote)

Quadpay, a Zip Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working culture

Incentive programs

Unlimited PTO

Generous parental leave

401k match

Learning stipend

Union Square office with casual dress

Medical insurance offerings

Job summary

Zip is building the next generation of AI-powered 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 for structured and unstructured data, real-time and batch workloads, and intelligent retrieval capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Deep expertise with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, BigQuery, Redshift.
• Advanced SQL and Python with data modeling, ELT/ETL development, dbt, and orchestration tools.
• Experience building scalable streaming and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spark).
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Zip’s enterprise Data & AI Platform supporting analytics, ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI initiatives.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and architectures for structured, unstructured, batch, and real-time data workloads.
• Build AI-ready data products, semantic models, and retrieval capabilities for intelligent agents and AI-powered apps.
• Design and optimize vector and hybrid search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Implement streaming and event-driven solutions for near real-time insights and risk monitoring.
• Establish engineering best practices for data modeling, testing, observability, governance, security, and reliability.
• Drive self-service and automation to boost developer productivity and time-to-insight.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver trusted data solutions for AI initiatives.
• Mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and shape Zip’s data platform direction.

Skills

8+ years exp

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ELT/ETL

AI/ML readiness

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

BigQuery

Redshift

Airflow

Dagster

Kafka

Azure

Job description

Zip is building the next generation of AI-powered 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 for structured and unstructured data, real-time and batch workloads, and intelligent retrieval capabilities.