Senior Data Engineer, Cloud Data Platform

Namely; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build and own cloud data foundations across ingestion, orchestration, lakehouse and warehouse systems. You will turn telemetry into trusted inputs for delivery decisions, product analytics, and ML.

You will own data backbone, ensure dependable, discoverable, performant datasets, and drive cost-conscious data operations across Zipline's autonomous delivery platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Experience with Python or Rust in production systems.
• Strong distributed-data systems foundations and scale.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and workflow tools like Prefect or Airflow.
• Knowledge of Snowflake, dbt, and lakehouse architectures.
• Clear communication and ability to influence across teams.
• This is a full-time role based in South San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate cloud services for data ingestion, transformation, validation, and serving across batch and near-real-time pipelines.
• Build orchestration patterns and shared libraries, templates, CI checks, and golden paths for dataset publishing and transformations.
• Own lakehouse and warehouse foundations, including table management, schema evolution, partitioning, workload isolation, access patterns, and lifecycle management.
• Establish data contracts, metadata, naming, versioning, lineage, freshness, quality checks, and service objectives tied to operational and business impact.
• Diagnose distributed-system bottlenecks and improve throughput, query performance, concurrency, storage efficiency, and cost.
• Partner with service, telemetry, embedded, analytics, data science, and ML teams; lead technical reviews and align teams on durable platform interfaces and tradeoffs.

Skills

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Data infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Prefect

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Zipline seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build and own cloud data foundations across ingestion, orchestration, lakehouse and warehouse systems. You will turn telemetry into trusted inputs for delivery decisions, product analytics, and ML.

You will own data backbone, ensure dependable, discoverable, performant datasets, and drive cost-conscious data operations across Zipline's autonomous delivery platform.