Senior Data Engineer (Online Data)

Zoom; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a senior data engineer to design, build, and optimize data pipelines powering Online analytics, including billing, checkout, growth and revenue analytics. You will own the full data engineering lifecycle, from ETL ingestions to data quality, performance tuning, and model delivery, collaborating with Data Science, Finance, and Product teams.

The role is hybrid with on-site presence three days per week at Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA. Remote arrangements are not available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and optimizing complex data pipelines and ETL workflows using Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Airflow, dbt, and Python.
• SQL proficiency designing normalized schemas and high-performance queries.
• Machine learning and statistical methods: experience developing ML solutions and hypothesis testing.
• Web analytics and product telemetry: event tracking and dataset construction from web/product usage data.
• Data governance and quality: standards, lineage, ownership, access controls, automated validation tests.
• Communication and visualization: build interactive visualizations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable ETL workflows and data pipelines with automated validation and monitoring.
• Build analytical datasets from clickstream and product usage events for web analytics and insights.
• Maintain data governance with lineage, definitions, and access controls.
• Implement automated data quality frameworks and alerting for issues.
• Optimize pipeline performance and database efficiency through tuning and caching.
• Analyze complex datasets using statistics and ML, and present findings to stakeholders.
• Lead end-to-end data products and deploy ML models into production with peer guidance.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

ML/statistics

Web analytics

Data governance

Communication/visualization

Education in CS/Engineering

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Python

Job description

What You Can Expect

In this role, you will design, build, and optimize the data pipelines and analytical solutions that power Zoom's Online business, including billing, checkout, growth, and revenue analytics. Working end to end, you will own the full data engineering lifecycle, from ETL design and ingestion through data quality, performance tuning, and model delivery to stakeholders across Data Science, Finance, and Product. Each day brings a mix of deep technical work and meaningful cross-functional collaboration, with opportunities to shape how the Online business understands and acts on its data. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting into the Data Systems and Online Technology organization. This is a hybrid position that requires on-site presence three (3) days per week at our Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA office. Remote arrangements are not available for this role.

About The Team

The Online Data team is the analytical backbone of Zoom's Online business, delivering the data infrastructure and insights that support billing, checkout, growth, and revenue operations. Working alongside Senior Data Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Visualization Engineers within the Data Systems and Online Technology organization, our team ensures that decision-makers across Product, Finance, and Data Science have reliable, well-governed data to work from. We build systems and standards that keep Zoom's Online business moving with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable ETL workflows and data pipelines that transform raw data into structured, analytics-ready formats, with automated validation checks and monitoring to ensure ongoing quality and reliability.
• Build analytical datasets from clickstream, user interaction, and product usage events to support web analytics, feature adoption analysis, and user journey insights.
• Establish and maintain data governance practices, including data definitions, lineage, ownership documentation, and access controls for sensitive data, in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Implement automated data quality frameworks covering accuracy, completeness, consistency, and freshness, and establish alerting to identify and resolve data issues proactively.
• Optimize pipeline performance and database efficiency through query tuning, indexing strategies, caching configurations, and model accuracy evaluation for large-scale structured and unstructured data.
• Analyze complex datasets using statistical techniques and machine learning methods, build interactive visualizations, and run hypothesis testing to surface insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead end-to-end development of data products from concept through deployment, integrating machine learning models into production and providing technical guidance to peers across data engineering and ML workflows.

What We're Looking For

• Data engineering expertise: 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing complex data pipelines and ETL workflows, including error handling, monitoring, and performance tuning, using tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Airflow, dbt, and Python.
• SQL and database mastery: Proficiency designing normalized schemas, optimizing complex queries, and applying advanced database features for high-performance analytical workloads.
• Machine learning and statistical methods: Experience developing and optimizing ML solutions, designing and executing hypothesis testing strategies, and applying statistical techniques to validate analytical approaches.
• Web analytics and product telemetry: Familiarity with event tracking, clickstream data, sessionization, and user identity resolution, with demonstrated experience building analytical datasets from web and product usage data.
• Data governance and quality: Experience implementing data standards, metadata management, lineage, ownership, and access controls, combined with the ability to design automated validation tests and anomaly detection to maintain data reliability.
• Communication and visualization: Ability to build complex, interactive visualizations and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, with strong skills in independently managing stakeholder relationships.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Salary Range Or On Target Earnings

$98,900.00 - $228,700.00

In addition to the base salary and/or OTE listed Zoom has a Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration; base salary, bonus and equity value.

Note: Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.

We also have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in this and other locations.

Anticipated Position Close Date

11/26/26

Ways of Working

Our structured hybrid approach is centered around our offices and remote work environments. The work style of each role, Hybrid, Remote, or In-Person is indicated in the job description/posting.

Benefits

As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways. Click Learn for more information.

About Us

Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out to build the best collaboration platform for the enterprise, and today help people communicate better with products like Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Phone, Zoom Events, Zoom Apps, Zoom Rooms, and Zoom Webinars.

We're problem-solvers, working at a fast pace to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

Our Commitment

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