Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Backend

Zoro.com; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Zoro.com is seeking a software engineer in the data domain to build APIs, backend services, and data-processing systems powering internal and customer-facing capabilities. This is a software engineering role with an emphasis on data, not just ELT/ETL.

You’ll own systems, participate in design reviews, and operate what you ship within a data-focused team. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering or software development, strong API design skills, and experience with data pipelines,

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in data engineering or software development, with a track record of designing and delivering production data systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production APIs, backend services, libraries, operational data stores, and data-processing applications.
• Participate in system design, design reviews, and technical tradeoff discussions.
• Design clear interfaces, service boundaries, schemas, and data contracts.
• Write modular, testable, observable, and maintainable software.
• Own systems through deployment, monitoring, incident response, maintenance, and retirement.
• Build reliable systems that handle retries, schema changes, duplicate events, partial failures, and unexpected inputs.
• Use AI throughout design, planning, implementation, testing, review, and codebase exploration.
• Validate AI-generated output and remain responsible for understanding and operating what you ship.
• Share useful AI workflows, experiments, and lessons with the team.
• Participate in on-call and improve systems based on production experience.

Skills

Backend services

API design

Operational databases

Event-driven

Queues

Idempotency

Cloud infra

Data pipelines

AI-assisted reviews

AI experimentation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Job description

Zoro.com is seeking a software engineer in the data domain to build APIs, backend services, and data-processing systems powering internal and customer-facing capabilities. This is a software engineering role with an emphasis on data, not just ELT/ETL.

You’ll own systems, participate in design reviews, and operate what you ship within a data-focused team. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering or software development, strong API design skills, and experience with data pipelines,