Zoro

Zoro

Sr. Software Engineer I, Data & ML Platform

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$105k-$175kDetected 5 days ago
PythonAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDJenkinsCircleCIPrometheusDatadogPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowData EngineeringResearchCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Zoro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join our Data and Machine Learning Platform team.
  • Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices, technical development, and ensuring high standards in code quality and platform functionality.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, self-service tools and automated workflows that enable partners to easily ingest, create, share, and use data, optimizing data processes and enhancing platform usability.
  • Implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability, identifying and resolving issues before they impact users.
  • Drive the continuous improvement of platform infrastructure, ensuring it remains robust, scalable, and easy for partners to adopt, and can accommodate evolving business needs.
  • Research and integrate new tools and technologies to drive innovation and enhance platform performance. Ensure the platform remains cutting-edge, adaptable, and aligned with industry best practices, while continuously developing your technical skills.
  • Create and update technical documentation and user guides for the team and platform users, ensuring that platform tools, workflows, and processes are clearly documented for easy adoption and internal knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborate proactively with cross-functional teams (data engineers, data scientists, software engineers) to identify requirements, align platform solutions with partner needs, and continuously enhance the user experience to support scalable, reliable, and user-friendly data products.
  • Zoro's total compensation plan includes our Zoro Incentive Plan (ZIP) that is designed to foster and reward our team members for strong performance.
  • We also support growing your family through access to adoption assistance program

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, software development, or a related field.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python) with demonstrated ability to write clean, well-documented code.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers, promoting best practices in software engineering and technical development.
  • Ability to write clear documentation and convey technical concepts to peers
  • Experience using containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated build tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI).
  • Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Argo, Flyte, or Kubeflow.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (IaC) technologies and automated infrastructure management/deployment patterns (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm)
  • Experience with monitoring and logging using tools like DataDog or Prometheus + Grafana.
  • Experience with batch and streaming data tools (e.g., Spark, Hadoop
  • Kafka, Pub/Sub) for large-scale data processing and real-time workflows.
  • Total compensation will be highly competitive.
  • Employee discounts and admission to various civic and cultural institutions around Chicago

Skills

  • Company Summary
  • make it easy for businesses to get the tools, parts, and supplies they need to keep things running.

Compensation

  • The pay range provided is not a guarantee of compensation.
  • $105,100 - $175,100 USD

Benefits

  • In addition to competitive compensation, Zoro offers comprehensive benefits and perks including:
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment
  • Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.
  • 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist and Wellhub portal membership to support your mental and emotional wellbeing
  • At least 18 paid time off days annually for full-time employees and 6 company holidays per year
  • 6% company contribution to a 401K Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required
  • Tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and access to financial counseling, education, and tools
  • Charitable Gift Program - match gift to an eligible educational, cultural, community health, and human service organizations
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  • Zoro office perks including coffee bar, beer on tap, unlimited snacks, access to the onsite gym, and incredible city skyline views

Company info

  • Winning & Learning Together, Being Customer Obsessed, Being Transparent, and Taking Ownership.
  • We don't have all the answers, but we're always asking good questions.
  • Zoro's culture has been recognized by Fortune, Best Places to Work, and Built In Chicago-but the recognition we care about most comes from our team members, who make this place what it is.
  • We also know that flexibility matters.
  • Our hybrid work model gives you space to focus and the flexibility to live your life - asking team members to be onsite at least two days a week.
  • Our Chicago HQ (right above Ogilvie Transportation Center in the Accenture Tower) is always open and ready for connection, collaboration, or just a good cup of coffee.
  • At Zoro, we're growing fast toward big aspirations - and we're continuously excited about the new challenges we get to solve together.
  • We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
  • We are also committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment.
  • Should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview, or hiring process, please advise us so that we can
  • We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.
  • Zoro was founded in 2011 with a simple idea: make it easy for businesses to get the tools, parts, and supplies they need to keep things running.

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