Zipline International Inc.
Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform
South San Francisco, California, USA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonRustSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceAI OrchestrationLogisticsCommunication
About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
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 that standardize dataset publishing and transformations.
- Own lakehouse and warehouse foundations, including table management, schema evolution, partitioning, workload isolation, access patterns, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with service, telemetry, embedded, analytics, data science, and ML teams
- lead technical reviews and align teams on durable platform interfaces and tradeoffs.
- Strong distributed-systems and data-systems foundations, with hands-on experience building and operating pipelines and data infrastructure at scale.
- Partner with service, telemetry, embedded, analytics, data science, and ML teams; lead technical reviews and align teams on durable platform interfaces and tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Experience with modern data warehouses, preferably Snowflake, and lakehouse table formats, data modeling, and transformation workflows such as dbt.
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and production operations, ideally AWS and Kubernetes, plus workflow orchestration tools such as Prefect or Airflow.
- Clear technical communication and influence.
- Experience with high-volume telemetry or sensor data, data observability, infrastructure-as-code, or safety-critical systems is strongly preferred.
Skills
- About Zipline
- Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back.
- About You and The Role
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