Zipline International Inc.

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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