Zoox
Lead Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise, Data & AI
$230K–$277K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in Data Platform Engineering or Software Engineering.
About the job
Architects, builds, and owns Zoox’s enterprise data platform, enabling secure, scalable, high-performance data access for analytics and AI agents.
What you'll do
- Scale self-healing data pipelines with automated schema handling, anomaly detection, and recovery.
- Establish data governance, security, access controls, quality testing, and metadata standards.
- Optimize storage, compute, and query performance; build CI/CD templates and deployment testing for data assets.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in Data Platform Engineering or Software Engineering.
- Expertise in scaling, optimization, query tuning, compute allocation, and compute-storage lifecycle policies.
- Experience with enterprise security, RBAC, Active Directory/IAM roles, data masking, and compliance requirements.
- Experience establishing data governance, schema evolution controls, data quality audits, observability, and automated CI/CD deployments.
Nice to have
- Experience incorporating LLMs or GenAI into pipeline operations.
- Experience with Terraform, EKS, GPU/CPU optimization, or autonomous vehicle, robotics, or high-tech manufacturing sectors.
Pay
USD 230,000–277,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
Databricks, EMR (AWS), Active Directory/IAM, LLMs, GenAI, Terraform, EKS
AI focus
Builds AI-ready data foundations for AI agents; bonus work includes using LLMs or GenAI in pipeline operations such as code generation, triage, root-cause analysis, reconciliation, backfills, and anomaly detection.
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