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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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