Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

ZipRecruiter

Senior BI Engineer designing data systems and AI-powered tooling for ZipRecruiter. Collaborating with cross-functional teams on data architecture and analysis.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect across business and engineering: Lead the design and implementation of data systems that serve both our operational business stakeholders (RevOps, Decision Science) and our product and engineering teams.
Extend our internal AI platform: Contribute to and help shape the future with work that compounds across every analysis we run at Zip.
Set the engineering bar for data: Bring software engineering rigor to data work: testing, CI/CD, code review, version control, observability and evangelize these practices across the team.
Build and own data models: Translate complex, cross-domain business questions into robust, well-tested, reusable data sets and models.
Partner with product engineering: Collaborate directly with engineering teams to embed analytical and data-modeling capabilities into product systems and pipelines.
Mentor and uplevel: Coach teammates, raise the technical bar, and help establish standards that scale beyond any single project.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years as a Data Engineer, analytics/BI Engineer or in a similar role at a senior IC level.
Advanced SQL and deep proficiency in data modeling, schema design, and query optimization.
Strong grasp of data warehouse architecture and modern modeling methodologies.
Hands-on experience applying software engineering practices to data work: Git, CI/CD, code review, automated testing, monitoring.
Proficiency with cloud-based data platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar).
Strong communicator who is comfortable working across both business stakeholders and engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Exceptional benefits package
Flexible vacation and paid time off
Employer matched 401(k) plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdata modelingschema designquery optimizationdata warehouse architectureCI/CDautomated testingmonitoringdata systems designdata analysis

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringcollaborationcoachingleadership