Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Data

Zocdoc

full-time

Posted on: 10/20/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $179,444 - $270,750 per year

Lead

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSBigQueryHadoopKafkaSparkSQLTerraformUnity

About the role

Own platform reliability & operations for data infrastructure: capacity planning, incident response/on‑call, disaster recovery, and performance tuning across compute and storage (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Glue/Athena, Kinesis/Kafka).
Architect the lake / lakehouse layers (Delta Lake / Apache Iceberg / Hudi) with clear data contracts, schema evolution, compaction, and retention; build the controls that make it safe and fast.
Harden platform surfaces (networking, IAM, encryption, key management, VPC endpoints/PrivateLink, Lake Formation/Unity Catalog) for PHI/PII, auditing, and least‑privilege by default.
Establish observability for data systems (Datadog/CloudWatch): golden signals, lineage, SLIs/SLOs, and cost telemetry/FinOps.
Infrastructure‑as‑Code everything (Terraform/CDK) including EMR/EKS clusters, Snowflake roles/warehouses, secrets, and CI/CD for data platform changes.
Optimize warehouse usage (Snowflake preferred; BigQuery/Redshift welcome): warehouse sizing/queuing, clustering, pruning, caching, RBAC, cost controls.
Partner with data engineering & security to set platform standards (orchestration like Dagster/Airflow; governance via Unity Catalog/Collibra/Lake Formation; quality and metadata services).

8+ years in infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering (or hybrid data platform) with deep AWS expertise (networking, IAM, CDK, S3, EKS, EMR, Glue, Lambda; multi‑account patterns).
Expertise running distributed data processing at scale with Spark (Databricks or EMR/EKS), plus working knowledge of Hadoop/Hive/Presto/Trino.
Strong SQL fundamentals and data modeling; Snowflake (or BigQuery/Redshift) performance and cost optimization.
Proven leadership establishing SLOs, runbooks, incident response, and reliability tooling for data platforms.
Solid IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and security‑by‑default mindset for PHI/PII.

Benefits

Flexible, hybrid work environment at our convenient Soho location
Unlimited Vacation
100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)
Commuter Benefits
401(k) with employer funded match
Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton
Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service)
Competitive paid parental leave and fertility/family planning reimbursement
Cell phone reimbursement
Catered lunch everyday along with beverages and snacks
Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging
Great Place to Work Certified

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

capacity planningincident responsedisaster recoveryperformance tuningdata modelingSQLInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CDdata processingsecurity-by-default

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