
Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Zocdoc
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and ship platform services for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata (e.g., service‑backed interfaces for Dagster/Airflow, lineage, quality, and data contracts).
- Build execution & scheduling capabilities for Spark/SQL jobs (queuing, prioritization, retries, resource isolation on EMR/EKS/Databricks), focusing on throughput and developer experience.
- Implement lakehouse features (Delta/Iceberg): schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, vacuum, snapshotting, ACID guarantees, and table‑format governance
- Optimize Snowflake and other warehouses: cost controls, query profiling/pruning, workload isolation, RBAC; expose safe self‑service patterns.
- Deliver SDKs, CLIs, and templates that standardize how teams build reliable data products; enable CI/CD for data and contract testing.
- Work across AWS (S3, EMR/EKS, Glue/Athena, Lambda, Kinesis/MSK) with IaC (Terraform) and strong observability (Datadog/CloudWatch).
Requirements
- 8+ years building backend/platform software with Python/Scala/Java and strong SQL; proven track record designing distributed systems.
- Deep experience with Spark (Databricks or EMR/EKS) and AWS data services; solid grasp of scheduler/executor behavior and performance tradeoffs.
- Hands‑on data warehouse optimization (Snowflake ideal; others welcome).
- Experience building platform APIs/SDKs that other engineers adopt; excellent collaboration and technical leadership.
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 program with Wellhub
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonScalaJavaSQLSparkDatabricksSnowflakeTerraformACIDdata contracts
Soft Skills
collaborationtechnical leadership