Senior Data Engineer

Help build, maintain, and scale our data pipelines that bring together data from various internal and external systems into our data warehouse. 
Partner with internal stakeholders to understand analysis needs and consumption patterns.
Partner with upstream engineering teams to enhance data logging patterns and best practices. 
Participate in architectural decisions and help us plan for the company’s data needs as we scale. 
Adopt and evangelize data engineering best practices for data processing, modeling, and lake/warehouse development.  
Advise engineers and other cross-functional partners on how to most efficiently use our data tools.

What You’ll Bring 
Advanced knowledge of Python & SQL
Advanced proficiency with AWS cloud 
Experience working directly on a data-intensive product and maintaining business critical systems 
Experience building and maintaining  data pipelines & ETL/ELT processes
Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake and other OLAP databases 
Experience developing and maintaining customer-facing APIs 
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure best practices and experience working with continuous integration and continuous deployment processes and tools
Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders to define requirements and timelines 
Passion and excitement to serve as a technical mentor and thought leader and interest in evangelizing data engineering best practices 
Passion and excitement to build a strong data foundation for the company

Nice to haves: 
Experience building streaming applications or pipelines using  async messaging services or distributed streaming platforms like Apache Kafka 
Knowledge of Airflow or some other orchestration tool  
Experience with Spark or PySpark
Experience with supply chain, manufacturing, and/or logistics datasets
Knowledge of data governance best practices and experience working in a highly regulated industry
Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling, ideally using tools like dbt  .

What Else You Need to Know   

The starting cash range for this role is $160,000 – 190,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.   Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.   We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!