Senior Software Engineer, Data

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop the data platform that integrates Zocdoc products with analytics, machine learning, and operational systems.

• Create APIs, libraries, schemas, services, and workflows that enable engineers to publish and utilize data securely.

• Design, construct, and manage developer tools, contract workflows, APIs, SDKs, generated types, and validation tools.

• Enhance event-driven data pathways using Kafka, Avro, and schema registries, ensuring clear delivery semantics, compatibility rules, and safe schema evolution.

• Transfer curated warehouse or lakehouse data into products and operational systems through dependable reverse ETL and data activation pathways.

• Establish compliance capabilities, including data classification, deletion and masking workflows, access controls, audit trails, and policy enforcement.

• Write infrastructure as code and manage platform services within AWS.

• Enhance service-level indicators, alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and on-call response protocols.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, document supported workflows, review designs and code, and assist teammates in building adoptable systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial contributions in backend, platform, developer infrastructure, or data-intensive systems.

• Proficient programming skills in Python, practical experience with SQL, and familiarity with at least one statically typed language such as C#, Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript.

• Proven experience in creating APIs, SDKs, shared libraries, data contract systems, or event publishing frameworks utilized beyond your team.

• Strong understanding of schema design, versioning, validation, code generation, and migrations.

• Experience with distributed or event-driven systems, encompassing delivery guarantees, idempotency, retries, ordering, dead-letter handling, and operational failure modes.

• Practical experience with Kafka or a similar platform, along with schema technologies like Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema, or OpenAPI.

• Experience managing cloud services with automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, infrastructure as code, and incident response.

• Familiarity with warehouse or lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Iceberg.

• Bonus: software development experience in a regulated environment and practical controls for PHI or PII, including access, deletion, de-identification, lineage, and auditing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment

• Unlimited Vacation

• 100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)

• 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

• Employee Resource Groups and ZocClubs to promote shared community and belonging

• Great Place to Work Certified