Senior Data Platform Engineer, Zipline
$160-190k
3-5 days a week in office
Transforming the way goods move
Open for applications
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-190k
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up access to emergency medical care to everyone in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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 the job involves
- We are hiring a talented and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our small, but growing Data team and play a critical role in designing and executing on a robust and forward-looking data strategy for the company
- Our team owns the data pipelines and tools that provide secure, reliable, and accessible data that enable team members to derive actionable insights
- Doing our job well means that we enable the entire organization’s ability to make more informed decisions, innovate faster, and serve our customers better
- In this role, you will work directly with our Data, Engineering, Operations, Go-to-Market, and Finance teams to support the organization's data processing and analytics needs
- You will be the internal expert on all things data engineering, empowering your peers with your expertise so that together, we can build a world-class data culture
- This is a unique opportunity to directly influence not only our data systems, but also our drones and global operations
- The ideal candidate will help us design systems that support the company’s needs today and many years into the future
- 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
Our take
Zipline is transforming the way goods move by creating the first logistics system that serves all humans equally via a drone delivery service. As the first emergency drone logistics operation, Zipline is fundamentally changing how we transport emergency medical supplies and has expanded into commercial deliveries. It's partnered with several major companies, including Walmart.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. It is also aiming to start commercial deliveries to individual households in the near future. With big companies such as Amazon and Walmart examining “instant” delivery options, Zipline has a proven track record and the equipment and logistics in place to provide such services. 2023 funding pushed Zipline's valuation to a staggering $4.2 billion, indicating a bright future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$330m
SERIES F
Jul 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $813.7m
Company benefits
- Generous parental leave
- Generous vacation policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly team events
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Healthy, delicious meals and snacks
- Dog-friendly offices
Company values
- Customer obsession - The standard of care
- Ownership - Getting the job done
- Transparency - Breeds trust
- Continuous improvement - Tackling hard problems
- Serve Your Species - Empowering one another
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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