Data Engineer at Zoox in Foster City, CA

Summary: Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. The Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that transforms autonomous vehicle data at scale to support analytics throughout the company, ensuring data integrity and enabling a data-first culture as the company scales. Responsibilities: - Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that transforms autonomous vehicle data at scale to support analytics throughout the company - Define and execute on how data from perception, prediction, planning and other parts of the autonomous stack is consumed to generate valuable insights by data scientists, engineers, and business users - Establish robust data integrity monitoring so that company-wide metrics are based on accurate data - Partner with engineering and product teams to define data consumption patterns and establish best practices Required Qualifications: - BS/MS degree in a technical field - Experience designing and building complex data modeling at scale - Advanced Structure Query Language (SQL) and data warehousing experience - Experience operating a workflow manager such as Airflow - Experience with large scale streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis), processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop) and storage engines (e.g. HDFS, HBase) Preferred Qualifications: - Exceptional Python or Scala skills - Basic fluency in C++ - Familiarity with or exposure to experimentation platforms - A strong DataOps mindset and opinions on next-generation warehousing tools Required Skills: Data modeling, Advanced SQL, Workflow management, Streaming platforms Important Skills: Processing frameworks, Storage engines Nice-to-Have Skills: Python, Scala, C++, DataOps mindset Benefits: Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement), Unpaid time off, Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights, Amazon RSUs, Health insurance, Long-term care insurance, Long-term and short-term disability insurance, Life insurance