Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Your Impact on our Mission:

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform to define and lead the evolution of Zocdoc’s data platform at the intersection of data engineering and product engineering.

This role owns how data moves into, across, and out of our lakehouse and warehouse ecosystems. You’ll shape the contracts, access patterns, APIs, governance controls, and interoperability standards that enable teams to reliably produce and consume data at scale.

Unlike a traditional data engineering role, this position is focused on platform experience and data product design — building the frameworks, contracts, and service interfaces that make data trustworthy, compliant, and easy to use across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You will define how:

• Product teams publish high-quality, validated data into the platform
• Analytics and ML teams consume governed datasets with confidence
• Reverse ETL and activation patterns safely operationalize data back into product systems
• Access control, compliance, and governance are embedded into platform design by default

This is a highly cross-functional leadership role requiring deep data engineering expertise, strong product thinking, and the ability to influence standards across the organization.

You’ll enjoy this role if you are…

• Passionate about designing data contracts and producer/consumer interfaces, not just pipelines.
• Excited to build APIs, SDKs, and shared packages that product engineers adopt.
• Motivated to define clear access patterns across warehouse, lakehouse, and downstream systems.
• Energized by solving governance, schema evolution, and compliance challenges at scale.
• Comfortable setting long-term architectural direction while still diving into implementation details.
• Experienced in building a data product used broadly across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excited about leveraging AI-assisted and agentic workflows to multiply engineering productivity.
• Thoughtful about the guardrails, access controls, and governance required when enabling GenAI systems to interact with sensitive data.

Your day to day is…

• Defining and evolving data contract standards across the company, including schema enforcement, versioning, and validation patterns.
• Designing interoperable ingestion and p