About the role

What will you do at Zoox?

Zoox is seeking a high-agency, hands-on Lead Data Platform Engineer to architect, optimize, scale and own the next generation of our enterprise & AI data foundation.

In this role, you will

architect a high throughput, data fabric that unifies data across Zoox and downstream AI agents.
You will drive performance tuning, cost optimization, RBAC, data governance and CI/CD pipelines to deliver secure, low-latency, 'AI-ready' data foundations across the organization.
You will serve as the primary technical driver for our data platform, designing autonomous frameworks, building scalable data infrastructure and establishing strict standards for security and developer velocity.
This is an engineering-intensive leadership role for a builder who thrives on solving complex challenges.

Which skills does this role require?

data architectureperformance tuningcost optimizationdata governanceCI/CD

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