Principal Data Platform Engineer, Stitchfix
$149.6-220k
+ Equity
Online personal styling
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Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$149.6-220k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of experience building cloud-scale data infrastructure or ML platforms
- You've contributed to AI-focused systems such as LLM APIs, RAG/GraphRAG, vector search, or knowledge graphs
- You've worked with vector and graph databases to support intelligent querying and semantic discovery
- You're hands-on with Spark, SQL, and Python and/or Scala with strong experience building scalable APIs and services
- You understand streaming systems such as Kafka or Flink and how to design for real-time insights
- You have experience with orchestration systems, CI/CD, and production monitoring
- You're interested in defining data product standards, governance-by-design, and AI observability metrics
- You thrive in cross-functional, collaborative environments and navigate evolving priorities effectively
- You're detail-oriented, curious, and passionate about building infrastructure people love to use
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team builds the foundation that powers everything from Stitch Fix's signature personalization to our most cutting-edge AI innovations
- We exist to make our data scientists and engineers wildly productive - by delivering fast, flexible, and trusted infrastructure that fuels experimentation, recommendations, insights, and a new generation of AI/ML-powered experiences
- As a Data Platform Engineer, you'll evolve Stitch Fix's modern data stack to support the next wave of AI/ML-powered products, analytics, and knowledge systems
- This is a high-impact individual contributor role on the Data Platform team
- You’ll help make our data platform easier to scale, easier to find information in, and more reliable as we build AI into our workflows
- You’ll work with teams across the company to make sure our systems can support smarter automation and deliver better insights
- Evolve our core data stack (Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink) to meet the scale and latency demands of AI workloads
- Define and implement observability, lineage, and access standards for our data products and AI applications
- Support critical data pipelines while creating abstractions that simplify end-user interactions
- Unify workflows from data ingestion to model serving, ensuring a shared foundation for feature stores, ML observability, and semantic modeling
- Design and build foundational AI data capabilities supporting LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG/GraphRAG), semantic data layers, and vectorized search
- Work with teams to build well-documented, AI-friendly datasets that power analytics, personalization, and better business decisions
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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