Staff Software Engineer, Zocdoc
Data Infrastructure
$179.4-270.8k
Salary applicable to NYC applicants only
API connecting patients to doctors
Be an early applicant
API connecting patients to doctors
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$179.4-270.8k
Salary applicable to NYC applicants only
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give power to the patient by delivering the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building backend/platform software with Python/Scala/Java and strong SQL; proven track record designing distributed systems
- Deep experience with Spark (Databricks or EMR/EKS) and AWS data services; solid grasp of scheduler/executor behavior and performance tradeoffs
- Hands‑on data warehouse optimization (Snowflake ideal; others welcome)
- Experience building platform APIs/SDKs that other engineers adopt; excellent collaboration and technical leadership
- You’ll enjoy this role if you are…
- A builder of platforms and frameworks (not just point pipelines)
- Comfortable with distributed systems abstractions (compute scheduling, storage layout, back‑pressure, retries, idempotency)
- Excited by lakehouse tech and modern data contracts, and you want to create self‑service for hundreds of use cases
Desirable
- Experience at petabyte‑scale data platforms, distributed big data compute, or lakehouse engines (Delta/Iceberg)
- Familiarity with metadata/governance tech (Unity Catalog, Collibra, Lake Formation)
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure), you’ll lead the design and development of the software that underpins our data platform: ingestion frameworks, execution services, orchestration, metadata, data governance, and developer experience
- Your focus is building APIs, libraries, and services that make data producers/consumers effective, while optimizing reliability, performance, and spend on AWS
- Design and ship platform services for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata (e.g., service‑backed interfaces for Dagster/Airflow, lineage, quality, and data contracts)
- Build execution & scheduling capabilities for Spark/SQL jobs (queuing, prioritization, retries, resource isolation on EMR/EKS/Databricks), focusing on throughput and developer experience
- Implement lakehouse features (Delta/Iceberg): schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, vacuum, snapshotting, ACID guarantees, and table‑format governance
- Optimize Snowflake and other warehouses: cost controls, query profiling/pruning, workload isolation, RBAC; expose safe self‑service patterns
- Deliver SDKs, CLIs, and templates that standardize how teams build reliable data products; enable CI/CD for data and contract testing
- Work across AWS (S3, EMR/EKS, Glue/Athena, Lambda, Kinesis/MSK) with IaC (Terraform) and strong observability (Datadog/CloudWatch)
Our take
The healthcare system often runs on inefficiencies; patients call outdated directories, wait weeks for a visit to a professional and are often hit with surprise bills. Zocdoc was founded to streamline the healthcare experience by putting the patient first.
The platform allows millions of users each month to view open appointment times with doctors, book instantly online, read verified reviews, and keep up-to-date with checkups. The platform works for both in-person and virtual care – the latter of which has seen a substantial increase in demand. Zocdoc is one of the few companies tackling these problems in healthcare.
The company has solidified its position in the SaaS space, in part by forming partnerships with companies such as WellHive, a leader in digital care, to drive healthcare support for veterans. Going forward, Zocdoc will continue to invest in its platform to optimize its services for its users.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2021
$150m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2015
$130m
SERIES D
Total funding: $374m
Company benefits
- 100% paid employee health benefit options
- Vacation and parental leave packages
- Lunch and snacks on us (in-office)
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton
- Employer funded 401(k) match
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Oliver Kharra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Oliver trained as a doctor in Germany before moving into consulting where he worked for McKinsey. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains
Nick (Nikhil) Ganju
(Co-Founder)Nick has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture. He was responsible for building the earliest iterations of ZocDoc and directly overseeing its development for many of its first years
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