Data Platform Engineer-AI & Insights Enablement

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Data Platform team as a Data Platform Engineer and evolve the company's modern data stack to support the next wave of AI/ML-powered products. You will play a crucial role in making the data platform more scalable, reliable, and user-friendly. Responsibilities include evolving the core data stack (Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink), defining and implementing observability and access standards, supporting critical data pipelines, and unifying workflows from data ingestion to model serving. This high-impact role requires 5-8 years of experience in building cloud-scale data infrastructure or ML platforms, hands-on experience with various technologies, and a passion for building user-friendly infrastructure. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity.

Requirements

• You have 5-8 years of experience building cloud-scale data infrastructure or ML platforms
• 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're detail-oriented, curious, and passionate about building infrastructure people love to use

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity
• The position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance
• In addition, the position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits