Lead Software Engineer - Data Platform

About the Team

The Data Platform team builds the foundation that powers everything from Stitch Fixs 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 now a whole new generation of AI/ML-powered experiences.

About the Role

As a Data Platform Engineer youll evolve Stitch Fixs 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.

Youll help make our data platform easier to scale easier to find information in and more reliable as we build AI into our workflows. Youll work with teams across the company to make sure our systems can support smarter automation and deliver better insights.

Youre excited about this opportunity because you will

• 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

Were excited about you because

• You have 5-8 years of experience building cloud-scale data infrastructure or ML platforms
• Youre 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
• Youre interested in defining data product standards governance-by-design and AI observability metrics
• Youre detail-oriented curious and passionate about building infrastructure people love to use

Why youll love working at Stitch Fix...

• We are a group of bright kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity innovation and trust. Youll bring these characteristics to life in everything you do at Stitch Fix.
• We cultivate a community of diverse perspectives all voices are heard and valued.
• We are an innovative company and leverage our strengths in fashion and tech to disrupt the future of retail.
• We win as a team commit to our work and celebrate grit together because we value strong relationships.
• We boldly create the future while keeping equity and sustainability at the center of all that we do.
• We are the owners of our work and are energized by solving problems through a growth mindset lens. We think broadly and creatively through every situation to create meaningful impact.
• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits.