# Distinguished Engineer - Distinguished Engineer, Data Foundation

Hiring organization: [Intuit](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/intuit)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/261bfdeb-47ca-48fd-9fc1-3b7309ac8c96

Listed on Intuit's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Distinguished
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Salary: 273000 – 369500 USD per year

## Summary

Intuit is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to architect and govern the company's data platform and semantic infrastructure across all business units, from raw data ingestion through governance to AI-ready knowledge layers. This role suits someone with 15+ years building massive-scale data systems who can set technical direction across dozens of teams and personally tackle the highest-leverage problems at the intersection of data, AI, and compliance.

_Our summary, not Intuit's wording._

## Skills named

Agentic Workflows, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Data Governance, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), SPARK

## Required

- 15+ years building large-scale data platforms at tens-of-millions-user scale
- Deep expertise across modern data stack: distributed storage, compute, streaming, orchestration, governance, cataloging, cloud data services
- Demonstrated experience designing semantic layers, metrics layers, knowledge graphs, or entity data management
- Track record setting technical direction at company scale with architecture artifacts
- Fluency in data privacy and governance (GDPR/CCPA-class regulation)
- Understanding of how modern AI systems depend on well-modeled, governed data
- Experience designing distributed data and query systems with runtime optimizations
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Bias toward personally shipping and de-risking the hardest problems

## Nice to have

- Experience in fintech, tax, accounting, or other highly regulated data-intensive domain
- Prior ownership of a company-wide data platform or semantic layer used by multiple business units
- Contributions to open-source data infrastructure, industry standards bodies, or published research in data systems
- Experience building metadata and context infrastructure for production generative-AI or agentic platforms
- Experience with agentic interfaces and deep learning for large/sparse data problems

Apply on Intuit's site: https://jobs.intuit.com/job/mountain-view/distinguished-engineer-distinguished-engineer-data-foundation/27595/99807680096