Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

As a Data Engineer, you'll lead data engineering projects, develop data transformations, build workflows with Apache Airflow, and ensure data quality and integrity while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Data Engineer will architect and develop robust data frameworks for data platforms, focusing on data transformations and automated workflows. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring data quality, and maintaining high engineering standards.

Build, model, and maintain scalable BigQuery-based data solutions on GCP. Implement performant data models, storage partitioning/clustering, ETL improvements, data validation, and documentation. Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and engineers to deliver governed, high-quality data for reporting and AI initiatives.

Design and maintain data architecture and pipelines to support compliance and risk teams. Build and optimize data models, standardize metrics, and create data dictionaries. Implement data quality, lineage monitoring, AI-driven agents for false-positive reduction and automation, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure SLAs are met.

Lead design and scaling of the data platform and analytics pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, serverless data services, and reliable data models. Mentor teammates, improve automation, observability, and data governance to support analytics and operational insights.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

Design and develop Power BI semantic models and scalable reporting solutions using Databricks Lakehouse. Build advanced SQL and DAX logic, optimize performance, enforce dataset governance, implement data quality checks, and develop predictive models. Collaborate with data engineering, refactor reports to governed semantic models, automate analytical workflows, and provide technical guidance and code reviews to junior developers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on Databricks using PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and cloud platforms. Troubleshoot performance and quality issues, implement data governance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and document pipelines and data models to deliver reliable, production-ready data products.

Design, build, and maintain AWS-based data pipelines and ETL processes using Glue, Spark/PySpark and EMR. Integrate multiple data sources into data lakes and Redshift, implement DevOps CI/CD practices, and work with Kafka, Hudi, and various AWS storage and analytics services.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native data pipelines (Ingest→Transform→Expose) using Airflow, Spark, dbt, and Iceberg. Ingest and normalize HL7/FHIR/OMOP and other structured/unstructured data for analytics and AI, implement schema versioning and governance, ensure interoperability and compliance with DoD Responsible AI and NIST frameworks, and collaborate with DevSecOps and Data Science teams to deliver production-ready datasets.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

Design and build a medallion architecture using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, create and maintain data ingestion pipelines, and implement governance, lineage, documentation, and quality checks to support self-serve analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead design and optimization of data models and pipelines for compliance and risk; standardize metrics and documentation; build data quality, lineage, and monitoring (including AI agents for automation); manage ETL scheduling, on-call pipeline support, and collaborate with product and non-technical partners to translate business needs into automated, production-ready data solutions.

Lead design and implementation of scalable cloud data lakes, warehouses, and marts. Build ELT/ETL pipelines, apply Data Vault 2.0 and dimensional modeling, implement data quality, lineage, observability, and governance. Optimize Snowflake/Databricks/Synapse platforms, champion CI/CD and DataOps, mentor engineers, and enable AI/ML-ready data products through collaboration with architecture and product teams.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

The role involves architecting intelligence infrastructure, building data pipelines, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring data accessibility and security for threat detection systems.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

Lead enterprise data platform strategy and architecture, define data standards and governance, drive Snowflake maturity, oversee legacy data migrations, design ingestion and DataOps patterns, and enable analytics, reporting, AI, and reusable data products across the organization.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure cloud data pipelines and products. Translate requirements into architecture, apply advanced data modeling (Data Vault 2.0/dimensional), embed data quality, observability, security, and DataOps/CI-CD practices, optimize performance and cost, mentor engineers, and enable AI/ML-ready datasets within an agile DevSecOps model.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines and platforms (Azure preferred). Implement DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and production readiness. Mentor engineers, drive operational excellence, and translate requirements into robust technical designs. Apply healthcare domain knowledge and collaborate in agile teams to deliver secure, reliable data products.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and ELT processes using Python, SQL, Airflow, and dbt within AWS. Design optimized schemas in PostgreSQL and Redshift, leverage AI/LLMs to improve development, automation, testing, and data quality, and scale infrastructure for large healthcare datasets.