Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

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.

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.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain data pipelines, optimize workflows, manage infrastructure, and enhance pipeline observability while collaborating with teams for effective data delivery.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Lead the evolution of data platform by designing scalable pipelines, improving data processes, mentoring teams, and modernizing data architecture.

Own and architect large-scale data pipelines, orchestration, and integrations. Drive IaC strategy (Terraform), third-party API and AI/LLM tool integrations, build export pipelines and internal tooling, mentor engineers, and align cross-team technical strategy for reliable, scalable data infrastructure.

Own SQL and dbt-based data modeling and data quality for clinical and claims datasets. Author and refactor dbt models/tests, triage DQ alerts, design monitors, optimize SQL performance, and collaborate with Data Engineering and stakeholders to ensure trusted production datasets.

The Data Engineer will develop and implement ETL processes, design data architectures, work with data platforms, and ensure data solutions meet scalability and security needs. Responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and optimize data transformations.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Python. Design ETL workflows, implement distributed data processing, use version control (Git), and work with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Support a Department of State data engineering program: review data policies and governance, define requirements, build and maintain Palantir-based data pipelines, clean and integrate datasets, detect and remediate data fidelity and pipeline issues, produce analyses and visualizations, and coordinate with non-technical users and stakeholders.

As a Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, support DoD systems, and ensure data quality and compliance.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines and platforms (development through production). Embed security, automation, CI/CD and testing; monitor, tune, and resolve incidents; provide technical design, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable healthcare-focused data products.

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

Design and manage financial systems for accurate cashback calculations, build and maintain reconciliation processes, ensure data integrity for yield-bearing instruments, collaborate with compliance, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve financial system efficiency.

Build and support high-performance data solutions, design and operate ETL pipelines and data warehouses, monitor production analytics tools, troubleshoot system issues, collaborate with product teams, and support TechOps for analytics infrastructure.

Lead design and hands-on delivery of a next-generation data platform and pipelines (batch, ELT, near-real-time) powering BI, experimentation, and ML. Own platform architecture, data modeling, governance, observability, and mentor engineers while modernizing legacy systems and driving AI-first data engineering practices across cross-functional teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of a cloud-native, petabyte-scale data platform: define technical roadmap, mentor engineers, build ETL/ELT pipelines, enable real-time streaming, implement Iceberg table format, optimize Snowflake/Redshift/Athena compute, and integrate observability with Splunk.

Design, build, and optimize scalable AWS-based data pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses. Migrate legacy systems, enforce data quality/security/governance, implement ETL/ELT and big-data solutions, adopt CI/CD and IaC, collaborate with stakeholders, and provide technical leadership and troubleshooting.

Lead end-to-end data engineering on GCP: design scalable data platforms and architectures (lake/lakehouse/warehouse), build and optimize BigQuery/Spark pipelines, ensure data quality/security, enable ML workflows with Data Science, mentor engineers, and own delivery and performance.

Design, build, modernize, and maintain operational and analytical data capabilities for Wealthscape Reporting, Analytics and Insights. Perform solution design, data analysis, ETL development, and production rollouts using Snowflake, AWS, cloud databases, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and orchestration using Airflow, Python, and PySpark. Develop custom connectors, implement DataOps and CI/CD for data workflows, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines, validate data quality, and document processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting large-scale distributed data systems.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS using EMR, Spark, and PySpark. Optimize EMR clusters and Spark jobs, implement ETL/ELT processes, ensure data quality, automate ingestion, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts. Document infrastructure, participate in code reviews, and monitor performance and costs.