Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Design and build PerfectServe’s unified cloud data platform, including ingestion pipelines, integrations, data models, metrics, and consumer-facing data layers. Establish architecture, engineering, quality, and testing standards; enable safe extraction from production systems; partner with data users; and mentor data engineers. The role requires substantial cloud data platform experience, deep SQL, warehouse expertise, ELT, change-data-capture, AWS, modeling, orchestration, and data quality skills.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for defining data architecture strategy, building fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming infrastructure, and managing scalable lakehouse and database systems. The role processes telemetry from millions of connected devices, drives performance tuning and data quality, supports on-call operations, evaluates modern technologies, and mentors engineers. It requires strong expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data platforms, streaming systems, infrastructure as code, and enterprise-scale architecture.

Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, implement medallion architecture, support data migrations and legacy SSRS decommissioning, develop Power BI data models, and maintain governance, security, and CI/CD practices. The role also supports migration events and modernizes data infrastructure for advanced analytics and reporting.

Designs and maintains scalable cloud data architectures, pipelines, ETL processes, data warehouses, databases, and data models. Ensures data quality, accuracy, security, availability, and consistency across sources. Develops SQL queries for analytics and reporting, and documents pipelines, schemas, architectures, and models. The role requires expertise with Python, Java, Scala, R, SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, and Snowflake.

Designs and manages scalable data pipelines, contracts, transformation layers, and analytics models. The role focuses on data governance, observability, lineage, configuration validation, and collaboration with product engineering teams. It requires processing large datasets, integrating cloud and on-premises industrial technologies, and implementing streaming and message-queuing solutions, ideally in cybersecurity or industrial environments.

Designs and maintains scalable data architecture, warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data platforms. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, integrity, governance, accessibility, reliability, and performance; supporting customer onboarding and analytics tools; contributing to architecture and engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex data issues; and participating in on-call rotations. The role collaborates with engineering, product, solutions, business intelligence, and other cross-functional teams in healthcare and social care data environments.

Designs, analyzes, documents, integrates, and migrates complex environmental datasets for AirHub business lines. Responsibilities include analyzing legacy databases, creating logical and physical data models, documenting mappings and business rules, developing migration specifications and API integrations, supporting data governance and testing, and producing technical documentation. The role also requires close collaboration with business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Develops scalable data models, Databricks pipelines, backend applications, ETL processes, and data ingestion systems. Partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps; monitors and optimizes data systems for performance, reliability, and scalability. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, conducts code reviews, and builds secure solutions for sensitive healthcare data.

Build and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, warehouses, transformation layers, and ML production systems. Lead data infrastructure architecture, warehouse performance optimization, DataOps monitoring, CI/CD improvements, data quality testing, and large-scale data product delivery. Collaborate across teams, promote data stewardship, and support batch and streaming pipelines while deploying, serving, and monitoring machine learning models.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Design scalable API-based ETL, event-driven and batch processing systems; establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling; and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving complex platform initiatives to completion.

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.

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.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Snowflake data pipelines and workflows. Ingest, transform, and deliver data from EHRs, claims, APIs, and CRM systems into analytics-ready structures. Optimize Snowflake performance and costs through warehouse sizing, query tuning, data modeling, and security design. Implement orchestration, DevOps, version control, and CI/CD practices while collaborating with client architects and analysts. The role also involves explaining technical tradeoffs, supporting repeatable deployments, adapting to unfamiliar challenges, and mentoring others.

Build and maintain modern data-centric applications, pipelines, transformations, enrichment processes, provisioning layers, and user interfaces supporting clinical and operational healthcare processes. Analyze clinical data and report trends using cloud, big data, data science, and modern software development practices. Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams, mentor Data Engineers, document solutions, manage source control, and research emerging technologies.

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Design and deliver modern data platforms, scalable and secure ingestion and transformation pipelines, durable data models, streaming systems, and reporting layers. Partner directly with clients and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture, explain tradeoffs, and own delivery outcomes. The role includes production implementation across cloud data platforms, orchestration, governance, real-time technologies, and analytics or AI data consumption.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

Own and evolve Worldly’s production data lake, Postgres warehouse, CDC and streaming pipelines, dbt transformations, orchestration, BI access controls, and graph integrations. Maintain reliable, governed analytics infrastructure using Iceberg, Trino, Dagster, Terraform, and AWS. Support production generative AI workflows involving embeddings, similarity search, extraction, and classification. Responsibilities include data quality, monitoring, security, incident response, disaster recovery, schema governance, and collaboration with data science and analytics stakeholders.

Designs, administers, and optimizes data systems supporting FSA IAM applications. Develops migration plans from legacy AIMS and PAS systems, creates data models, mappings, layouts, dictionaries, and integration processes, and supports analytics and fraud detection. Manages database configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, backups, capacity, secure data handling, encryption, network data flows, token management, and documentation while collaborating with development, security, and operations teams.

Manage, design, and optimize data activities for federal IAM systems. Develop data models, file layouts, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, integrations, ETL processes, and analytics support for identity analysis and fraud detection. Administer and tune databases, including configuration, backups, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Support secure handling of identity and PII data, network-related data flows, documentation, token management processes, and collaboration across development, security, and operations teams.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable enterprise data platforms supporting ingestion, processing, storage, governance, analytics, and AI/ML. Responsibilities include developing batch and real-time pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse architectures, orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, cost optimization, and observability. The role partners with data, ML, DevOps, security, and application teams, troubleshoots complex platform issues, establishes reusable engineering standards, contributes to architecture strategy, and mentors engineers.

Build and extend automated enterprise data governance and quality frameworks. Define measurable trust rules, data contracts, validation and certification workflows, metadata, lineage, tagging, and trust scoring across a cloud data platform. Integrate governance checks into developer workflows and Collibra, coach engineering and product teams, and establish organization-wide data trust standards. The role requires strong SQL, BigQuery or comparable warehouse experience, and expertise with data quality or observability tools.

Build and maintain production-grade dbt data models and pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and visualization. Develop reliable datasets supporting reporting, analysis, finance, revenue recognition, and company decision-making. Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Sales, Product, and Marketing to understand data needs, improve manual workflows, validate data accuracy, and create scalable solutions using modern data tools.