Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and maintain scalable Python-based data pipelines and cloud-native solutions supporting U.S. Army financial-system modernization. Develop ETL/ELT workflows using AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch; integrate APIs and diverse file formats; improve data reliability, performance, security, and governance; implement testing and monitoring; and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders in an Agile environment.

Lead product data engineering across architecture, data modeling, pipelines, monitoring, lineage, and data quality. Build reliable analytical datasets, support experimentation and machine learning use cases, and resolve business-critical pipeline issues. Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business needs into automated data solutions. The role requires ownership of end-to-end data engineering projects, on-call participation, and development of AI-assisted monitoring and automation.

Lead product data engineering initiatives by designing data models, owning critical pipelines, building data quality and lineage monitoring, and supporting experimentation and ML-ready datasets. Translate business needs into automated data solutions, maintain pipeline SLAs through on-call support, and develop AI-assisted tools for issue detection and resolution. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Applied AI teams across Block’s products.

Build and own scalable data platforms and ingestion pipelines using BigQuery, dbt, and modern ingestion tools. Design batch and CDC workflows, improve reliability and observability, implement governance and access controls, and support analytics and AI agents. Develop Python services and internal tooling, contribute to architecture and lakehouse experiments, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong SQL, Python, cloud infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development experience.

Develop and maintain data pipelines, backend programs, and integrations in Azure Government Cloud. Transform and cleanse data, evolve scripts and notebooks, manage relational databases, support data quality, document technical processes, and collaborate with engineers, geospatial experts, scientists, and government clients. The role also involves project coordination, status reporting, client travel, and compliance with government background and security requirements.

Designs, develops, maintains, and optimizes complex data systems, SQL/ETL processes, reporting solutions, and .NET applications supporting pharmacy benefit management. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, data warehousing, troubleshooting pharmacy claims, technical specification development, software testing, cloud integration, stakeholder collaboration, Agile participation, and mentoring. The role requires strong SQL Server, dimensional modeling, cloud database, Python, PowerShell, and healthcare data standards expertise.

Designs and optimizes scalable data platforms, architectures, and production pipelines supporting AI and machine learning. Responsibilities include Databricks Lakehouse development, batch and real-time processing, data governance, security, monitoring, performance tuning, infrastructure planning, and collaboration with DevOps, MLOps, and cross-functional teams. The role serves as the AI team’s data engineering subject matter expert and ensures reliable, secure, cost-effective data solutions.

Leads the architecture, development, and production operation of complex data pipelines and platforms. Resolves scalability, data quality, reliability, and architectural challenges; evaluates data technologies; mentors engineers; establishes engineering standards; partners with product, analytics, and operations teams; communicates technical trade-offs; and conducts proofs of concept to guide platform strategy.

Develop and maintain data pipelines, infrastructure, and integrations supporting analytics, data science, and business intelligence. Ensure data quality and integrity, optimize workflows, and collaborate with Operations, IT, Accounting, HR, Property Services, Marketing, and other departments. The role requires SQL Server, programming, shell scripting, cloud, containerization, version control, and data pipeline knowledge, with occasional travel and flexible scheduling as project deadlines require.

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Build and maintain secure data pipelines and integrations across business platforms, laboratory systems, analytical instruments, and messy data sources. Own schema design, orchestration, monitoring, quality controls, documentation, and compliant data isolation for export-controlled information. Create a unified lakehouse foundation supporting analytics, dashboards, machine learning, R&D, manufacturing, and operations. Partner with scientists and technical teams to integrate HPLC, GC, Invert Bio, APIs, spreadsheets, PDFs, and semi-structured records.

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, and processing systems for analytics and business intelligence. Ensure data quality, security, reliability, and cost efficiency while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers. Maintain technical documentation, support Databricks solutions, and apply emerging data engineering technologies. The role requires strong programming, SQL, ETL, orchestration, data modeling, cloud, and big data expertise.

Architects and leads enterprise data engineering platforms, including scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, and AI/ML data systems. Establishes engineering standards, governance, monitoring, data quality, security, and schema management practices. Designs AI agents using LLMs, partners across business and infrastructure teams, and makes high-impact architectural decisions for reliable, secure, multi-region data environments.

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 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.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines for mission partners. Uses AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions to integrate, migrate, transform, and validate data. Develops data models, schemas, queries, and production-ready datasets while collaborating with analytics and business teams. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, data governance, DevOps workflows, Databricks, and real-time streaming architectures.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Lead pre-sales data engineering engagements to design and implement scalable lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Advise customers on data strategy, governance, pipelines, AI-ready foundations, migrations, and translate technical solutions into business outcomes while supporting sales and partner enablement.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead architecture, development, and optimization of a cloud-native data platform. Design high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, optimize data processing across AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, and Athena, and implement Iceberg-based data management. Establish security, privacy, observability, and DataOps practices while mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, collaborating with data science teams, and delivering scalable petabyte-level data infrastructure.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AWS-based data and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI platforms. Develop data lake pipelines, observability systems, agent-enablement tooling, and production MLOps/LLMOps capabilities. Own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and design decisions, optimize reliability, scalability, security, and cost, and collaborate with AWS Professional Services, client teams, and junior engineers.

Build and operate production pipelines for legal records from PACER, court systems, opinions, PDFs, scans, XML, and HTML. Develop LLM-assisted extraction workflows, validate data quality, optimize SQL, and support RAG and semantic search products. Manage AWS S3 and RDS systems within security guardrails while collaborating with engineering teams. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, legal data experience, document extraction expertise, and autonomous problem-solving with large, messy datasets.