Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, develop, and maintain PySpark applications and ETL pipelines to process, transform, and integrate large-scale datasets from SQL, NoSQL, data lakes, and streaming sources. Optimize Spark job performance, implement robust error handling, and collaborate with data analysts, scientists, and architects using orchestration tools like Airflow or Luigi.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

Own the 2-3 year architecture and reliability of high-volume catalog, pricing, and inventory ingestion. Lead migrations from legacy batch to modern systems, define data SLAs, build observability and orchestration, mentor senior engineers, and resolve cross-team, high-severity data problems.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data systems and ETLs on GCP; connect production data to business systems; generate analytics and ML-driven insights for GTM teams; work cross-functionally and introduce modern tools (Airflow, DBT, Presto, Hightouch).

Design and implement BI solutions: build data models, automations, ETL/ELT workflows, dashboards, and ad-hoc analyses. Monitor and analyze RF/video performance using Dataminer/Qligent or similar tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, document requirements, and deliver actionable insights to optimize hybrid terrestrial and satellite video delivery.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, improve data modeling and governance, contribute to enterprise data architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, high-quality data for analytics and operational use.

Design, build, and own end-to-end ingestion pipelines and dbt transformation layers on Databricks. Lead GCP->AWS/Databricks migration, validate parity, and decommission legacy systems. Implement CDC and batch patterns, ensure data quality and observability, document assets in Unity Catalog, and build reverse ETL integrations to operational systems. Partner with business stakeholders and write architectural decision records to define engineering patterns and acceptance criteria.

Work directly with customers to design, build, and maintain data integrations and pipelines, troubleshoot ingestion/transformation/delivery issues, optimize large-scale data processing, collaborate with data scientists, and guide technical onboarding and long-term success.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and foundations for People Analytics and AI-driven tools. Integrate HR systems (Workday, Greenhouse), design data models, ensure governance for sensitive employee data, support data science and reporting, and deliver dashboards and Streamlit apps. Optimize queries, enable LLM consumption with quality and latency controls, and collaborate cross-functionally to transition AI prototypes to production.

Maintain and build data products, pipelines, and automation to support care management and clinical programs. Integrate multiple data sources into single sources of truth, perform root cause analysis, and serve as a subject-matter expert for partner teams to drive clinical, operational, and financial insights.

The Senior Data Engineer will design scalable data processing frameworks using Java and Apache Spark, manage data pipelines, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Data Engineering Architect, lead the transformation of data engineering into a modern platform, oversee architecture and technical leadership, design scalable systems, ensure data quality and governance, and mentor teams for a data-driven culture.

Design and execute SQL-based ETL processes to migrate legacy public safety data into Mark43. Collaborate with customers, contractors, and internal teams to map legacy schemas, handle edge cases, ensure data fidelity, and improve migration tooling while managing timelines and stakeholder relationships.

Design, build, and maintain an internal data platform enabling secure, governed access for engineering and analytics. Partner with architects, implement data pipelines and automations, enforce security and compliance, support platform services, recommend architecture improvements, mentor teams, and drive adoption of scalable, self-service data capabilities.

As an Associate Engineer in Data Science, you will leverage data analysis and machine learning to solve complex problems and develop inspiring digital products.

Nagarro seeks an Associate Principal Engineer in Big Data to leverage extensive IT experience for strategic organizational value. The role values self-starters and innovation.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Build and maintain BI dashboards and reports, optimize and write advanced SQL for large datasets, create analytical database objects and data models, validate data accuracy, document metric logic, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant reporting solutions.

Lead a team of data engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, a Data Vault, data warehouses and marts. Own backlog, sprint planning, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, data validation/monitoring, and platform improvements to deliver key metrics and data infrastructure across the business.

Design, deploy, and maintain scalable data infrastructure and orchestration for analytics and ML; write optimized SQL over large warehouses; partner with engineering and product to structure source systems; maintain CDC pipelines; scale reporting and expose analytical datasets enterprise-wide while ensuring data management, security, and compliance.

Design and own end-to-end data platform architecture, build ingestion and transformation pipelines, model multi-tenant datasets, optimize Postgres and ClickHouse performance/cost, implement orchestration and observability, define data quality and reconciliation standards, and mentor data/product engineers.

Design, implement, and manage scalable multi-cloud data platforms and ELT pipelines (AWS/Azure). Build and optimize Snowflake data models, dbt transformations, and Airflow orchestration. Define data engineering standards, enforce governance and quality, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor global/offshore teams.

Build and maintain automated ETL/ELT data pipelines, improve data quality and monitoring, optimize Postgres and BigQuery schemas and queries, develop internal tooling, support data governance (HIPAA), participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering teams to scale data systems.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, enhance the data warehouse, support machine learning applications, and collaborate with various teams to leverage data effectively.

The Senior Data Engineer will build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and collaborate on machine learning workflows, driving data engineering best practices.