Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

Architect, deploy, secure, automate, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments for mission-critical streaming workloads. Responsibilities include cluster sizing, configuration, observability, high availability and disaster recovery, developer enablement, troubleshooting, infrastructure as code, and collaboration with application teams. The role also involves design and code reviews, documentation, communication, and mentoring junior engineers.

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.

Designs and governs data architecture for internal applications and business intelligence systems. Owns database architecture, data modeling, warehouse migration, schema standards, and operational versus analytical workload separation. Builds and monitors batch and event-driven pipelines using SQL, PostgreSQL, and Python; supports ETL/ELT across varied sources. Advises technology teams on data-platform decisions, reporting, performance, security, recovery, and architectural tradeoffs. The role is onsite in Sacramento and requires substantial production database and pipeline experience.

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.

Lead data modeling and ownership of critical pipelines supporting Block’s product data foundation. Build reliable, governed, and monitored datasets, data quality and lineage systems, experimentation infrastructure, and AI-assisted automation. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into end-to-end data solutions, participate in on-call support, and maintain pipeline SLAs.

Build and optimize data models, pipelines, monitoring, lineage, and data quality systems supporting Block’s product data foundation. Own critical data engineering solutions across their full lifecycle, ensure pipeline reliability through on-call support, and translate business and product needs into automated data solutions. Develop AI-assisted workflows and agents for data quality, issue resolution, and operational efficiency while partnering with engineering, product, data science, and machine learning teams.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Develop and optimize enterprise Oracle SQL and PL/SQL solutions, including data models, database designs, APIs, ETL processes, batch jobs, and performance tuning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable implementations, support testing and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and document solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, and drive engineering best practices across data modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and backend data services using Go. Integrate relational, NoSQL, blockchain, API, web, and social data sources; develop NLP pipelines for text extraction and classification; and support production APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence systems. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and investigations teams on architecture, data quality, lineage, validation, monitoring, and client-facing products.

Leads data engineering and data science teams, setting strategy and delivering scalable pipelines, data architecture, models, analytics infrastructure, and data governance. Partners with product, analytics, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, assess upstream changes, maintain data quality, and support Snowflake-based warehousing. This hands-on leadership role includes mentoring staff, contributing to technical codebases, and advancing data science and engineering solutions.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, Kafka, and GCP. Develop REST and GraphQL data services, CI/CD automation, observability, and data-quality frameworks. Integrate ML and NLP models into production workflows, including continuous retraining and real-time inference. Support structured and unstructured healthcare datasets, distributed systems, microservices, and reliable data infrastructure while collaborating with data science and MLOps teams.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion and integration pipelines from enterprise and legacy systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata management, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and SOPs to support long-term sustainment.

Lead the design and optimization of healthcare data pipelines integrating EHR, payer, HIE, and vendor data. Build AWS-based ETL/ELT infrastructure, reusable integration tooling, data quality monitoring, and ML enablement foundations. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of clinical data, including security controls, audit logging, encryption, and de-identification. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence platform architecture, and lead complex partner integrations involving FHIR, HL7v2, CCDA, and healthcare terminology standards.

Design and lead scalable, secure, highly available database infrastructure for multi-terabyte SQL Server environments. Set technical direction for data architecture, performance, real-time pipelines, security, and growth. Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize queries and indexes, guide cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, review changes, reduce technical debt, and evaluate emerging technologies. Monitor database health using Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana while influencing engineering and Site Reliability strategy.