Top Data Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

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Remote
San Diego, CA
110K-140K Annually
Mid level
110K-140K Annually
Mid level
Information Technology
Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS-native data platforms and ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Python, dbt, and SQL. Implement ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and analytics solutions (Iceberg, Parquet, Redshift, Athena), support FedRAMP/NIST controls, migrate legacy systems to cloud-native services, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating in Agile teams.
Top Skills: Amazon AthenaAmazon BedrockAmazon CloudwatchAmazon EmrAmazon MwaaAmazon RdsAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Apache AirflowApache IcebergSparkAvroAws DmsAws GlueAws LambdaAws Step FunctionsCi/CdCloudFormationDatabricksDbtEventbridgeGitGraphdbHarnessHiveJavaNoSQLOpensearchOracleOrcParquetPostgresPysparkPythonSnsSQLSqsTrino
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Information Technology • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end batch and streaming data pipelines; develop ETL/ELT workflows and modular Python code; write and optimize SQL; implement analytics data models; monitor data quality, troubleshoot failures, and document pipelines; collaborate with stakeholders and mentor teammates. Remote role for candidates based in Latin America.
Top Skills: AzureData LakeDatabricksGitKubernetesOrcParquetPythonSQL
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Entry level
Entry level
Consulting
The DMS Data Engineer is responsible for analyzing raw data, building data systems and pipelines, conducting complex data analyses, and collaborating on projects to enhance data quality and reliability.
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Security
Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and Lakehouse solutions; ingest and transform diverse data formats; optimize Databricks and SQL Server environments; implement data quality, lineage, and governance; support batch and streaming ingestion; collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to enable analytics (fraud/anomaly detection, financial oversight); troubleshoot and improve pipelines. Candidates must be willing to undergo a U.S. government background investigation.
Top Skills: Batch Ingestion FrameworksDatabricksDatabricks Unity CatalogEltETLGraph DatabasesJSONLakehouseExcelPythonRest ApisSQLSql Server Managed InstanceStreaming Ingestion FrameworksXML
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Information Technology • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence
Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and Python transformations. Writes optimized SQL, monitors pipeline reliability, troubleshoots failures, implements data-quality validation, and supports security and governance practices. Collaborates with engineers, analysts, stakeholders, and clients to define data contracts, improve platforms, document lineage, and deliver reliable analytics data.
Top Skills: BigQueryGCPPythonSQL
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In-Office
San Diego, CA
95K-161K Annually
Mid level
95K-161K Annually
Mid level
Insurance
Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, data warehouses/lakes, and ETL/ELT processes. Collaborates with BI, Data Science, and Architecture teams to model data, validate sources, ensure data quality, optimize performance, and enable analytics using cloud and big-data technologies (AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka).
Top Skills: AlteryxAPIsAWSDatabricksDynamoDBEc2EmrGlueHadoopInformaticaKafkaKafka StreamingKinesisLambdaMs-SqlPostgresProfiseePythonRedshiftS3ScalaSnowflakeSparkSpark StreamingSsisTalend
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Internship
Internship
Consumer Web • Digital Media • eCommerce • News + Entertainment
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.
Top Skills: APIsBigQueryEltETLGCPPostgresPythonSnowflakeSQL
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In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
168K-297K Annually
Senior level
168K-297K Annually
Senior level
Blockchain • eCommerce • Fintech • Payments • Software • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
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.
Top Skills: AirflowDatabricksDbtGitOmniPrefectPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform
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In-Office
San Diego, CA
30-30 Hourly
Entry level
30-30 Hourly
Entry level
Fintech
Entry-level rotational Data Engineer role focused on SQL Server development, SSIS package creation, data validation, ETL, performance tuning, and cross-platform integrations (Salesforce, Marketing Cloud). Participate in SDLC, code reviews, data profiling, reporting, and stakeholder meetings with the goal of permanent placement after rotations.
Top Skills: ApexAssignment RulesFlowsLightning Web ComponentsSalesforceSalesforce Marketing CloudSQLSQL ServerSsis
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Remote
San Diego, CA
130K-150K Annually
Mid level
130K-150K Annually
Mid level
Edtech • Software
Designs and optimizes ETL pipelines supporting analytics, data science, and machine learning. Builds labeling, retraining, MLOps, model monitoring, and production inference workflows. Contributes to lakehouse architecture, data modeling, governance, lineage, and quality. Uses infrastructure as code and containerization to create reproducible environments, collaborates with data scientists and BI teams, participates in code reviews, and improves engineering practices.
Top Skills: Apache AirflowAws CloudwatchAws EcsAws LambdaAws S3Ci/CdData LakehouseDatabricksDbtDockerInfrastructure As CodeMlopsPandasPysparkPythonSQLTerraform
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Business Intelligence
Design, build, maintain, and optimize Spark and Scala ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS for terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets. Work across S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and monitoring systems, resolve production data-quality and performance issues, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, and support on-call operations. Use generative AI to improve pipeline development, monitoring, and engineering productivity.
Top Skills: Amazon S3SparkAws EmrAws LambdaDockerElastic StackGen AiGrafanaHadoopKafkaScalaSnowflake
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Healthtech
Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, schemas, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and related healthcare data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders. Collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions and improve infrastructure, processes, and analytics capabilities.
Top Skills: AWSAzureExcelGCPPandasPower BIPythonRSQLTableau
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Mid level
Mid level
Information Technology • Professional Services
Build and scale the data backbone for HR, payroll, finance, and insurance products. Design data models across warehouses and data lakes, develop and optimize batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines, improve data quality and governance, tune SQL queries, address data integration gaps, and collaborate with engineering, BI, analytics, and business stakeholders.
Top Skills: AWSBigQueryData LakesData VaultData WarehousingEltETLLookerMaster Data ManagementPythonSnowflakeSQLSupersetTwo-Factor Authentication
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Remote
San Diego, CA
75K-129K Annually
Mid level
75K-129K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Edtech • Information Technology • Biotech
Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and cloud infrastructure supporting an AI biomedical research platform. Responsibilities include ingesting, harmonizing, validating, and documenting multimodal neurodegeneration datasets; managing cloud storage, compute, permissions, and costs; implementing de-identification and data governance workflows; supporting research data repositories and AI/ML teams; and maintaining data lineage, catalogs, and technical documentation. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, software engineering discipline, cloud experience, and neurodegeneration research data expertise.
Top Skills: Ad WorkbenchAddiAdniAmazon NeptuneApache AirflowSparkApache SynapseAWSAzure Data FactoryDbtDspyGCPGitGp2Knowledge GraphsLanggraphLlmsAzureNaccNeo4JNiagadsNlpPythonRagSQLSynapseTerra
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Junior
Junior
Healthtech
Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines, databases, and data models to process healthcare claims and related data. Ensure data quality, analyze claims data for trends, and produce reports and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders. Collaborate with policy and analytics teams to translate requirements into data solutions and improve data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.
Top Skills: AWSAzureExcelGCPPandasPower BIPythonRSQLTableau
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In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
Financial Services
Designs, develops, optimizes, and maintains enterprise data platforms, databases, ETL workflows, reporting solutions, and business intelligence systems. Leads technical design, SDLC processes, production troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder collaboration, and automation efforts. Requires advanced Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and SSIS expertise, plus experience with data warehousing, BI, dashboards, and Microsoft DevOps. Cloud data services, APIs, Microsoft BI tools, and Python or Java are preferred or advantageous.
Top Skills: APIsAzure Data FactoryDatabricksJavaMicrosoft DevopsMicrosoft FabricMicrosoft Sql ServerPower BIPythonSnowflakeSsasSsisSsrsT-Sql
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In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
Designs, develops, and optimizes enterprise data platforms, databases, ETL workflows, data integrations, reporting, and business intelligence solutions. Leads technical designs, automated process improvements, production troubleshooting, documentation, and dashboard development. Collaborates with stakeholders and vendors, supports scalability and cloud migration, and participates in an off-hours support rotation. Requires advanced SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL, SDLC, and data engineering expertise.
Top Skills: APIsAzure Data FactoryDatabricksJavaMicrosoft DevopsMicrosoft FabricMicrosoft Sql ServerPower BIPythonSnowflakeSsasSsisSsrsT-Sql
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Remote
San Diego, CA
150K-180K Annually
Expert/Leader
150K-180K Annually
Expert/Leader
Big Data • Cloud • Hardware • Software • App development
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.
Top Skills: Apache AirflowAWSAws RedshiftAws SagemakerAzureAzure AiAzure Data FactoryAzure SynapseCi/CdClaudeCopilotData LineageData ObservabilityDatabricksDatabricks LakeflowDatabricks Mosaic AiDbtDelta LakeDevOpsEvent HubsGleanGoogle BigqueryGCPGoogle Vertex AiInfrastructure As CodeKafkaLakehouse ArchitectureMetadata ManagementNvidia NimPythonSnowflakeSnowflake CortexSnowflake Cortex CodeSnowflake Dynamic TablesSnowflake Streams & TasksSnowparkSQLUnity Catalog
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Remote
San Diego, CA
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
Hospitality
Build and maintain scalable data platforms, pipelines, observability metrics, metadata-driven solutions, data transformations, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders to deliver timely, accurate data and meaningful insights. Responsibilities include optimizing transformations, implementing infrastructure as code, and administering or tuning Snowflake environments.
Top Skills: AWSAzureData ObservabilityData PipelinesDevOpsEltETLGCPInfrastructure As CodePythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform
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Remote
San Diego, CA
Internship
Internship
Information Technology • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence
Participate in an internship focused on database modeling and optimization, data analysis and consolidation, data quality, and data support. Work alongside experienced professionals on real-world projects while developing technical and professional skills. The program requires prior knowledge of data concepts, spreadsheets, databases, programming logic, and analytical problem-solving.
Top Skills: DatabasesSpreadsheets
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Remote
San Diego, CA
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
Transportation
Build and maintain scalable data platforms, pipelines, observability metrics, metadata-driven solutions, data transformations, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver accurate, timely data and meaningful insights. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, implementing infrastructure as code, and supporting cloud-based data systems.
Top Skills: AWSAzureEltETLGCPInfrastructure As CodePythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform
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Remote
San Diego, CA
380K-610K Annually
Senior level
380K-610K Annually
Senior level
News + Entertainment
Build and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, model data to power analytics and ML, and operate distributed data systems. Collaborate with business, engineering, and data science teams to ensure data quality, documentation, and debugging while adopting new technologies and working in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.
Top Skills: FlinkJavaPythonScalaSparkSQL
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Remote
San Diego, CA
170K-720K Annually
Senior level
170K-720K Annually
Senior level
News + Entertainment
Build and maintain low-latency, highly available distributed data systems and services to deliver high-quality data for product, analytics, and ML. Partner with data scientists and product teams to design scalable, observable, multi-tenant data products using batch and real-time processing frameworks. Ensure 24x7 reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence while owning end-to-end delivery.
Top Skills: FlinkGrpcJavaScalaSparkSpringSQL
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Remote
San Diego, CA
380K-610K Annually
Senior level
380K-610K Annually
Senior level
News + Entertainment
Design, build, and own large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and core Ads data products. Collaborate with analytics, data science, and engineering teams to model, transform, govern, and deliver high-quality ad datasets for analysis, ML, and reporting while ensuring privacy compliance.
Top Skills: APIsData ModelingData WarehousingFlinkHadoopHiveJavaPrestoPythonScalaSparkSQLStream Processing
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Remote
San Diego, CA
170K-720K Annually
Expert/Leader
170K-720K Annually
Expert/Leader
News + Entertainment
Build scalable, privacy-focused data frameworks and ETL pipelines using big-data technologies (Spark, Presto, Flink, Kafka, Hive). Ensure appropriate handling of personal data, support privacy and legal needs, partner cross-functionally, and lead system design while mentoring teammates.
Top Skills: FlinkHiveJavaKafkaPrestoPythonScalaSparkSQL
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