Top Data Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

One Month AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
San Diego, CA
165K-235K Annually
Senior level
165K-235K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Productivity • Software • Database • Analytics • Automation
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.
Top Skills: Amazon AuroraAmazon RdsApache AirflowSparkBigQueryCdcClickhouseCloud Object StorageDatabricksDelta LakeIamOpenmetadataPostgresSnowflakeUnity Catalog
4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
134K-175K Annually
Senior level
134K-175K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
Build and operate scalable batch, streaming, and event-driven data pipelines, cloud data platforms, trusted data products, and analytical models. Improve data quality, observability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while supporting risk, finance, product, analytics, and AI initiatives. Partner cross-functionally, influence architecture, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish strong engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, governance, and infrastructure automation.
Top Skills: Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaAWSAzureAzure Event HubsBigQueryCi/CdDagsterDatabricksDbtGitGoogle Cloud PlatformInfrastructure As CodeMicrosoft FabricPythonSnowflakeSpark Structured StreamingSQL
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In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
47K-122K Hourly
Senior level
47K-122K Hourly
Senior level
Healthtech
Designs and advances Providence’s enterprise data platform through data architecture, governance, metadata management, Snowflake modernization, legacy migrations, and scalable integration patterns. Establishes engineering, DataOps, CI/CD, repository, and data quality standards while supporting analytics, reporting, AI, and data products. Collaborates across multidisciplinary teams to implement large-scale data initiatives in a healthcare environment.
Top Skills: APIsAzure DevopsC#CdcCi/CdGitJavaJIRANoSQLPythonSnowflakeSQLTfs
4 Days AgoSaved
Remote or Hybrid
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Database • Consulting
Lead data engineering strategy and develop enterprise data lake solutions on AWS. Build data pipelines using AWS data integration, engineering, and analytics resources, develop API services with FastAPI or Flask, optimize engineering practices, create long-term data plans, and represent the team in executive meetings.
Top Skills: AWSFastapiFlaskPysparkPython
4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Automation
Build and own scalable data architecture, canonical data models, configurable source integrations, and reliable pipelines for AI-driven financial intelligence. Use SQL, Python, dbt, cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools to deliver idempotent, auditable data workflows. Establish lineage, data contracts, quality controls, and schema evolution practices. Lead architecture reviews, mentor distributed data engineers, and support customer-hosted multi-cloud deployments with strict tenant isolation and traceability.
Top Skills: AirflowAWSAzureBigQueryDagsterDbtDockerGCPGreat ExpectationsLlmsMachine LearningOpenlineagePostgresPrefectPythonSnowflakeSQL
4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Healthtech • Insurance • Mobile
Build and maintain dbt and semantic data models in Snowflake, develop ingestion and transformation pipelines, define trusted product metrics, and improve data collection. Partner with Product and Engineering to support experimentation and feature analysis. Establish data quality testing, documentation, HIPAA-aware access controls, and compliance practices. Use and validate AI-generated code and Snowflake Cortex outputs while raising technical standards across the team.
Top Skills: ClaudeCowork AgentsDbtFivetranPythonSnowflakeSnowflake CortexSQLTableau
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Remote
San Diego, CA
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
Machine Learning • Software
Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.
Top Skills: AirflowBigQueryCubeDatabricksDatabricks Unity CatalogDaxDbtExcelGitLlmsLookerLookmlMetricflowPower BIPythonRedshiftSharepointSnowflakeSpark SqlSQLTableau
Reposted 5 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
180K-220K Annually
Senior level
180K-220K Annually
Senior level
Machine Learning • Software
Design, build, and operate production data pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow. Canonicalize healthcare and customer data into trusted internal models, optimize distributed processing, enforce schemas, and implement quality checks and observability. Support customer onboarding, streaming pipelines, troubleshooting, on-call operations, and platform best practices while collaborating with product, analytics, engineering, data science, and customer teams.
Top Skills: Amazon SqsApache AirflowAWSCsvJSONKafkaParquetPythonSpark Sql
Reposted 5 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
180K-220K Annually
Senior level
180K-220K Annually
Senior level
Machine Learning • Software
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.
Top Skills: Apache AirflowSparkAws S3ClaudeCursorGithub CopilotPythonSQLSQL ServerSsisT-Sql
28 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
35K-123K Annually
Senior level
35K-123K Annually
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology
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.
Top Skills: Acceptance Test Driven DevelopmentAgileAmazon S3Automated TestingAutosysCi/CdCloud Data PlatformsContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationDistributed SystemsETLInformaticaJavaMessaging TechnologiesOracle Pl/SqlOracle SqlScrumSnowflakeTest-Driven DevelopmentWeb/Application Servers
29 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
75K-80K Annually
Entry level
75K-80K Annually
Entry level
Healthtech
Build and maintain full-stack data engineering solutions supporting BioIntelliSense’s remote patient monitoring and clinical intelligence platform. The role likely involves processing health-monitoring data, enabling analytics, and supporting reporting for clinicians, patients, and employers. Specific responsibilities and qualifications are not provided in the description.
15 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
San Diego, CA
117K-201K Annually
Senior level
117K-201K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Biotech • Pharmaceutical • Manufacturing
Leads the design and lifecycle management of Oncology R&D data products, including data modeling, architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data integration, quality controls, governance, and AI-ready datasets. Partners with scientific, clinical, data science, and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions across clinical, preclinical, real-world, genomic, and omics data. Supports advanced analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases while ensuring interoperability, reliability, compliance, and operational performance.
Top Skills: Amazon FsxAmazon RedshiftAWSAws GlueAws LambdaCdiscDicomFhirGenaiHl7Knowledge GraphsMlopsNoSQLOmopPythonRSnomed CtSQL
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29 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Software • Analytics
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.
Top Skills: Amazon SqsAWSBlockchain IndexersBlockchain NodesCi/CdDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBEtl/EltGitGoGrpcKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBNlpPostgresRabbitMQRedisRest ApisTerraform
One Month AgoSaved
Hybrid
San Diego, CA
101K-160K Annually
Mid level
101K-160K Annually
Mid level
Legal Tech
Design, build, and operate Azure-based data pipelines and integrations. Consolidate data from multiple sources into centralized SQL systems, perform transformations and field mapping, and maintain data warehouse capabilities. Troubleshoot quality, integrity, latency, security, and reliability issues while applying governance, monitoring, and SLA practices. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders in Agile pods to deliver reusable, analytics-ready data assets.
Top Skills: Azure Data FactoryAzure DatabricksAzure Event HubsAzure Synapse AnalyticsGoJavaPowershellPythonScalaSQLSQL ServerSsis
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Entry level
Entry level
Information Technology • Software • Consulting
Design and deliver cloud-native data platforms, scalable big data pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses, transformation frameworks, BI solutions, and ML-enabled data workflows. Lead client-facing pre-sales engagements, technical workshops, proof-of-concepts, executive conversations, and enterprise data modernization initiatives. Build reusable architectural IP, influence senior stakeholders, and translate ambiguous business challenges into production-ready solutions using AWS and modern data technologies.
Top Skills: Amazon AthenaAmazon BedrockAmazon EmrAmazon KinesisAmazon QuicksightAmazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache HadoopApache HudiApache IcebergApache KafkaAWSAws GlueAws Lake FormationCi/CdCollibraDatabricksDbtDelta LakeGitGlue CatalogHdfsHiveLookerMlflowPower BIPysparkPythonSagemakerScalaSnowflakeSparkSQLTableauUnity CatalogWeights & BiasesYarn
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
42K-147K Annually
Senior level
42K-147K Annually
Senior level
Agency • Information Technology
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.
Top Skills: Argo CdBigQueryCloud FunctionsCloud SpannerCloud StorageComposerDataflowGithub ActionsGkeGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGrpcJavaKafkaKubeflowKubernetesLangchainPostgresPub/SubPythonRestSQLTensorflow ServingTransformersVertex Ai
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
112K-179K Annually
Senior level
112K-179K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity • Defense
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.
Top Skills: AirflowAWSAzureCi/CdDatabricksDatabricks WorkflowsDelta LakeGitInfrastructure As CodeMlflowPysparkPythonSpark SqlUnity Catalog
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
124K-229K Annually
Senior level
124K-229K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Social Impact
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.
Top Skills: Amazon RedshiftAthenahealthAWSAws Step FunctionsCcdaCernerDbtDockerElixirEpicFhir R4Hl7V2Icd-10KubernetesLoincPostgresPythonPyTorchRabbitMQRestRxnormSnomed CtTensorFlow
Reposted 17 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
San Diego, CA
124K-190K Annually
Senior level
124K-190K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Real Estate • Analytics
Design, build, and maintain scalable data platforms and ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks/Spark and AWS. Develop backend data services in C#/.NET, ensure data quality and performance, leverage AI-assisted coding tools, collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead technical design decisions, and mentor engineers.
Top Skills: .NetSparkAWSC#Ci/CdClaude CodeDatabricksDevOpsEtl/EltKafkaKinesisSQL
8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
AdTech • Fintech • Gaming • Mobile • Software • App development
Architect, build, and operate scalable data platforms processing billions of daily events through real-time and batch pipelines. Own production reliability, data quality, security, observability, and performance while partnering with engineering, analytics, data science, growth, and business teams. Develop frameworks and datasets, make architectural decisions, evaluate technologies, mentor engineers, and help define the platform roadmap.
Top Skills: AWSEtl/EltJavaKafkaPythonScalaSparkSQLTerraform
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Junior
Junior
Insurance
Develop and maintain data engineering solutions using Informatica Data Management Cloud, Control-M, Snowflake, and SQL. Responsibilities include sourcing, transforming, cleansing, ingesting, analyzing, and visualizing data; building automated workflows and scalable ETL processes; supporting data architecture and deployments; and delivering reusable code for large datasets. The role requires collaboration with technical and business partners, troubleshooting, mentoring, and managing multiple priorities.
Top Skills: Control-METLInformaticaInformatica Data Management CloudOracleSnowflakeSQLSQL Server
8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
87K-97K Annually
Junior
87K-97K Annually
Junior
Healthtech • Software
Build and maintain marketing data pipelines connecting Salesforce, Marketo, and cloud data warehouses. Automate campaign reporting, develop SQL datasets and views, improve attribution and data quality, support CRM and marketing automation configuration, and document data models and processes. Use AI tools such as Claude to accelerate analytics workflows while ensuring reporting accuracy. Partner with Marketing Analytics, Demand Generation, and Marketing Operations to support executive-level pipeline reporting.
Top Skills: AirflowAPIsBigQueryClaudeDbtFivetranLookerMarketoPower BIPythonRedshiftSalesforceSnowflakeSOQLSQLTableau
One Month AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
Software
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.
Top Skills: AgileAmazon AuroraAws RdsCassandraCi/CdDatadogDevOpsDynamoDBGrafanaMicrosoft Sql ServerMongoDBMongodb AtlasSplunkT-Sql
8 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Software
Build and operate a large-scale enterprise data platform spanning batch and streaming processing, lakehouse storage, Kafka infrastructure, APIs, observability, and agentic MCP interfaces. Develop reusable ingestion and data-quality frameworks, improve scalability and resilience, establish engineering practices, support production operations, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep ownership of distributed data infrastructure and practical use of AI coding agents.
Top Skills: Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache IcebergApache KafkaSparkCi/CdClaude CodeGithub CopilotInfrastructure As CodeModel Context Protocol (Mcp)NessieStarrocksTrino
8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
San Diego, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software
Design and operate production-grade data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and agentic AI workflows. Build scalable systems that ingest, transform, and operationalize data for customer-facing and internal applications. Translate ambiguous operational workflows into reliable architectures, improve service observability and performance, and own technical decisions across data modeling, system design, security, and compliance.
Top Skills: Agentic AiAPIsEtl/EltPythonTypescript
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