Top Data Engineer Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build scalable data platforms, handle automation for data operations, and ensure reliability and performance of data pipelines while collaborating with various teams.

Lead a team to design, build, and maintain cloud data engineering solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse. Responsibilities include architecture, data pipelines, lakehouse and warehousing implementation, governance, performance optimization, mentoring engineers, cross-functional collaboration, support/on-call, documentation, and ensuring reliability and compliance.

Lead the vision and execution for scalable data governance and quality across Airbnb. Architect future-proof data ecosystems, define best practices and tooling, drive cross-functional policy implementation (privacy, legal, infosec), mentor senior engineers, and influence executive strategy to embed stewardship into the data product lifecycle.

Build end-to-end data and analytics features: ingest and model data, build transformations and pipelines, create client-facing dashboards and interfaces, and develop LLM-powered workflows to accelerate analysis and app development. Partner with stakeholders, perform exploratory analyses, and ensure data quality, observability, and maintainability while influencing data engineering strategy.

Lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance. Ensure security and compliance, mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD and IaC for data workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed data pipelines and a secure data lakehouse for streaming and batch processing to support real-time analytics, ML, and experimentation. Automate, test, and harden workflows, architect logical and physical data models, build ML model features, and collaborate with product, analytics, and data science teams to turn data into value.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines, model and test core warehouse data, enable analytics and reporting, and maintain ML data infrastructure feeding matching and recommendation models. Partner with Engineering, Product, and Data Science to ensure reliable, documented, and trusted data at scale.