Top Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own and evolve the data platform: architect, build, and maintain data models, pipelines, and access layers. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability; monitor and optimize infrastructure; provide technical leadership, code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for operations and analytics.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and Python automations for ingesting, processing, and enriching data. Integrate SaaS sources via APIs, use Databricks/PySpark/Delta Lake and AI tools to power lead generation, enrichment, deduplication, and entity resolution. Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into automated, production-ready solutions.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of Pantheon’s data platform, extending ingestion, curation, retention services and ML/LLM infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive architecture and engineering standards, operate in a DevOps model, partner cross-functionally, and participate in on-call support to ensure reliable, compliant data access and analytics.

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.

Lead architecture, build, and operate Prodege's high-scale data platform including batch, ELT, and near-real-time streaming pipelines. Deliver Medallion-modeled data, governance, lineage, observability, and feature/ML data infrastructure. Drive platform standards, optimize performance and cost, and mentor teams while partnering with product, analytics, and ML groups to enable analytics, experimentation, and AI-driven applications.

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.

Design, build, and lead a scalable, configuration-driven data integration platform. Improve performance, automate monitoring and deployments, provide escalated support, and collaborate across product and engineering to deliver reliable, secure data integrations.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/data pipelines across distributed systems. Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and high availability. Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, perform root cause analysis, document systems, collaborate with global teams, and participate in on-call rotations to support production data systems.

Lead architecture and hands-on engineering to design, scale, and govern a cloud-native lakehouse using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Build batch/streaming pipelines, ensure HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, produce analytics-ready datasets, mentor engineers, and drive platform strategy, governance, and reliability.