Top Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The role involves architecting intelligence infrastructure, building data pipelines, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring data accessibility and security for threat detection systems.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

Build and maintain AWS-based ETL pipelines (Glue/PySpark, MWAA/Airflow, Lambda) to ingest and process terabytes of financial data into an S3 data lake using Iceberg/Parquet. Implement metadata, monitoring, tests (90% coverage), materialized views (Trino/Athena), CloudFormation deployments, documentation, and support agile delivery and operations for federal clients.

Design and build end-to-end geospatial data systems: ingest and process satellite imagery into columnar/chunked stores, expose results via GraphQL/REST and FastAPI, build Next.js/React dashboards, automate with IaC and CI/CD, orchestrate pipelines with Prefect, optimize petabyte-scale I/O, and lead hiring, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Build and maintain data marts, materialized views, and pipelines in an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL environment. Integrate data with downstream BI platforms (MicroStrategy), design/optimize workflows for analytics and reporting, monitor pipeline health and data quality, and support federal data security compliance (FISMA/NIST 800-53). Collaborate with engineering and product teams to enable data-driven features.

Design, develop, and manage data infrastructure for internal and client projects, focusing on large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and cloud deployments.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data ingestion pipelines, develop data transformations, and migrate SQL Server processes to Azure-native solutions, supporting marketing campaigns and analytics teams.

The Senior Data Engineer will maintain and improve data infrastructure, design ETL processes, and create high-performance pipelines for analytics and AI initiatives using SQL and Python in cloud environments.

Design, build, and maintain Databricks-based data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using Python and SQL. Optimize workflows for performance and cost, support data modeling and cloud integrations (Azure/AWS/GCP), monitor and troubleshoot pipelines, document best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and models; collaborate with analysts and data scientists to provision prepared datasets; implement data quality, governance and monitoring; recommend technologies; lead root-cause analysis, code reviews and testing; mentor teammates and support production data environments.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines. Partner with Product, Sales Ops, and Finance to deliver analytics and self-service tooling. Maintain SLOs, improve pipeline reliability, implement testing and documentation, and contribute to data platform strategy and operations.

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.

The Senior Data Engineer will develop data engineering solutions, manage ETL workflows, and establish a new data practice while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Lead Data Platform Engineer will design and build Virtuous's data platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and AI-ready. Responsibilities include architecting access controls, optimizing performance, and enabling self-service analytics while maintaining governance and compliance standards.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and scale cloud-based data platforms, ensuring quality and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable data solutions.

Lead design, build, and support of cloud-based ETL, data warehousing, and reporting solutions. Develop/optimize ETL pipelines, data models, and queries; deploy containerized services on Kubernetes; automate workflows; mentor teammates; collaborate with architects, data scientists, and stakeholders to deliver scalable analytics and reporting products.

Lead the data engineering team to design and maintain data pipelines, evaluate technologies, mentor juniors, and ensure system performance and reliability.

The Data Architect will design scalable data models, transform raw data into actionable insights, and deploy analytics solutions for healthcare providers, with a strong emphasis on SQL proficiency and cloud technologies.

Design and deliver scalable, reliable data services and microservices for real-time and batch processing. Build REST APIs, model data across SQL/NoSQL stores, drive data quality, own deployment/monitoring/incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers.

Design and scale data infrastructure, ensure data quality and governance, collaborate with teams on data products, and modernize practices.

Lead design, build, and optimization of Sezzle's large-scale data warehousing and pipelines. Own data infrastructure KPIs/SLAs, improve Redshift performance, evolve the data stack, implement ETL/ELT workflows, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable datasets.

Design and maintain data systems for business-critical insights, connect data across platforms, build ETLs, and support business data decisions.

The Senior Data Analytics Engineer will develop data pipelines, support data-driven decision-making, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve data quality and processes.

The Data Engineer builds and maintains data infrastructure, develops data pipelines, ensures data quality, and collaborates with teams for insights.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and maintain scalable data pipelines, focusing on architecture, ingestion, storage, and analytics on GCP. You'll collaborate with stakeholders and optimize data structures for performance while ensuring adherence to data governance and compliance standards.