Top Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, develop, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable data solutions using Snowflake and Databricks. Lead technical design, author specifications, review code, mentor engineers, ensure SDLC, audit/security compliance, and drive technical strategy while collaborating with architects and business partners. Participate in Agile ceremonies, be on-call as needed, and travel occasionally.

Build and maintain production-grade data processing systems and foundational infrastructure for enterprise AI. Collaborate with researchers and engineers, deliver end-to-end implementations, transform unstructured data into performant datasets, and use distributed processing frameworks and modern analytics tooling to inform products and strategy.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead data architecture initiatives, design scalable data systems, and oversee data standards across teams while ensuring high-quality data infrastructure and guiding engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain an internal data platform and pipelines. Ensure secure, governed, resilient data access for engineering and BI teams. Partner with architects, implement automations, support platform consumption, mentor users, and drive continuous improvement and compliance.

Own product telemetry, maintain dbt models in Snowflake, support self-service reporting and NLP queries, drive product insights from user and retention data, and monitor Airbyte syncs to ensure data quality.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines to turn messy insurance data into clean datasets. Design bronze/silver/fact layers, model and tune Postgres and analytical stores, define KPIs and reconciliation checks, orchestrate observable data jobs, and ensure end-to-end data quality for analytics and AI products.

Build and maintain data marts, materialized views, and ETL/ELT pipelines in an AWS-hosted data lake. Design and optimize data workflows, monitor infrastructure health and data quality, support PostgreSQL migrations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure compliance with federal data security (FISMA/NIST 800-53).

Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, convert data into metrics, and operate the platform on AWS. Responsibilities include writing production code, processing data from APIs, and enhancing the orchestration layer using Dagster, while ensuring compliance in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, ensure data quality, support ML workflows, and optimize query performance using various technologies.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing data workflows and pipelines, implementing systems engineering principles, and deploying data streaming technologies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Forward-deployed senior data engineer who deploys, hardens, integrates, and operates a data platform (lakehouse, streaming, governance) in DoD environments. Build pipelines across classification boundaries, produce accreditation evidence (STIG/cATO/FIPS), run day-2 operations, train mission teams, and mentor junior FDEs while feeding field feedback into product improvements.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL and data pipelines on AWS using Python/PySpark. Develop Glue/Lambda/Step Function workflows, event-driven integrations, and data lake/warehouse solutions. Tune SQL, implement monitoring/validation, support API/JSON integrations, troubleshoot operations, document and automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers.

Support building and maintaining ETL pipelines using Python and PySpark. Work with AWS services (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Redshift, RDS, EMR) to ingest, transform, and validate data. Write complex SQL, implement basic monitoring/logging, process API/JSON payloads, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders on deployment and documentation.

Design and implement scalable data pipelines and orchestration on GCP to support AI/ML-driven mail intelligence. Build stream and batch processing, ensure data governance and quality, optimize workflows, create visualizations, and collaborate with US cross-functional teams to align technical strategy and recover from failures.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize ADABAS database structures and data solutions. Support mainframe data processing (Natural, COBOL, JCL), perform migrations to modern platforms, tune performance, ensure data integrity/security, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with developers, architects, and analysts on modernization, API/cloud integration, and data warehousing initiatives.

The description combines recruitment management, event planning, business development consulting, and iOS application development. Responsibilities include developing recruitment strategies, training recruiters, maintaining candidate databases, coordinating events, managing vendors and client relationships, developing sales pipelines, and designing, testing, updating, and maintaining iOS applications.

The description is inconsistent with the title and primarily covers recruitment management, event planning, business development, and iOS application development. Responsibilities include developing recruitment strategies, managing recruiters and candidate databases, coordinating events and vendors, creating business development plans, managing client relationships, and designing, testing, and maintaining iOS applications.

Designs, implements, maintains, and evaluates environmental databases for CMS Unified Case Management. Builds and maintains ETL pipelines using AWS, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL; implements automated data validation; automates reporting pipelines; creates dashboards, tables, plots, maps, and documentation. Performs data analysis, develops recommendations, follows project specifications, and presents findings to stakeholders while applying Agile practices.

Designs and develops complex cloud-native data solutions, scalable batch and real-time pipelines, APIs, data models, and enterprise data platforms. Implements data governance, quality, lineage, security, observability, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational reporting capabilities. Collaborates with architects, product owners, analysts, governance, security, and platform teams on technology strategy and cloud modernization. Mentors engineers, leads technical design discussions, presents recommendations, and supports AI-ready data products and emerging development tools.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable distributed data pipelines and ETL workflows. Ensures data quality, integrity, security, privacy, and availability; optimizes data processing performance; monitors production systems; diagnoses root causes; documents architectures and procedures; and provides rotational on-call support for critical data systems.

Designs and maintains pipelines migrating financial data from legacy Oracle databases to Oracle ERP. Develops SQL and PL/SQL transformations, backend integrations, data mappings, reconciliation, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation. Partners with accounting, business, and technical stakeholders to resolve issues and support large-scale financial transformation. The role also involves AI tool adoption, code reviews, solution design, deployment activities, governance, communication, mentoring, and project oversight.

Own the architecture, technical direction, reliability, and evolution of a shared cloud data platform. Lead hands-on development of streaming and batch pipelines using infrastructure-as-code, build governed analytical data products, and establish data contracts, quality, security, lineage, and observability standards. Serve as the final technical escalation point, mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, promote responsible AI-assisted coding, respond to incidents, and communicate technical tradeoffs across stakeholders.

Design and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines and cloud data warehouse models, build Power BI reports, apply AI tools to accelerate data workflows, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics and data governance.

Own end-to-end data engineering for a business domain, including API and other-source ingestion, dbt models, orchestration, data-quality testing, monitoring, documentation, and performance. Build reliable, AI-ready single sources of truth and ensure data freshness, accuracy, traceability, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and the Director of Data, establish engineering patterns, review work, and mentor other engineers.