Top Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and own end-to-end data systems and pipelines powering payments, fraud response, and reporting. Implement streaming and batch integrations, APIs, and workflow orchestration. Define data correctness with monitoring, alerting, and tests. Create reusable patterns and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and tradeoffs.

As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, you'll lead data initiatives, manage a team, and ensure data quality while turning insights into actionable decisions across the company.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable data pipelines, optimize workflows with dbt and Snowflake, and mentor teams across functions to enhance data reliability and performance.

The Snowflake Data Engineer will work on data cleansing and harmonization, moving from legacy systems to SAP S4, focusing on ETL/ELT development and view creation.

This role involves designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines on Snowflake. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver solutions.

The AWS Data Engineer will work on a data cleansing and harmonization project, focusing on AWS ETL design and development using various AWS services.

The Snowflake Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain data pipelines on Snowflake, optimizing performance and ensuring data quality while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Snowflake Data Engineer and Product Owner will manage the Snowflake data analytics project, collaborating with stakeholders, leading Agile practices, and ensuring quality deliverables through effective team coordination and backlog management.

Develop custom connectors on Airbyte for data ingestion from various platforms, ensuring accurate data integration and transformation. Collaborate with stakeholders and perform testing for reliability.

The Principal Data Engineer designs and maintains scalable data systems, evaluates new technologies, mentors junior engineers, and leads data engineering initiatives in agile environments.

Design and maintain a dbt-based business data layer for GTM metrics, centralize and reconcile multi-source data, implement automated data quality and reconciliation checks, align and document metrics with stakeholders, mentor analytics team, and lead root-cause investigations into complex data anomalies.

Lead and mentor a distributed data engineering team while architecting and building a next-generation, largely open-source data platform. Own hands-on POCs, pipeline design, schema and query optimization, ETL reliability, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Evaluate and recommend technologies, drive migration from vendor lock-in, and translate advertising and market research needs into robust technical solutions.

Lead design and ownership of a modern data platform: ingestion, Snowflake governance, pipeline reliability, migrations, data contracts, observability, and AI-enabled tooling. Partner with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors to deliver trustworthy data products and operate production pipelines.

The Principal Data Platform Engineer leads the architecture and development of the enterprise data platform, focusing on analytics, data science, and AI/ML capabilities. They establish standards for data quality and observability, design data ingestion and processing patterns, and mentor team members to enhance technical capabilities.

Own and operate Databricks production pipelines for Sugar Predict: monitor, alert, incident response, SLA reporting, performance and cost optimizations, migrate legacy ETL, onboard tenants, enforce Delta Lake architecture and multi-tenant isolation, apply security and governance, enable observability, maintain runbooks, and support CI/CD and on-call rotations.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and a lakehouse on AWS. Implement ETL/ELT, CDC, metadata/catalog and governance, automated AWS provisioning (IaC), CI/CD for data pipelines, data quality and lineage, observability, and documentation while collaborating across teams.

Own day-to-day Snowflake administration and the Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt modeling scope, reverse-ETL to Salesforce/HubSpot/NetSuite, data quality SLAs, reporting and dashboards, partner with managed data vendors, design automation and reproducible month-end financial analytics, and drive analysis and experiments for AdOps, Sales, and Finance.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

The Sr. Data Engineer designs ETL solutions and data architecture, collaborates on technical solutions, and addresses data management functions.

As a Data Engineer, you will develop solutions for customer-centric technology, ensuring platform integration and managing data architecture. Responsibilities include building data processes, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet business challenges.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data platform architecture. Build programmatic pipelines (primarily Python), optimize analytical data models (SQL), integrate sources into Snowflake, use orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster), improve data quality/observability, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

Own and scale Provable's data platform on GCP: build and optimize ingestion pipelines from blockchain indexers, design privacy-aware data models, manage Postgres and BigQuery, develop high-performance data-serving APIs, ensure data quality and observability, and use IaC (Terraform, Helm) and Kubernetes to deploy and cost-optimize environments.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement data processing pipelines using Java and Spark, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring compliance with data governance standards.

Founding data engineer to design and build Payabli's data platform: architect lakehouse/warehouse, build batch and streaming pipelines, model canonical datasets, ensure data quality/observability, enforce access/masking/lineage for regulated financial data, and enable analytics/ML feature pipelines while establishing team standards and CI/CD.