Top Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT, and BI solutions. Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to improve data quality, accessibility, and PHI security. Develop and document workflows, optimize processing/storage, support data warehouse and visualization, and adopt AI tools to drive data-informed outcomes.

Design, build, and maintain dbt data models and scalable ELT pipelines; optimize performance-aware SQL on Snowflake; ensure observability, testing, and CI/CD; partner with product and engineering teams to meet analytic needs, mentor engineers, document business logic, and troubleshoot ingestion, transformation, and warehouse issues.