Top Data Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs and maintains data collection infrastructure, resilient pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data warehouses, streaming architecture, BI reporting, and analytical systems. Troubleshoots technical defects, performs root-cause analysis, maintains specialized datasets, and owns end-to-end data collection, extraction, and cleansing. The role requires experience with AWS, Google Cloud, ETL tools, programming languages, NoSQL databases, and BI platforms.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Build and maintain data pipelines, ingestion workflows, transformations, and data products using Python, SQL, and cloud data platforms. Test and troubleshoot systems while applying Git, software testing, and CI/CD practices. Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, use AI-assisted tools, and deliver reliable data solutions in a fast-paced startup environment.

Define and govern enterprise-scale data architecture across batch, streaming, warehouse, lakehouse, transactional, and AI use cases. Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, cataloging, governance, observability, and SLAs. Architect AI-enabled workflows, resolve complex architecture issues, influence roadmaps, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership. The role requires 15+ years of software, data engineering, or architecture experience and expertise in large-scale data platforms and modeling.

Design, build, and lead scalable data platforms, pipelines, data products, and ELT/ETL processes supporting analytics and AI/ML workloads. Establish standards for data quality, testing, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Own projects through deployment and production support, collaborate across technical and business teams, use AI-assisted engineering tools, and mentor data engineers.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable data pipelines, models, databases, and warehouses. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions, implements governance and security practices, monitors production work, performs data analysis, and supports data quality and compliance. The role also evaluates emerging technologies, contributes to architectural decisions, and mentors junior data engineers.

Design, build, and optimize GCP-based data architectures and ETL/ELT pipelines using BigQuery, Dataflow, dbt, and orchestration tools. Ensure data quality, security, and integration from diverse sources; collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights.

Design, build, and operate Azure-based data pipelines and integrations. Consolidate data from multiple sources into centralized SQL systems, perform transformations and field mapping, and maintain data warehouse capabilities. Troubleshoot quality, integrity, latency, security, and reliability issues while applying governance, monitoring, and SLA practices. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders in Agile pods to deliver reusable, analytics-ready data assets.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Configure and maintain Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP data pipelines, XDM schemas, datasets, identity resolution, Profile enablement, segmentation readiness, and destination activation. Validate data quality, troubleshoot ingestion and identity issues, manage sandboxes, and implement privacy, consent, governance, and access controls. Partner with architects, data engineers, consultants, analysts, data scientists, and marketing teams to support reporting, personalization, and machine learning readiness.

The Solutions Data Engineer will manage data integrations end-to-end, utilizing FloQast's Data Platform and Data Studio to connect source systems and transform data for reliable outputs across applications.

Build scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers. Build reliable streaming and batch pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Airflow; manage Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi table formats; optimize Trino, Starburst, and Databricks queries; and improve platform reliability, data quality, and performance. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver scalable data platform solutions.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data foundations using Databricks, dbt, and AWS. Transform raw structured and unstructured data into reliable datasets for product analytics and data science, including telemetry, streaming data, and feature engineering. Develop dashboards in Tableau and Databricks, optimize workflows, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, analytics, and data science stakeholders to support product health, adoption, and performance insights.

Build, model, and maintain scalable BigQuery-based data solutions on GCP. Implement performant data models, storage partitioning/clustering, ETL improvements, data validation, and documentation. Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and engineers to deliver governed, high-quality data for reporting and AI initiatives.

Design, build, and operate complex Apache Airflow workflows, Snowflake and dbt data transformation pipelines, and distributed data science inference systems across multi-cloud environments including AWS and GCP. Collaborate with an experienced data engineering team while applying systems engineering and product lifecycle principles.

Develops and operates integrated data systems supporting New Glenn certification and launch services. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, maintenance, sharing, governance, customer engagement, training metrics, and certification support. The role collaborates with New Glenn teams, NASA, and U.S. Space Force partners; plans technical products, communicates results, enforces data-marking practices, manages resources, and provides product ownership in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Architects and evolves enterprise-scale batch, real-time, and event-driven data platforms and pipelines. Leads data modeling, distributed processing, data quality, governance, observability, CI/CD, security, monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization. Provides technical direction across hybrid cloud environments, mentors engineers, leads critical initiatives and code reviews, manages technical debt, evaluates new technologies, and partners with business and technical stakeholders. Participates in on-call rotations and supports distributed and offshore engineering teams.

Build and operate data-intensive web products and APIs, extend high-throughput ETL pipelines and scrapers, ensure reliability/observability, design self-scaling services, participate in code review, and collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to meet production SLAs.

Build and maintain production data pipelines, Airflow DAGs, Snowflake infrastructure, and Data Vault 2.0 models. Ensure data quality, observability, security, governance, reliability, and cost efficiency through automated testing and CI/CD. Lead technical projects end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders, and support SOX-relevant reporting while developing expertise in commercial insurance data and processes.

The Forward Deployed Data Engineer will manage AI-automated data platform migration projects, ensuring timely delivery and communication with clients while utilizing proprietary tools.

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Python. Design ETL workflows, implement distributed data processing, use version control (Git), and work with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).