Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs, develops, validates, and documents analytics data solutions for diverse client environments. Builds Snowflake, SQL, dbt, and AWS ingestion and transformation pipelines; monitors data quality and performance; troubleshoots complex technology issues; and supports reporting and business insights. Manages project scope, budgets, documentation, governance, client communication, implementation planning, and quality assurance while collaborating across teams and identifying opportunities for additional solutions.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and compliance controls, developing dbt data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, automating with Python, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience, cloud expertise, container orchestration, and eligibility for CJIS clearance.

Process and validate aircraft monitoring data, decode avionics bus data, troubleshoot C-17 systems, perform root cause analysis, develop data-mining algorithms, and provide technical recommendations to customers. The role supports program reviews, integrated product teams, design reviews, and aircraft health management for the C-17 fleet.

Designs and leads manufacturing data architecture, repositories, models, integration patterns, pipelines, data services, and APIs. The role integrates complex data from equipment, sensors, quality, engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise systems; establishes standards and technical direction; and communicates risks and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders. Requires advanced SQL, programming, relational modeling, greenfield solution delivery, Secret or Top Secret clearance eligibility, flexible shift availability, and at least 10% travel.

Architects, deploys, and operates large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent streaming platforms. Responsibilities include cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, HA/DR, troubleshooting, and developer enablement. Partners with application and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable event-driven solutions, translates ambiguous requirements into production-ready designs, contributes to code and design reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

Lead the reverse-engineering and migration of legacy ETL pipelines from SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and JD Edwards into dbt and Databricks architectures. Build automated data validation, maintain SQL Server write-back mechanisms, collaborate with client stakeholders, and lead and mentor a small engineering team. The role requires hands-on expertise in SQL, Python, Spark, orchestration, cloud platforms, and legacy ERP and ETL migrations.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Leads the design, development, and operation of Astrana’s enterprise data platform. Builds scalable Databricks, Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake pipelines; integrates healthcare data; develops unified data models and APIs; supports Lakebase and PostgreSQL applications; and implements governance, data quality, monitoring, CI/CD, automation, and performance optimization. The role also handles incidents, disaster recovery coordination, engineering standards, code reviews, and mentoring across internal and vendor teams.

Leads data architecture and engineering modernization across business domains. Designs and implements complex pipelines, integrations, data models, and orchestration using Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow. Establishes data quality, governance, security, testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability practices. Provides architectural guidance, evaluates technical solutions, leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, and improves platform performance and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain scalable Snowflake-based ELT/ETL pipelines, production data models, and observability frameworks. Translate business requirements into reliable solutions supporting analytics, BI, and ML. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance practices while optimizing warehouse performance, cost, and data freshness. Collaborate with Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams, contribute to architecture decisions, evaluate Snowflake tooling, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data collection, storage, access, and analytics systems. Creates and automates reliable data pipelines, supports data quality and governance, ensures SLA and performance compliance, and monitors pipeline operations. The role requires collaboration with analytics, business, and customer teams, with potential work involving AI/ML pipelines, Databricks, DevOps practices, streaming data, and event-driven architectures.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop data warehouse models, transformations, automation, quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop warehouse models, transformations, automation, data quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Designs and maintains a scalable data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. Builds tooling for reliable data pipelines, semantic layers, data agents, LLM applications, and evaluation systems. Ensures data quality, availability, observability, and reliability while establishing modeling, testing, and platform best practices. Collaborates with Data Science and Product Engineering, leads solutions from design through implementation, and contributes individually in a fast-paced startup environment.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics warehouses, transformation layers, and dimensional data models. Perform SQL-based analysis, support dashboards and reporting, monitor data quality and delivery SLAs, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational reliability. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders while contributing to documentation, governance, observability, and automation.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and data quality processes. Design scalable processing systems, orchestration workflows, storage patterns, and data warehouse solutions. Collaborate remotely, document technical designs, scope projects, and solve complex data engineering and data science problems.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Own data pipelines into and out of the warehouse, dbt models, data integrity, governance, identity resolution, reverse ETL, and quality monitoring across growth, lifecycle, and brokerage data. Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to establish data contracts, ensure accurate and timely business metrics, and support regulated financial data requirements.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

Design and build scalable data infrastructure, including lakehouse architecture, ClickHouse deployments, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data models connecting Postgres with analytics systems. Establish data quality, observability, performance, cost, and reliability standards. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, define data contracts and specifications, support real-time analytics, and use AI-assisted coding and LLMs to accelerate pipeline development and transformation.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable data platforms, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving reliability and performance, and enabling AI-assisted analytics and development. The role includes hands-on development with Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses, orchestration, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Kafka, and streaming pipelines, along with mentoring, technical advocacy, documentation, code reviews, and on-call troubleshooting.

Data Engineer II will modernize BlueLabs’ data platform by leading Kimball dimensional modeling and legacy warehouse migrations, building reliable production data pipelines, and enforcing data quality standards. The role requires advanced SQL, Python, and dbt expertise, hands-on Snowflake and Redshift experience, and ownership of testing, documentation, observability, and scalable architecture. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally, guide Data Engineer I team members, contribute to architectural decisions, and translate business logic into maintainable, cloud-agnostic data layers.

The AVP, Data Engineer will design and build data ingestion, transformation, and replication pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Dagster. Responsibilities include translating requirements into technical designs, developing data products, debugging production issues, supporting testing, and improving data engineering practices. The role also involves data modeling, mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on. Experience with modern data platforms, workflow orchestration, cloud ecosystems, and insurance or financial services is preferred.

Designs, builds, deploys, and operates scalable data pipelines, datalake systems, streaming and batch processing frameworks, MLOps infrastructure, data documentation tooling, and an agentic data exploration platform. The role improves engineering velocity, data reliability, observability, discoverability, and machine learning development across customer-facing products.