Database Engineer - Databricks

Profiles
Irvine, CA, United States
3 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$150,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Airflow Databases Directed Acyclic Graph (Directed Graphs) Information Engineering Software Debugging Distributed Data Store Python (Programming Language) Microsoft SQL Server Query Optimization Standard Sql SQL Databases
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Data Streaming Connectivity Problems Apache Spark Indexer Data Lakes Pyspark Databricks

Job description

  • Own day-to-day operation and reliability of Databricks jobs, pipelines, compute/cluster configuration, Delta Lake tables, and SQL warehouses.
  • Develop and optimize Spark transformations across bronze/silver/gold medallion layers including incremental loads via Auto Loader and Structured Streaming.
  • Administer governance and access through Unity Catalog consistent with PII containment in a regulated lending environment.
  • Monitor and control DBU consumption and cluster costs through alerting and right-sizing to keep platform spend predictable.
  • Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures, data quality issues, schema drift, and connectivity problems end-to-end while maintaining runbooks and documentation.

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Requirements

Do you have experience in Spark?, * 3+ years of hands-on data engineering experience in a production environment.

  • Deep Databricks expertise including notebooks, Jobs, Workflows, Unity Catalog governance, and Databricks Certification.
  • Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL skills for building and debugging distributed data transformations.
  • Solid MSSQL/SQL Server experience with focus on query optimization, indexing, and performance diagnostics.
  • Production experience with Apache Airflow - authoring, scheduling, and debugging DAGs.

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive salary up to $150,000 annually.
  • Working for one of the most trusted names in financial services for more than 100 years, a brand known by millions.
  • Flexibility and work-life balance.
  • Working on a caring and supportive team that values your input, shares your goals, and celebrates your success.

About the company

A leader in the financial services industry is hiring a Database Engineer- Databricks in Irvine, CA for a full time position, onsite 2 days a week.

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