Database Engineer

About the role

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.

Requirements

• 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
• Prior production experience with Apache Airflow — authoring, scheduling, and debugging DAGs

Responsibilities

• 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

Perks

• 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 for a caring and supportive team that values your input, shares your goals, and celebrates your success