Databricks Platform Engineer — AWS DB Guru

CoStar; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

CoStar Group in Arlington, VA is seeking a Databricks Platform & Database Engineer to own our Databricks environment on AWS and manage relational and non-relational databases across cloud and on‑premises.

The role requires hands‑on administration, automation, governance, and platform reliability, with collaboration across data scientists, DBAs, and DevOps to deliver scalable data solutions. Hybrid work from Arlington, with in-office Mon–Thu and remote Fri.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university.
• 5+ years of experience in database engineering or data platform roles.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise Databricks environments.
• Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent-based architectures.
• Strong SQL, PySpark, and Python skills.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, administer, and maintain Databricks workspaces on AWS.
• Manage Unity Catalog objects and workspace security.
• Lead platform upgrades and migrations.
• Monitor and optimize clusters, SQL warehouses, and jobs.
• Design end-to-end data workflows to downstream systems.

Skills

Databricks admin

Advanced SQL

PySpark

Python

Data governance

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Looker

PowerBI

Snowflake Administration

Kafka

Job description

CoStar Group in Arlington, VA is seeking a Databricks Platform & Database Engineer to own our Databricks environment on AWS and manage relational and non-relational databases across cloud and on‑premises.

The role requires hands‑on administration, automation, governance, and platform reliability, with collaboration across data scientists, DBAs, and DevOps to deliver scalable data solutions. Hybrid work from Arlington, with in-office Mon–Thu and remote Fri.