GCP Data Engineer: BigQuery, dbt & Scalable Pipelines

Talentify; Folsom (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Referral program

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Talentify is seeking a Data Engineer for a San Francisco, CA-based role with a leading American multinational retailer. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Dataproc, BigQuery, SQL, and dbt to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, build robust data models, and focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and processing large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines on GCP.
• Build and optimize data solutions using Dataproc, BigQuery, SQL, and dbt.
• Develop and maintain high-quality data models for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Ingest, transform, validate, and publish data from multiple enterprise sources.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Data Architects, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Develop reusable data transformation components and adhere to engineering standards.
• Optimize data processing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Perform unit testing, data validation, and production support for data quality.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and code reviews.
• Document technical designs, data flows, and implementation details.

Skills

GCP

Dataproc

BigQuery

SQL

dbt

Data modeling

ETL pipelines

Python

PySpark

Airflow

Kafka

Git

CI/CD

Data governance

Metadata management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

Apache Airflow

Apache Kafka

Job description

Talentify is seeking a Data Engineer for a San Francisco, CA-based role with a leading American multinational retailer. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Dataproc, BigQuery, SQL, and dbt to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, build robust data models, and focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.