Remote Databricks Data Engineer - Production Reliability

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking an experienced Databricks Data Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance production Databricks data applications and pipelines. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and scalability of existing workloads, not building new platforms from scratch.

You will collaborate with data, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure stability, optimization, and alignment with business needs, while adhering to best practices in security and governance.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of experience in data engineering roles.
• Experience maintaining production Databricks pipelines and Delta Lake.
• Strong SQL skills, Spark performance tuning, and data quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain existing Databricks applications, notebooks, jobs, and Delta Lake pipelines in production.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to job failures, performance, data quality, and cluster utilization.
• Optimize Spark jobs and Delta tables for cost, performance, and reliability.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Data Quality

Observability

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark SQL

Job description

OpenTalent is seeking an experienced Databricks Data Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance production Databricks data applications and pipelines. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and scalability of existing workloads, not building new platforms from scratch.

You will collaborate with data, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure stability, optimization, and alignment with business needs, while adhering to best practices in security and governance.