Senior Data Engineer - Debt Solutions - San Diego, CA

Visual Lease; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401(K) retirement plan with matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness center

Job summary

CoStar Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and oversee dimensional data modeling and cloud data platform structures in San Diego, CA. You will build scalable pipelines with Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS services, integrating AI/ML into data workflows and ensuring data governance across domains.

The role requires 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, strong Python/PySpark/SQL skills, and a track record of delivering enterprise data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited institution.
• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong data engineering skills with Python, PySpark, and SQL.
• Experience building enterprise data platforms and data warehouses.
• Knowledge of cloud data services and data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee dimensional modeling and data platform structures.
• Develop secure data warehouses and data lakehouses; implement Medallion Architecture.
• Build scalable ETL pipelines using Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS services.
• Optimize Spark jobs and data processing workflows; ensure data quality and performance.
• Integrate ML models into data pipelines and leverage Databricks ML / AWS ML.
• Lead data governance, lineage, testing, and monitoring frameworks.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Object-Oriented Programming

Dimensional modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Power BI

DynamoDB

S3

Kafka

Azure

Job description

Senior Data Engineer - Debt Solutions - San Diego, CA

Job Description

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver to our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Responsibilities

• Design and Oversee implementation of dimensional modeling, database design, and cloud data platform structures (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)


• Develop data platform framework to build secure data warehouses and data lakehouses applying principles of Medallion Architecture


• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes using Databricks, Snowflake, and other AWS services


• Implement and optimize Spark jobs, data transformations, and data processing workflows in Databricks


• Building and deploying AI/ML models: Integrate Machine Learning into data pipelines, leverage Databricks ML and AWS ML to develop predictive models and drive business insights


• Define and Apply AI-assisted software development practices to improve engineering productivity and code quality


• Understand various data domains and be able to translate them through data transformations to suit various business needs


• Oversee automated data infrastructure: Collaborate with software engineering and product teams to streamline data tracking in our products


• Ability to integrate data from disparate sources via cross domain data stitch into existing data model


• Implement data governance, lineage tracking, testing, and monitoring frameworks to guarantee data integrity


• Hands‑on data optimization and query performance


• Liaise with key company teams (DBA, DevOps, SecOps…) for data accessibility and analysis


• Mentor and manage engineers and analysts in the normal execution of their responsibilities.


• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters


• Leverage AWS DevOps and CI/CD best practices to automate the deployment, through terraform, and management of data pipelines and infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university


• A track record of commitment to prior employers


• 6+ years of hands‑on experience in software development, delivering high‑quality solutions


• Strength in Data Engineering, with strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL


• Solid foundation in Object‑Oriented Programming principles and best practices


• Demonstrated success in building and launching data‑driven products operating at terabyte scale


• Proven record of designing and implementing Enterprise Level secure, and accurate Data platform


• Ability to translate technical requirements into robust architecture, data models, and ETL strategies


• Practical experience with cloud‑based databases, including both relational and non‑relational systems


• Knowledge of business intelligence software (i.e. Power BI or similar tools)


• Understanding of AI technologies and hands‑on experience leveraging AI tooling in development (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, Grok)


• Ability to retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in structures that is immediately useful to answering specific ad‑hoc questions


• Hands‑on data experience on optimization, data quality checks, data accuracy and query performance improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience or familiarity with big data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake


• Proficiency with cloud platforms, including AWS or Azure


• Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and object storage systems (e.g., Amazon S3, GCS, etc.)


• Practical knowledge of event streaming technologies, especially Kafka


• Experience leveraging AWS compute and container services for scalable solutions


• Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or agent‑based architectures


• Great analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges


• Strong Ability to understand technical challenges and complex designs, and communicate into simple business ideas, or solutions with senior management/stakeholders

What's In It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests inyour professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug


• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance


• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family


• Commuter and parking benefits


• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions


• Employee stock purchase plan


• Paid time off


• Tuition reimbursement


• On‑site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes


• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups


• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

Base Compensation: $146,000-$190,000 Annually

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full‑time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing