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This role is ideal for a senior engineer who excels in system design, platform innovation, and hands‑on execution.
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Qualcomm Incorporated
Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Data Engineer
We are hiring a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern, data platform with Databricks Lakehouse as a core foundation.
This role is ideal for a senior engineer who excels in system design, platform innovation, and hands‑on execution. You will help design, implement and improve reliability of the data platform, influence architectural direction, and mentor engineers while working closely with data scientists, analysts, and application teams.
This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role with strong ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, security, and cost optimization.
This role requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in either San Diego, CA or Boulder, CO.
This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.**
Design and build scalable, distributed data platform systems
Own Databricks workspace architecture, governance, and lifecycle management
Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terramate
Build and support end‑to‑end data pipelines, from ingestion to analytics and ML
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, data pipelines, notebooks, SQL, and ML artifacts
Operate and optimize Amazon EKS clusters supporting data workloads
Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs for platform reliability and data quality
Drive innovation and continuous improvement across platform architecture and tooling
Lead incident response, on‑call rotations, and blameless post‑mortems
Implement strong security, compliance, and governance controls
Mentor engineers and influence platform standards and best practices
Must‑Have Qualifications
System Design & Innovation
Proven experience designing complex, distributed data systems end‑to‑end
Strong system design skills across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, storage, governance, and observability
Ability to evaluate and communicate architectural trade‑offs (scalability, reliability, cost, security, operability)
Modernizing or simplifying legacy data platforms
Introducing new architectural patterns or platform capabilities
Improving reliability, performance, or developer experience through design
Cloud & Data Platform Expertise
8+ years building and operating large‑scale cloud platforms
5+ years in Data Platform, DevOps, SRE, or DataOps roles
Expert‑level experience with AWS, including networking, IAM, security, and multi‑account environments
Strong hands‑on experience with Databricks Lakehouse Platform, including:
Unity Catalog
Delta Lake
MLflow
Experience owning Databricks workspace architecture and governance
Infrastructure, Automation & Reliability
Deep experience with Terraform/Terramate (or similar IaC tools)
Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Advanced Python and Bash scripting skills
Hands‑on experience managing Amazon EKS clusters and Helm deployments
Experience defining and operating SLIs/SLOs for platform reliability and data quality
Security & Leadership
Strong understanding of cloud security best practices
Experience supporting SOX, GDPR, or regulated environments
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (or equivalent experience)
Ability to work independently and mentor team members
Strong communication skills to explain complex system designs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
Nice‑to‑Have
Experience with Acceldata, OpenTelemetry, or data observability tools
Experience with Fivetran Hybrid / HVR or enterprise ingestion tools
Experience working with Hashicorp vault or similar secret management tools
Policy‑as‑code experience using OPA
Experience working with static Code analysis tool like Sonar
Experience with data lineage or metadata management tools
Databricks serverless compute optimization and cost management
Experience driving platform strategy across multiple teams distributed globally
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$161,600.00 - $242,400.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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