Senior Data Engineer
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)24 hours ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$130k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, document, and maintain APIs, backend services, data services, and reusable platform components.
- Build Python-based services and FastAPI endpoints supporting internal and customer-facing applications.
- Develop SQL solutions for storing, querying, transforming, validating, and serving business data.
- Prepare, structure, validate, store, retrieve, govern, and maintain AI-ready data assets.
- Support metadata enrichment, retrieval optimization, evaluation datasets, document processing pipelines, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
- Contribute to API design, data modeling, automated testing, observability, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, logging, and production support.
- Implement secure, scalable, performant, maintainable, and production-ready software solutions.
- Collaborate with Product, AI Engineering, Application Engineering, Solution Engineering, Platform Reliability, Architecture, and Security teams.
- Participate in agile development activities, technical documentation, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Support troubleshooting, performance tuning, root cause analysis, and production issue resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience developing production software applications, APIs, backend services, platform capabilities, or data-driven solutions.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and API development frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and secure software systems.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or comparable development and delivery tools.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, data modeling, automated testing, observability, performance optimization, and production support.
- Experience building services or APIs supporting application workflows, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, or enterprise platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS, with a preference for Azure experience.
- Experience with source control, code review, monitoring, logging, secure development practices, and software delivery environments.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in technically complex industries, product-led or platform-based environments, secure agent deployment, enterprise integrations, AI-enabled applications, retrieval-based systems, document processing, vector databases, data governance, lineage, cloud security, identity management, and reusable software standards.
- Strong collaboration, problem-solving, communication, organizational, written English, and verbal English skills; ability to work in globally distributed multidisciplinary teams.
- Successful completion of pre-employment drug and background screening.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days, and paid volunteer time off.
- Multiple medical and dental plans, vision benefits, FSA, dependent care and commuter benefits, and a company-seeded HSA.
- Employer-paid therapist-led virtual care through Talkspace.
- 401(k) with company match, company-provided life insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Education reimbursement, career advancement opportunities, charitable matching, and volunteer rewards.
- Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities; this position typically requires three days per week at a DNV office or client location/site.
- Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election.
About Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
DNV provides risk management, assurance, and technical advisory services plus specialized engineering software to maritime, energy, and industrial customers. Its offerings include ship classification, certification and audits, technology qualification and testing, and data platforms for asset integrity and safety. Founded in 1864 and headquartered in Høvik, Oslo, DNV is privately held and operates in more than 100 countries.