Senior Data Engineer - Debt Solutions - San Diego, CA

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.

The Debt Solutions Team is growing quickly, and we’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help accelerate our growth. This role will be responsible for helping build out sitewide tracking architecture and then feeding that data into user-friendly KPI dashboards which track site performance and product usage and provide day-to-day insights into consumer behavior. This individual will help build and deliver the data engineering architecture for Debt Solutions and work across all departments to provide analysis and insights for future growth. You will be part of various aspects of our data management, ranging from designing and maintaining automated data infrastructure and delivering Data engineering and Analytics solutions to facilitating data access and analysis for key company teams.

Our team in San Diego plays a key role in the development of these industry-leading products. We’re a full-stack product development organization, with front end, back end, data and machine learning engineering roles, building great products with modern tools and technology.

This position is located in San Diego, CA and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in the office and work from home o n Fridays.

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 A WS 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

K nowledge 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 s pecific 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 in

your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

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

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a

variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

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.

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