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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.\nThis is a hands-on, high-impact role with strong ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, security, and cost optimization.\nThis role requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in either San Diego, CA or Boulder, CO.\n**This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.**\n Minimum Qualifications:\n• 7+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.OR\n9+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.\n5+ years of work experience with programming (e.g., Java, Python).\n3+ years of work experience with SQL or NoSQL Databases.\n• 3+ years of work experience with Data Structures and algorithms.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and build scalable, distributed data platform systems \nOwn Databricks workspace architecture, governance, and lifecycle management\nImplement infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terramate\nBuild and support end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion to analytics and ML\nDevelop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, data pipelines, notebooks, SQL, and ML artifacts\nOperate and optimize Amazon EKS clusters supporting data workloads\nDefine and monitor SLIs/SLOs for platform reliability and data quality\nDrive innovation and continuous improvement across platform architecture and tooling\nLead incident response, on-call rotations, and blameless post-mortems\nImplement strong security, compliance, and governance controls\nMentor engineers and influence platform standards and best practices\nMust-Have Qualifications\nSystem Design & Innovation\nProven experience designing complex, distributed data systems end-to-end\nStrong system design skills across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, storage, governance, and observability\nAbility to evaluate and communicate architectural trade-offs (scalability, reliability, cost, security, operability)\nDemonstrated innovation mindset, such as:Modernizing or simplifying legacy data platforms\nIntroducing new architectural patterns or platform capabilities\nImproving reliability, performance, or developer experience through design\n\nCloud & Data Platform Expertise\n8+ years building and operating large-scale cloud platforms\n5+ years in Data Platform, DevOps, SRE, or DataOps roles\nExpert-level experience with AWS, including networking, IAM, security, and multi-account environments\nStrong hands-on experience with Databricks Lakehouse Platform, including:Unity Catalog\nDelta Lake\nMLflow\n\nExperience owning Databricks workspace architecture and governance\nInfrastructure, Automation & Reliability\nDeep experience with Terraform/Terramate (or similar IaC tools)\nProven experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)\nAdvanced Python and Bash scripting skills\nHands-on experience managing Amazon EKS clusters and Helm deployments\nExperience defining and operating SLIs/SLOs for platform reliability and data quality\nSecurity & Leadership\nStrong understanding of cloud security best practices\nExperience supporting SOX, GDPR, or regulated environments\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (or equivalent experience)\nAbility to work independently and mentor team members\nStrong communication skills to explain complex system designs to technical and non-technical stakeholders\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with Acceldata, OpenTelemetry, or data observability tools\nExperience with Fivetran Hybrid / HVR or enterprise ingestion tools\nExperience working with Hashicorp vault or similar secret management tools\nPolicy-as-code experience using OPA\nExperience working with static Code analysis tool like Sonar\nExperience with data lineage or metadata management tools\nDatabricks serverless compute optimization and cost management\nExperience driving platform strategy across multiple teams distributed globally\nQualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nEEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nPay rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :\n$161,600.00 - $242,400.00The 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. 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