Database Engineer - Databricks
Mutual of Omaha Mortgage · Irvine, CA
$130,000–$150,000
Jun 29, 2026
Irvine, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on engineering role responsible for operating and maintaining a Databricks Lakehouse platform at a residential mortgage lender. Day-to-day work covers managing ingestion pipelines, Spark transformations across medallion layers, Databricks SQL warehouses, Unity Catalog governance, Apache Airflow orchestration, and MSSQL databases. Suits an experienced data engineer comfortable owning a production platform end-to-end in a regulated financial environment.
Mid level · 3+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $130,000–$150,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 4–10
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $155,740 (middle half $119,140–$178,140). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1243 (Database Architects) and 15-1252 (Software Developers). The primary day-to-day work is owning a Databricks Lakehouse platform — operating pipelines, Delta Lake tables, Unity Catalog governance, and SQL warehouses — which maps most closely to database/data architecture. However, the role also involves authoring Spark transformations in Python/PySpark and extending Airflow orchestration, which has a software-development character.
Irvine, CA falls within the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CBSA (31080); there is no separate Irvine CBSA.
The posting requires a Databricks Certification but does not specify which certification tier; it is captured under the Databricks skill rather than as a separate entry since no distinct tool is named.
Salesforce is listed as an example SaaS/CRM source system ('e.g., Salesforce') under Required Skills. The 'e.g.' qualifier means the specific tool is interchangeable, but the requirement for SaaS/CRM integration experience is a hard gate; Salesforce is retained as the named representative with no alternatives listed since no other specific tool is named.
The role is titled 'Database Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but requires 3+ years of production experience with deep Databricks ownership. This supports a Mid-level classification despite the high autonomy described — the experience floor (3+ years) and absence of cross-team or architectural leadership scope do not support Senior.
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