Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs

Build and operate core data infrastructure for edge and hybrid environments, including ingestion, OT/IoT integrations, real-time streaming, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, and scalable query access. The role requires production ownership, reliability practices, customer integration, and collaboration across engineering and customer-facing teams. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience with production data, streaming, or integration systems and proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, PySpark, Snowflake, and Azure technologies. Build data ingestion frameworks, dimensional data models, and enterprise warehouse solutions. Optimize Snowflake workloads, implement data quality and governance controls, monitor production pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, document data processes, and collaborate with architects, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders. Support secure, compliant, reliable data platforms for analytics, reporting, and operational use cases.

Designs and operates batch, streaming, and real-time data platforms and pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow, and cloud infrastructure. Owns data lake evolution, data quality, observability, reliability, governance, event instrumentation, schema management, and privacy controls for PII, retention, deletion, and residency. Leads complex initiatives end-to-end, troubleshoots production issues, mentors engineers, and develops AI agent harnesses that enforce data engineering standards and quality gates.

Develops and supports secure data integrations, migrations, and ETL/ELT pipelines across ERP, student information, and data warehouse systems. Builds API, connector, batch, and file-transfer integrations; transforms and validates data; monitors workflows and resolves processing issues. Collaborates with business, technical, security, and analytics stakeholders to gather requirements, document data flows, support reporting, and improve system interoperability. The role requires regular hybrid campus presence in Golden, Colorado.

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines, ETL infrastructure, data warehouses, and analytics tools. The role assembles complex datasets, automates processes, optimizes data delivery architecture, and supports cross-functional data initiatives. Collaborates with executive, product, data, and design stakeholders to resolve technical issues and improve analytics systems. Requires proficiency in SAS, Python, Java, MATLAB, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Presto, UNIX, and Linux, with JavaScript, R, and basic machine learning preferred.

Leads the design, development, and implementation of scalable data pipelines, APIs, cloud-based integrations, and Customer Data Platform solutions. Builds unified customer data ecosystems supporting analytics, personalization, and enterprise integration. Responsibilities include data modeling, Lakehouse and API optimization, governance, privacy compliance, CI/CD automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires extensive experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud platforms, data integration tools, CDPs, and modern data engineering architectures.

Lead the architecture, development, and optimization of Snowflake and enterprise data platforms. Design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, dimensional data models, and medallion architectures while establishing engineering standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, security, and data quality. Partner with stakeholders on technical roadmaps, mentor engineers and analysts, conduct design and code reviews, modernize legacy pipelines, and deliver reliable, reusable data solutions.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines, web-scraping systems, and data-collection tools for AI datasets. Maintain analytical databases, optimize queries, troubleshoot pipeline and data-quality issues, manage containerized workloads across Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure, and support CI/CD workflows. The role also involves documenting technical processes, researching improvements, and developing scalable APIs in a fully remote environment.

Own and build the company’s data warehouse architecture, curated and semantic layers, data models, quality standards, and migration automation. Develop Redshift-based pipelines using Python, PostgreSQL, Fivetran, dbt, AWS, Airflow, and Terraform. Establish metrics governance, observability, infrastructure-as-code, AI-enabled enrichment, anomaly detection, metadata generation, and structured clinical-record ingestion. Partner with engineering, product, and commercial teams to define metrics and reliable platform change contracts while mentoring data engineers.

Design and modify data solutions using Databricks and Palantir Foundry; build data models and reports from ERP and legacy-system datasets; define and execute tests; and translate stakeholder reporting needs into technical specifications. The role requires SQL, Python, PySpark, database architecture, cloud architecture, software engineering practices, independent execution, documentation, and collaboration. It supports an Army client in a hybrid Arlington, Virginia environment and requires an active Secret clearance.

As the first in-house Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality data access and insights.

Design and build PerfectServe’s unified cloud data platform, including ingestion pipelines, integrations, data models, metrics, and consumer-facing data layers. Establish architecture, engineering, quality, and testing standards; enable safe extraction from production systems; partner with data users; and mentor data engineers. The role requires substantial cloud data platform experience, deep SQL, warehouse expertise, ELT, change-data-capture, AWS, modeling, orchestration, and data quality skills.

Owns enterprise data architecture and scalable Databricks pipelines using medallion architecture and lakehouse formats. Designs dimensional models, star schemas, data marts, and the semantic layer; governs data quality and reliability; optimizes infrastructure and cloud costs; prioritizes deployments; collaborates with stakeholders; and mentors a junior data engineer.

Designs, develops, and maintains large-scale data processing systems, including ETL processes, data models, scalable pipelines, databases, data warehouses, and cloud-based big data solutions. Uses Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, and Airflow while applying DevOps and security practices. Optimizes distributed processing and storage systems, collaborates with data scientists and analysts, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable AWS data platforms, pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and orchestration systems. Uses Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, AWS services, modern lakehouse technologies, and CI/CD practices to deliver secure federal data solutions. Responsibilities include platform modernization, performance optimization, AI-enabled data integration, compliance support, technical mentoring, architecture discussions, and cross-functional Agile collaboration.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for defining data architecture strategy, building fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming infrastructure, and managing scalable lakehouse and database systems. The role processes telemetry from millions of connected devices, drives performance tuning and data quality, supports on-call operations, evaluates modern technologies, and mentors engineers. It requires strong expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data platforms, streaming systems, infrastructure as code, and enterprise-scale architecture.

Build and operate scalable data infrastructure, including fault-tolerant pipelines, data discovery services, and data lineage systems. Develop backend services that process petabytes of data for machine learning and autonomy teams. Lead system design, code reviews, and technical contributions while using AWS cloud ETL technologies and distributed systems. Collaborate with stakeholders to improve platform adoption and address data customer needs.

Design, build, and optimize scalable AWS and Snowflake data pipelines, databases, data models, and cloud-based solutions. Implement ETL/ELT workflows, data quality and monitoring frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, automated recovery, documentation, and performance improvements. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams in an Agile environment while conducting advanced analysis using Python and SQL.

Develop and implement data pipelines and large-scale datasets for reporting and analytics. Analyze data sources for quality and availability, standardize data structures, document technical designs, create unit tests, and support QA testing. The internship provides supervised, practical data engineering experience, mentorship, leadership exposure, and opportunities to present project outcomes.

Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, implement medallion architecture, support data migrations and legacy SSRS decommissioning, develop Power BI data models, and maintain governance, security, and CI/CD practices. The role also supports migration events and modernizes data infrastructure for advanced analytics and reporting.

Designs and maintains scalable cloud data architectures, pipelines, ETL processes, data warehouses, databases, and data models. Ensures data quality, accuracy, security, availability, and consistency across sources. Develops SQL queries for analytics and reporting, and documents pipelines, schemas, architectures, and models. The role requires expertise with Python, Java, Scala, R, SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, and Snowflake.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Design, build, and maintain large-scale ETL pipelines and data warehouses (Redshift) with strong data modeling, governance, and quality controls. Optimize systems for performance and reliability, integrate and deploy AI/ML models, troubleshoot and support Redshift, collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders, and produce technical documentation and knowledge-base articles.

Designs and manages scalable data pipelines, contracts, transformation layers, and analytics models. The role focuses on data governance, observability, lineage, configuration validation, and collaboration with product engineering teams. It requires processing large datasets, integrating cloud and on-premises industrial technologies, and implementing streaming and message-queuing solutions, ideally in cybersecurity or industrial environments.

Designs and maintains scalable data architecture, warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data platforms. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, integrity, governance, accessibility, reliability, and performance; supporting customer onboarding and analytics tools; contributing to architecture and engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex data issues; and participating in on-call rotations. The role collaborates with engineering, product, solutions, business intelligence, and other cross-functional teams in healthcare and social care data environments.