Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Support design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure. Assist with ETL/ELT workflows, data ingestion, cleaning, validation, modeling, and warehousing. Document processes and collaborate with data teams to support analytics use cases.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, and processing systems for analytics and business intelligence. Ensure data quality, security, reliability, and cost efficiency while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and engineers. Maintain technical documentation, support Databricks solutions, and apply emerging data engineering technologies. The role requires strong programming, SQL, ETL, orchestration, data modeling, cloud, and big data expertise.

Architects and leads enterprise data engineering platforms, including scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, and AI/ML data systems. Establishes engineering standards, governance, monitoring, data quality, security, and schema management practices. Designs AI agents using LLMs, partners across business and infrastructure teams, and makes high-impact architectural decisions for reliable, secure, multi-region data environments.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines for mission partners. Uses AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions to integrate, migrate, transform, and validate data. Develops data models, schemas, queries, and production-ready datasets while collaborating with analytics and business teams. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, data governance, DevOps workflows, Databricks, and real-time streaming architectures.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Lead pre-sales data engineering engagements to design and implement scalable lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Advise customers on data strategy, governance, pipelines, AI-ready foundations, migrations, and translate technical solutions into business outcomes while supporting sales and partner enablement.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.

Lead architecture, development, and optimization of a cloud-native data platform. Design high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, optimize data processing across AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, and Athena, and implement Iceberg-based data management. Establish security, privacy, observability, and DataOps practices while mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, collaborating with data science teams, and delivering scalable petabyte-level data infrastructure.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AWS-based data and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI platforms. Develop data lake pipelines, observability systems, agent-enablement tooling, and production MLOps/LLMOps capabilities. Own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and design decisions, optimize reliability, scalability, security, and cost, and collaborate with AWS Professional Services, client teams, and junior engineers.

Build and operate production pipelines for legal records from PACER, court systems, opinions, PDFs, scans, XML, and HTML. Develop LLM-assisted extraction workflows, validate data quality, optimize SQL, and support RAG and semantic search products. Manage AWS S3 and RDS systems within security guardrails while collaborating with engineering teams. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, legal data experience, document extraction expertise, and autonomous problem-solving with large, messy datasets.

Build and maintain data pipelines for network and operational telemetry, integrate DataMiner and other monitoring systems, create Power BI dashboards, configure monitoring metrics and alerts, automate reporting, analyze network performance and recovery events, and translate technical findings into actionable insights for technical and executive stakeholders.

The Data Engineer will develop and maintain data pipelines, perform data extraction and transformation, and support data analytics across the enterprise.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on Databricks for federal missions. Responsibilities include developing Spark and Delta Lake solutions, managing clusters and workflows, implementing Unity Catalog governance and security, optimizing ETL/ELT processes, integrating CI/CD, supporting machine learning and advanced analytics, monitoring data quality, and collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders.

Designs and maintains data warehouse infrastructure, semantic and dimensional models, metrics layers, dashboards, reporting, and secure data pipelines. Builds governed self-service analytics in Sigma, Power BI, and Databricks; defines KPIs and data standards; implements row-level security and Entra ID controls; supports data quality, observability, AI/ML use cases, and BI adoption. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders in an Agile-Scrum environment.

Build and maintain production data ingestion pipelines, transformation models, warehouses, and schemas for PerfectServe’s data platform. Deploy reliable, tested pipelines using idempotency and data-quality checks, apply dimensional and medallion modeling, participate in design reviews, and document owned pipelines and runbooks. The role requires SQL, programming experience, dbt or similar transformation tools, cloud data warehouse experience, ELT orchestration, AWS knowledge, and a strong data-testing mindset.

Design, build, and own business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure across warehouses, orchestration, BI, and multiple regions. Develop AWS Glue and Spark jobs, data models, event contracts, observability, and batch or streaming architectures. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams, support Federal workloads, and operate production data platforms in government cloud environments.