Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and maintain production data pipelines and models using SQLMesh, BigQuery, and Python. Improve observability, reliability, and performance; support finance and revenue pipelines; participate in on-call rotation and own features end-to-end.

Build and maintain production-grade data processing systems and foundational infrastructure for enterprise AI. Collaborate with researchers and engineers, deliver end-to-end implementations, transform unstructured data into performant datasets, and use distributed processing frameworks and modern analytics tooling to inform products and strategy.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead data architecture initiatives, design scalable data systems, and oversee data standards across teams while ensuring high-quality data infrastructure and guiding engineering teams.

Sets technical direction and architectural coherence across Netflix’s Ads Data Engineering organization. The role guides cross-domain data system decisions, partners with engineering and business leaders, mentors data engineers, shapes platform-wide initiatives, and advances AI-native data engineering. Responsibilities span modern data foundations, ad-tech data flows, privacy and governance, platform migrations, scalable data products, and collaboration with Ads Platform Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines to turn messy insurance data into clean datasets. Design bronze/silver/fact layers, model and tune Postgres and analytical stores, define KPIs and reconciliation checks, orchestrate observable data jobs, and ensure end-to-end data quality for analytics and AI products.

Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, ensure data quality, support ML workflows, and optimize query performance using various technologies.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing data workflows and pipelines, implementing systems engineering principles, and deploying data streaming technologies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Owns analytics datasets and data products for Netflix’s cloud games infrastructure. Builds scalable pipelines, data models, metrics, dashboards, tooling, and self-service assets from massive telemetry data. Partners with infrastructure engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to improve quality of experience, capacity, and utilization insights. Responsibilities include telemetry and logging, visualization, trustworthy documentation, scalable data solutions, and independently prioritizing high-impact investments.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and models in Databricks and Microsoft Azure. Perform data ingestion, transformation, integration, migration, and modernization across enterprise data sources. Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, reliability, and data quality. Translate business requirements into technical solutions, collaborate with architects and engineers, follow security and governance standards, participate in code reviews, and document data platforms and processes.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize ADABAS database structures and data solutions. Support mainframe data processing (Natural, COBOL, JCL), perform migrations to modern platforms, tune performance, ensure data integrity/security, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with developers, architects, and analysts on modernization, API/cloud integration, and data warehousing initiatives.

Leads the design and delivery of scalable data pipelines, dbt models, orchestration workflows, and analytical data models. Establishes data architecture, engineering standards, quality frameworks, governance, observability, and self-service analytics practices. Partners with stakeholders, leads technical reviews, mentors engineers, supports hiring, oversees analyses, and participates in incident response and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and maintain data lakes, data warehouses, and end-to-end data pipelines for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Lead code and design reviews, write infrastructure-as-code, optimize performance and scalability, participate in data governance, mentor junior engineers, evaluate new technologies, automate tests, collaborate cross-functionally, and join on-call rotation to ensure reliable data delivery.

Designs and maintains pipelines migrating financial data from legacy Oracle databases to Oracle ERP. Develops SQL and PL/SQL transformations, backend integrations, data mappings, reconciliation, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation. Partners with accounting, business, and technical stakeholders to resolve issues and support large-scale financial transformation. The role also involves AI tool adoption, code reviews, solution design, deployment activities, governance, communication, mentoring, and project oversight.

Own the architecture, technical direction, reliability, and evolution of a shared cloud data platform. Lead hands-on development of streaming and batch pipelines using infrastructure-as-code, build governed analytical data products, and establish data contracts, quality, security, lineage, and observability standards. Serve as the final technical escalation point, mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, promote responsible AI-assisted coding, respond to incidents, and communicate technical tradeoffs across stakeholders.

Design and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines and cloud data warehouse models, build Power BI reports, apply AI tools to accelerate data workflows, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics and data governance.

Own end-to-end data engineering for a business domain, including API and other-source ingestion, dbt models, orchestration, data-quality testing, monitoring, documentation, and performance. Build reliable, AI-ready single sources of truth and ensure data freshness, accuracy, traceability, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and the Director of Data, establish engineering patterns, review work, and mentor other engineers.

Design, implement, and optimize Snowflake data storage and ETL solutions. Write and tune SQL, integrate data sources and BI tools, ensure data security and compliance, and collaborate with teams to meet business objectives.

Build and maintain Snowflake and dbt data platforms, including ELT pipelines, tested models, orchestration, monitoring, documentation, access controls, and governance. Optimize performance and costs while ensuring reliable, discoverable data for internal dashboards, client products, and AI/ML use cases. Translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into durable solutions and apply strong software engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD, code review, Python, testing, and alerting.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and optimize data pipelines, ensuring accurate data delivery that informs pricing and market analytics at Alt.

Design, build, and own business-critical data infrastructure, including AWS Glue and Spark pipelines, cloud warehouse or lakehouse systems, orchestration, and Tableau BI platforms. Define event-driven contracts, data models, schemas, observability, and batch or streaming architectures across multi-tenant, multi-region environments. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams while owning production data infrastructure and outcomes end to end.

Design and support ETL, data migration, transformation, import, export, and validation workflows for moving legacy EHR data into athenahealth systems. Build Python and SQL utilities, define source-to-target mappings, support HL7 and FHIR interoperability, validate EHI exports, investigate data quality issues, document processes, and collaborate with product, implementation, operations, sales, and engineering teams in a remote environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable PostgreSQL databases and cloud-native data infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize query and server performance, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, improve observability, troubleshoot production issues, guide schema and application design, evaluate database technologies, and mentor junior engineers to support reliable, secure data-driven applications.

Own the go-to-market data infrastructure, integrating HubSpot, Dreamdata, advertising platforms, PostHog, and website data into BigQuery. Diagnose tracking and attribution discrepancies, configure multi-touch revenue attribution, and build executive dashboards covering channel performance and revenue. Develop ABM workflows using Clay, enrichment, behavioral signals, and AI personalization. Partner with sales and marketing to improve funnel visibility, campaign decisions, and outbound effectiveness.

Build scalable data pipelines, ELT processes, infrastructure, and dimensional data models supporting internal analytics and customer-facing data products. Implement data quality monitoring, auditing, alerting, warehouse optimization, and governed semantic layers for AI and LLM-enabled analytics. Partner with technical and business stakeholders, improve data processes using AI, and deliver reliable metrics from diverse data sources.