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Data Engineer

This role involves building and optimizing the data infrastructure that powers analytics, machine learning, and operational decision-making across AI-focused organizations. Data engineers in this position design scalable pipelines to ingest data from infrastructure, product systems, and business operations, then transform that raw data into reliable datasets that serve analysts, data scientists, and product teams. What sets this role apart is its foundation-level focus—rather than analyzing data or building models, these engineers architect the systems, data models, and warehouses that make all downstream work possible. They typically report into data or platform leadership and work cross-functionally with product, engineering, finance, and operations teams to translate business requirements into production-grade data infrastructure that scales with organizational growth.

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Data EngineerSenior Data EngineerStaff Data Warehouse Engineer
Open Jobs34
Companies Hiring24
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Designing and building scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing structured and unstructured data from multiple sources

95%

Implementing ETL/ELT processes and orchestration workflows to transform raw data into analytical formats

93%

Architecting and managing data warehouses and data lakes with focus on storage optimization, retrieval performance, and lifecycle management

92%

Writing production-quality SQL and Python code for data processing and transformation

91%

Establishing and monitoring data quality frameworks including testing, validation, and observability systems

90%

Designing and optimizing data models including dimensional modeling, star schemas, and appropriate normalization strategies

88%

Designing data governance, access controls, and security measures including PII handling and compliance standards

85%

Building and maintaining dashboards, reporting systems, and semantic layers for business intelligence and analytics

85%

Automating manual data processes and optimizing workflows for performance and cost efficiency

82%

Building observability and monitoring infrastructure for data pipelines including alerting on anomalies and data drift

81%

Implementing CI/CD practices and IT General Controls to ensure reliability and security of data flows

80%
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Building data products and metrics that power machine learning training pipelines and model improvement

80%

Designing privacy-first data architectures and implementing controls for sensitive employee and user data

78%

Designing data infrastructure for AI/ML workloads including training data preparation and quality evaluation

75%

Implementing master data management patterns including golden records, deduplication, and identity resolution

72%

Designing and operating medallion architecture patterns for structured data transformation (bronze/silver/gold)

70%

Building streaming data pipelines and real-time data processing systems

68%

Managing reverse ETL and data activation to push insights back into operational systems

65%
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Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders including business teams, analysts, data scientists, and engineers to translate requirements into data solutions

89%

Translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable datasets, metrics, and self-serve data products

83%

Communicating technical concepts clearly through documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing with team members

82%

Mentoring team members and establishing best practices, standards, and code review processes

75%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonvery high
SQLvery high
C++low
Golow
Javalow
Rlow
$ tech --framework
dbthigh
Apache Kafkamoderate
Apache Sparkmoderate
PySparkmoderate
Apache Beamlow
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Snowflakehigh
Dataikumoderate
GitHubmoderate
Palantir Foundrylow
Salesforcelow
Workdaylow
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Airflowhigh
GitHub Actionsmoderate
Dagsterlow
Grafanalow
Metabaselow
OpenTelemetrylow
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Apache Iceberglow
Parquetlow
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Open Jobs

34 open Data Engineer jobs across 24 companies.

Gong1d
Senior Data Engineer
Dublin·Data & Analytics
MongoDB1w
Staff Data Engineer
Gurugram·Data & Analytics
ElevenLabs1w
Data Engineer
United Kingdom·Data & Analytics
OpenAI1w
Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation
Seattle·Data & Analytics
MongoDB2w
Software Engineer 3
Gurugram·Data & Analytics
CuspAI2w
Data Engineer
London, UK·Data & Analytics
Nebius2w
Data Engineering Team Lead (Agentic Search)
Israel·Data & Analytics
Nscale2w
Data Engineer (Forward Deployed)
London·Data & Analytics
xAI1mo
Data Engineer
Palo Alto, CA·Data & Analytics
Legora1mo
Data Engineer
Stockholm HQ·Data & Analytics
Graphcore1mo
Lead Data Engineer
Bristol, UK·Data & Analytics
Dataiku1mo
Data Engineer II
Netherlands, Amsterdam; Netherlands, Remote; Spain, Remote; United Kingdom, London; United Kingdom, Remote·Data & Analytics
Dataiku1mo
Data Engineer
Germany, Berlin - Remote; Germany, Remote; Netherlands, Amsterdam; Netherlands, Remote; Spain, Remote; United Kingdom, London; United Kingdom, Remote·Data & Analytics
Notion1mo
Data Engineer, People Analytics
San Francisco, California·Data & Analytics
Nscale1mo
Data Engineer - Seattle, WA
US·Data & Analytics
Nscale1mo
Data Engineer
US·Data & Analytics
Nscale1mo
Data Engineer
US·Data & Analytics
Figma1mo
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Data & Analytics
Figma1mo
Data Engineer
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Data & Analytics
Nscale1mo
Data Engineer (Forward Deployed)
London·Data & Analytics