Top Data Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

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 operate a Kubernetes-based data platform spanning lakehouse storage, ingestion, transformation, entity resolution, lineage, and data quality. Develop batch and streaming pipelines across heterogeneous and disconnected environments, create full-stack tools for subject matter experts, and expose documented APIs for applications and AI agents. Collaborate with product, AI/ML, infrastructure, mission partners, and field teams while mentoring engineers and supporting secure, air-gapped deployments.

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 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.

Build and maintain data environments in AWS and Snowflake by identifying, preparing, manipulating, and modeling structured and unstructured datasets. Evaluate datasets for reporting and modeling, use data preparation tools such as Coalesce, resolve data quality issues, and advise stakeholders on data systems and concepts.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Designs and productionizes hybrid knowledge graph solutions for healthcare and clinical data using LPG and RDF technologies. Builds FHIR transformation and ingestion pipelines, implements ontology mappings, entity linking, identifiers, provenance, validation, and graph queries with Cypher or SPARQL. Collaborates with ontology, terminology, FHIR, clinical, and data engineering teams, while contributing to architecture reviews, code reviews, testing, and engineering best practices.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

Build customer-facing data products for the single-family rental market. Responsibilities include architecting real estate data models, designing reliable data pipelines and workflows, shaping data platform architecture, establishing engineering standards, and developing real estate domain expertise. The role partners with data science and product teams and requires leadership in scalable data engineering.

Designs and implements scalable data pipelines, cloud data platforms, storage solutions, and analytics infrastructure. The role focuses on Snowflake and AWS architecture, migrating legacy systems to cloud environments, developing Python and SQL data-processing logic, orchestrating workflows, and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD. The engineer also contributes to data governance, quality, observability, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and technical leadership.

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 scalable data ingestion, transformation, entity resolution, and integration pipelines for a cybersecurity ontology and knowledge graph platform. Design batch and real-time distributed systems processing billions of security events, ensure data quality and governance, model entities and relationships, and enable AI agents through structured security knowledge and ontology APIs.

Lead enterprise data engineering efforts supporting defense missions. Responsibilities include prioritizing technical tasks, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, translating government requirements into scalable data architectures, developing Databricks ETL/ELT pipelines with Python, PySpark, and SQL, troubleshooting pipeline performance and reliability, and documenting systems. The role collaborates with government stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, analysts, and technical teams to deliver secure, high-throughput data platforms and actionable insights.

Designs and maintains scalable Azure data pipelines and ETL/ELT solutions across data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, streaming platforms, and enterprise sources. Builds integrations using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, and related services; applies security, governance, monitoring, and performance optimization practices. Develops Power BI dashboards, reports, data models, and visualizations, while supporting analytics and AI/ML use cases. Collaborates in Agile teams and automates deployments through DevOps and CI/CD practices.

Designs and automates data validation, profiling, testing, monitoring, and quality frameworks for multi-source cloud data. The role uses Azure Synapse, Databricks, SQL, Python, Scala, Collibra, and Profisee to detect anomalies, enforce governance, and improve data reliability. Responsibilities include developing automated test plans, analyzing structured and unstructured datasets, supporting Azure data engineering workflows, and collaborating with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and product teams. A Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination may be required.

Designs and operates data infrastructure for a clinical trial platform. Builds pipelines that extract, normalize, validate, and link information from clinical documents and publications into Aurora and GraphDB. Develops embeddings, vector search, RAG workflows, data-serving APIs, lineage tracking, and regulatory audit trails. The role also requires AWS-based orchestration, clinical data quality controls, biomedical knowledge graph modeling, and deployment automation using infrastructure-as-code and containerization.

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.

Designs and delivers backend systems, APIs, data models, ETL workflows, data interactions, and user interfaces. Optimizes data operations for scalability, performance, integrity, and security while contributing to automated testing and CI/CD. Requires strong Python and Apache Spark experience, distributed computing knowledge, Agile experience, and data analysis skills. The role supports healthcare-focused digital services in a remote-first environment.

Lead Cohere’s Data Foundation pillar, managing a team responsible for the full data lifecycle. Own the roadmap, BigQuery warehouse, Airflow and Cloud Run orchestration, dbt modeling, Looker and API serving, Terraform infrastructure, governance, access controls, reliability, incident response, and data freshness SLAs. Lead development of an agentic analytics platform and evaluation framework, establish company-wide analytics standards, and partner with product, engineering, security, legal, and business teams.

Architect and lead enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure using Spark, Databricks, and cloud technologies. Build scalable data models and dimensional schemas, establish governance and data quality frameworks, optimize performance and reliability, and implement monitoring. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, contribute to platform strategy, troubleshoot complex failures, and support hiring and team development.