
Data Engineer
GovWorx
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines and workflows to support AI and analytics use cases
- Manage and optimize structured and semi-structured data using MySQL, Redshift, OpenSearch, and related datastores
- Evaluate and implement new database technologies and AWS-native tools to support scalability and performance
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to ensure data needs are met across systems
- Build internal tooling for data access, transformation, and quality monitoring
- Support infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation to maintain high system reliability
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering or related backend/infrastructure roles
- Proficiency in working with relational and non-relational datastores (e.g., MySQL, OpenSearch)
- Strong experience with AWS tools such as S3, Glue, Lambda, or similar
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data
- Experience with Python for data processing (pandas, PySpark, or similar)
- Comfort with contributing to production codebase
- Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and version control (e.g., Git)
- Must pass FBI fingerprint and background check in multiple states.
- Nice to Have:
- Experience supporting ML/AI pipelines or working closely with data science teams
- Experience with Sisense or similar embedded BI/analytics platforms
- Knowledge of DBT or similar SQL transformation frameworks
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Benefits
- Benefits and Flexible Time Off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLELTPythonpandasPySparkMySQLOpenSearchAWSDBT
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detail