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Nomic
senior
Full-time
English
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Nousresearch

Posted 8 hours ago

Product Analytics Engineer

Full-time
English
python sql typescript
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Nebius

Posted 10 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer

senior
Full-time
English
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Motional
Full-time
English
$172K – $229K / year
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Motional
senior
Full-time
English
$149K – $199K / year
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Metabase

Posted 20 hours ago

Analytics Engineer

Full-time
English
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Eve

Posted 21 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer

senior
Full-time
English
$185K – $210K / year
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Prolific

Posted 1 day ago

Data Engineer

Full-time
English
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Deepgram
senior
Full-time
English
python sql Vapi dbt Speech Recognition +1 more
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Wayve

Posted 2 days ago

Data Engineer, App SW

Full-time
English
machine learning python sql machine learning spark +1 more
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Career context

Every AI system starts with a data pipeline

Data engineers build and run the systems that move, clean and model data: ingestion, ETL and ELT pipelines, warehouses and lakehouses, streaming, and the quality checks that make analytics and machine learning trustworthy. AI has made the role more important, not less — models are only as good as the data that reaches them.

The roles below come from data infrastructure companies, AI labs and product teams. They range from analytics engineering (SQL, dbt, modelling for analysts) to platform work (Spark, Kafka, orchestration, cost and reliability at scale). Read each listing to see which side it leans to.

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How to find a data engineer job on RemoteAI

Data engineering pays close to software engineering, with a premium for streaming, platform and ML-data experience. Each listing shows the range the employer published.

01

Describe pipelines you own

Volume, sources, freshness, failure handling. "Ingests 2 TB/day from 40 sources with 15-minute freshness" says more than a tool list.

02

Show data quality habits

Tests, contracts, monitoring and alerting. Teams hire data engineers who prevent bad data, not only move it.

03

Apply on the employer's page

Each listing links to the official application. Mention the warehouse and orchestration tools you match.

Profile guide

How to stand out as a data engineer

Not all profiles get responses. These are the signals that separate candidates who get interviews from those who don't.

SQL and data modelling

Dimensional models, dbt, clear and fast SQL — the base of every data engineering interview.

Orchestration

Airflow, Dagster, Prefect: scheduling, retries, backfills and dependencies done right.

Streaming

Kafka, Flink or Spark Streaming experience is rarer and better paid.

Cloud warehouses

Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift — including cost control.

Data for ML

Feature pipelines, training datasets, embeddings and vector stores connect data engineering to AI teams.

Reliability

SLAs, lineage, incident handling. Pipelines that run quietly for months are the goal.

FAQ

Questions about remote data engineer jobs

Everything you need to know before applying for your first data engineer role.

A data engineer builds the systems that collect, move, clean and store data so analysts, products and machine learning models can use it — pipelines, warehouses, streaming and data quality checks.

Analytics engineers focus on modelling data inside the warehouse for analysis, mostly with SQL and dbt. Data engineers usually own ingestion, infrastructure and platform reliability. Many listings mix both.

SQL and Python first, then a cloud warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster), dbt, and for platform roles Spark or Kafka.

Yes. AI teams depend on training data, feature pipelines and retrieval data. Data engineers who understand ML data needs move naturally into ML platform and AI infrastructure roles.

Yes. Profiles, browsing and applying are free, with no cut of your salary.

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