Job Description Summary
When you join our team, you will work to define, document, and test a wide variety of transportation data analytics and operations applications. You will learn new skills and stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

The CATT Lab is seeking an early career Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team. This individual will work to design, develop, and support over 40 relational database instances and distributed Cassandra and Hadoop instances. They will apply their knowledge, skills, and experience to create stable, secure, and reliable data platforms supporting custom data analytics applications. They will learn new skills and stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies. If you're looking for complex data problems in the GIS domain to collaboratively solve with a brilliant research and development team, please apply!

Can be 100% remote (US based only)

Physical Demands:
Sedentary work performed in an office environment. Regularly required to communicate and exchange information and to use technology/devices. Position can be 100% remote (US based only)

Minimum qualifications:
B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field
Relevant academic or internship experience with design, development, and administration of data platform solutions
Experience writing ETL scripts and standalone applications in Python and/or Java
Expertise writing and tuning SQL queries
Experience deploying, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading production-level database servers and services

Preferences:
Experience administering PostgreSQL servers, performance tuning, streaming replication, and PgBouncer failover configuration
Experience with non-relational data storage and processing solutions like Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg, Sedona etc.
Experience working with geospatial datasets, using geospatial extensions (such as PostGIS) and querying features.
Experience with Linux (RHEL), including writing robust Bash scripts.
Experience architecting and implementing backup and recovery strategies.
Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
Experience with cloud platforms including AWS and GCP.

Licenses/ Certifications:

Additional Job Details

Required Application Materials:

• Resume/CV
• LinkedIn profile link
• Link to repository (GitHub or similar) to show work
• References upon request

Can this statement be added? "This position requires the employee to maintain a work presence within the United States for the duration of employment, including while performing remote work.

Best Consideration Date: 06/15/2026

Posting Close Date: 08/23/2026

Open Until Filled: Yes

Financial Disclosure Required
No

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Department
ENGR-Civil-Center for Advanced Transportation Technology

Worker Sub-Type
Faculty Regular

Salary Range
$80,000-$100,00

Benefits Summary

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