Data Engineer

GovWorx

24d • Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for an experienced, impact-driven Data Engineer to join GovWorx, a company at the forefront of Responsible AI for public safety. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering AI solutions that support 911, Law Enforcement, and Fire/EMS teams. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in data infrastructure, cloud systems, and a passion for building reliable, scalable pipelines that power AI systems in production.

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 Haves

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Contribute to cutting-edge AI projects that directly support public safety
• Be a key influencer in product and model strategy at a growing AI company
• Collaborate with a high-performing team across data science, product, and engineering
• Help shape the future of Responsible AI through mission-driven work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed