Remote Data Engineer – Cloud & AI for Airlines

United Airlines; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

United Airlines is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Information Technology group in Arizona. The role involves building and maintaining data pipelines and streaming applications using AWS cloud services, PySpark, and SQL to support business analytics and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and IT peers to deliver scalable, reliable data solutions and ensure data quality for operational use.

Qualifications

• Four year degree in software engineering or related STEM field.
• Experience building streaming data applications.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines and streaming workloads.
• Collaborate with data researchers and ML engineers on the data platform.
• Ensure data quality and operational readiness in cloud environments.
• Work with AWS tools such as EC2, S3, IAM, and Lambda.

Skills

Data engineering

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Tools

AWS

EC2

S3

IAM

Lambda

SQL

PySpark

Terraform

Git

JIRA

Job description

United Airlines is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Information Technology group in Arizona. The role involves building and maintaining data pipelines and streaming applications using AWS cloud services, PySpark, and SQL to support business analytics and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and IT peers to deliver scalable, reliable data solutions and ensure data quality for operational use.