Remote Senior Subsurface Data Engineer

Placements24; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Professional training & conferences

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Subsurface Data Engineer for a fully remote role. You will design and optimize data pipelines for seismic, well logs, and production data, ensuring QA/QC and governance across diverse subsurface datasets.

Collaboration with geoscientists and engineers is key to delivering insights for exploration and production activities. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data engineering with subsurface oil & gas experience, strong SQL/NoSQL, ETL/ELT, Python, and cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Geosciences, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data engineering with a subsurface focus in oil & gas.
• Strong SQL/NoSQL, data warehousing concepts, and ETL/ELT proficiency.
• Experience with Python or R for data manipulation and analysis.
• Familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP and their data services.
• Knowledge of LAS, SEG-Y, PPDM formats.
• Experience with data viz tools Tableau/Power BI.
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and remote work capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for subsurface data (seismic, well logs, core, production).
• Implement data quality control and governance for subsurface data.
• Create and manage metadata standards and governance policies.
• Integrate diverse datasets into a unified data environment.
• Optimize database structures and query performance for subsurface data.
• Collaborate with geoscientists and engineers to meet data needs.
• Implement data visualization and reporting solutions for exploration and production teams.
• Automate data management tasks and workflows to improve efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging data engineering technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Subsurface data engineering

SQL

NoSQL databases

ETL/ELT processes

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Subsurface data formats (LAS, SEG-Y,PP

Tableau / Power BI

Remote work / independent

Big data (Spark/Hadoop)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Geosciences, or related field

Tools

Apache Spark

Hadoop

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Subsurface Data Engineer for a fully remote role. You will design and optimize data pipelines for seismic, well logs, and production data, ensuring QA/QC and governance across diverse subsurface datasets.

Collaboration with geoscientists and engineers is key to delivering insights for exploration and production activities. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data engineering with subsurface oil & gas experience, strong SQL/NoSQL, ETL/ELT, Python, and cloud