Database Engineering Scientist
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Job overview
The Database Engineering Scientist develops, deploys, and maintains complex databases for analytic processing in production and operational environments. The role monitors and optimizes performance, manages database growth, and collaborates with development teams on application requirements and database programming practices. It also supports database access and integration, protects security and data integrity, documents operating procedures, and contributes to automated data-processing capabilities.
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Full job description
Develop, deploy, and maintain complex databases tailored for analytic processing in production / operational environments. Includes monitoring and optimization of database performance to support user needs and managing database growth. Collaborate with development teams to define application requirements and provide guidance on database programming best practices. Support cross-functional development efforts that require specialized database access and integration. Ensure database security and data integrity through robust protection strategies and rigorous validation protocols. Document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all deployed database environments. Support other efforts related to development, integration and deployment of automated data processing capabilities supporting analytic use cases. Other related functions as assigned.?
How this job compares
Set against the 2,654 open Data Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$104–202K/yr120 salary ranges
- US median$47–52/hr87 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 183 open Data Engineering jobs in Texas and 2,654 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Data Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (2,311 postings).
- Education
- 1,081 of the 2,654 open Data Engineering jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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