Data Engineering Jobs

Palantir Technologies · London

Backend engineers on Palantir's infrastructure teams build the lowest layers of the software stack, spanning database technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data, security and application infrastructure. Day-to-day work includes designing opinionated APIs, tracing performance in high-scale microservice architectures, and automating systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka using Java, Rust and Go.

Palantir Technologies · New York, United States · US$135,000 – US$200,000 pa

Owns reliability and operations for Palantir's production software and infrastructure, handling monitoring, alerting, configuration management, upgrades and deployments across many environments. Automates manual workflows and runbooks, debugs and optimises large-scale distributed systems, and participates in an on-call support rotation. Works closely with forward deployed and product teams on systems design, using Java, Go, Python, JavaScript and LLM/AI tooling.

Matillion · Manchester · £76,000 – £114,000 pa

Owns a core area of an AI agent for data engineering end to end, defining problems, prioritising trade-offs and driving measurable impact. Builds evals to hold agentic behaviour to a high bar, reasons with Engineering about models, context, MCP and orchestration, and partners with Design and GTM. Uses AI tools actively across research, synthesis, prototyping and analysis.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · Newcastle upon Tyne · £84,000 pa

Own and oversee a business-critical enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Azure, acting as technical lead for architecture, scalability, governance and operational excellence. Work with Infrastructure, Security and Architecture teams on CI/CD, automation, monitoring and Infrastructure-as-Code, supporting production and incident management while enabling Data Engineers and shaping platform strategy across Data and AI initiatives.

eFinancialCareers · London · £55,000 – £65,000 pa

Design, build and maintain ETL/data pipelines and secure cloud-based data platforms using Python and SQL, applying DataOps and DevOps practices. Work with architects, analysts and software engineers on high-impact projects supporting UK national security, covering data modelling, orchestration and governance.

eFinancialCareers · London

Embedded within a hedge fund's investment team, building Python research platforms, simulation and backtesting frameworks, data pipelines and tooling for systematic trading strategies. Works daily with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to productionise signals and models, with a focus on testing, CI/CD and scalable system design.