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Remote Data Science Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like technology, financial services, and healthcare, at remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams that hire from anywhere. Employers hiring remotely right now include ZS Associates, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Honor. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About AllTrails
AllTrails is the app for exploring the outdoors. We help people spend more time outside by connecting them to their next adventure. Home to the world’s largest outdoor community, with members and trails around the globe, you can find AllTrails in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and at alltrails.com. Every day, our team works to get more people outside and help our members have better experiences on the trail. We lead with our values—positivity, innovation, humility, adaptability, inclusivity, and stewardship—in everything we do. Join us! This is a U.S. based remote position. While this role does not require in-person attendance, we have a strong preference for candidates based in or near one of these cities: San Francisco CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Denver CO, and New York NY. Being in one of these cities creates opportunities to connect with teammates through Trail Days, co-working sessions, and local gatherings while still having the flexibility to work remotely. San Francisco employees are highly encouraged to come to the office one day per week.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Maps & Data, this role will lead the AllTrails’ Data Science & Engineering team, a small and centralized engineering function that cross-functionally supports the business across product pods and partner teams including: data analytics, finance, and marketing. The team’s scope spans scalable data infrastructure, data governance, reliability, compliance, and the development and productionization of machine learning, AI, and algorithmic solutions that power internal operations and member-facing product experiences.
Due to high candidate volume and to ensure our hiring team has sufficient time to give every application the attention it deserves, we have set a closing date of August 20th for this position.
What you'll be doing
Team Leadership & People Management
- Manage & Grow the Team: Lead, hire, and coach a team of data engineers and applied data scientists while fostering team health, professional development, and high performance through active coaching and performance management.
Strategic Business Partnership & AI Strategy
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical requirements, prioritize initiatives, and balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery goals.
- Domain & AI Innovation: Serve as a key thought partner on leveraging data, AI, and automation to enhance AllTrails' internal productivity, trail content, map quality, and member personalization experiences.
Data Platform & Engineering Execution
- Pipeline & ML Architecture: Drive the architecture and delivery of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, while scaling the productionization of ML models and algorithmic systems into dependable engineering solutions.
- System Operations & Reliability: Oversee orchestration, transformation, alerting, and data flow across the organization—troubleshooting complex performance bottlenecks and system failures to ensure high system uptime.
Data Governance, Democratization & Platform Operations
- Governance & Self-Service: Champion data reliability, quality, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency while building tools for data cataloging, documentation, and self-service to democratize data assets.
- Velocity & Continuous Improvement: Create organizational leverage by improving time-to-insight, debugging speed, and deployment velocity, while continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to elevate data capabilities.
What You Bring
Team & People Leadership
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years managing data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams with a focus on coaching senior ICs, career development, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture.
- Working Style & Values: An adaptable, self-motivated leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, humility, empathy, and a passion for the outdoors.
Technical Architecture & Infrastructure
- Platform & Governance: Hands-on experience managing GCP data infrastructure, enforcing data governance, and maintaining production-grade data access patterns, storage, caching, and optimization standards.
- Modern Data Stack: Extensive proficiency in transforming high-volume datasets in columnar SQL warehouses (BigQuery preferred, or Snowflake) using ELT tools (Dataform, dbt) and orchestrators like Apache Airflow.
- Pipeline & Processing: Proven expertise designing complex SQL/Python pipelines using parallelized processing frameworks (Dataflow, Spark, or similar) and core data modeling techniques (dimensional, star schema).
Engineering Practices & AI/ML Ops
- DevOps & SDLC: Deep familiarity with software engineering best practices, including Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), code reviews, and monthly on-call rotation.
- Applied AI/ML: Track record of guiding teams through the full ML lifecycle (MLOps) to support applied use cases like recommendation, ranking, personalization, and classification engines.
Stakeholder Management & Execution
- Cross-Functional Ownership: Skilled at leading across both platform foundations and applied data products, with the business judgment to prioritize competing stakeholder needs.
- End-to-End Delivery: Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs, collaborating effectively with stakeholders to own projects from inception to completion.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with geospatial data, maps, tiling, graph databases, and/or routing
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment (GCP + AWS)
- Experience working at a B2C company
- Skilled at managing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive and equitable compensation, including ownership through equity and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage to support your physical and mental well-being
- Unlimited PTO in addition to company holidays
- Dedicated time once a month to test and improve our product through company-wide no-meeting days
- Fully paid parental leave to birthing and non-birthing parents
- 401k Match & access to financial wellness resources through Origin
- Remote work stipend to help you design a comfortable and productive home office
- Annual learning stipend to invest in your long-term professional growth and skills
- Exclusive discounts on our subscriptions and merchandise for you and your friends & family
- An authentic investment in you as a human being and a professional—we value your identity as much as your output
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. AllTrails will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act. AllTrails participates in the E-Verify program for all remote locations.
By submitting my application, I acknowledge and agree to AllTrails' Job Applicant Privacy Notice. All official recruiting communications from AllTrails will come from an name@alltrails.com email address. Please review sender details carefully, and do not engage with anyone asking for payment or sensitive financial information as part of the hiring process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
This range represents our good faith estimate for a successful candidate’s starting base salary. Final offers are determined by a blend of factors including specialized skills, experience, and relevant credentials. In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes an equity stake in the company and a performance-based bonus program.
About AllTrails
AllTrails is the app for exploring the outdoors. We help people spend more time outside by connecting them to their next adventure. Home to the world’s largest outdoor community, with members and trails around the globe, you can find AllTrails in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and at alltrails.com. Every day, our team works to get more people outside and help our members have better experiences on the trail. We lead with our values—positivity, innovation, humility, adaptability, inclusivity, and stewardship—in everything we do. Join us! This is a U.S. based remote position. While this role does not require in-person attendance, we have a strong preference for candidates based in or near one of these cities: San Francisco CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Denver CO, and New York NY. Being in one of these cities creates opportunities to connect with teammates through Trail Days, co-working sessions, and local gatherings while still having the flexibility to work remotely. San Francisco employees are highly encouraged to come to the office one day per week.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Maps & Data, this role will lead the AllTrails’ Data Science & Engineering team, a small and centralized engineering function that cross-functionally supports the business across product pods and partner teams including: data analytics, finance, and marketing. The team’s scope spans scalable data infrastructure, data governance, reliability, compliance, and the development and productionization of machine learning, AI, and algorithmic solutions that power internal operations and member-facing product experiences.
Due to high candidate volume and to ensure our hiring team has sufficient time to give every application the attention it deserves, we have set a closing date of August 20th for this position.
What you'll be doing
Team Leadership & People Management
- Manage & Grow the Team: Lead, hire, and coach a team of data engineers and applied data scientists while fostering team health, professional development, and high performance through active coaching and performance management.
Strategic Business Partnership & AI Strategy
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical requirements, prioritize initiatives, and balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery goals.
- Domain & AI Innovation: Serve as a key thought partner on leveraging data, AI, and automation to enhance AllTrails' internal productivity, trail content, map quality, and member personalization experiences.
Data Platform & Engineering Execution
- Pipeline & ML Architecture: Drive the architecture and delivery of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, while scaling the productionization of ML models and algorithmic systems into dependable engineering solutions.
- System Operations & Reliability: Oversee orchestration, transformation, alerting, and data flow across the organization—troubleshooting complex performance bottlenecks and system failures to ensure high system uptime.
Data Governance, Democratization & Platform Operations
- Governance & Self-Service: Champion data reliability, quality, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency while building tools for data cataloging, documentation, and self-service to democratize data assets.
- Velocity & Continuous Improvement: Create organizational leverage by improving time-to-insight, debugging speed, and deployment velocity, while continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to elevate data capabilities.
What You Bring
Team & People Leadership
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years managing data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams with a focus on coaching senior ICs, career development, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture.
- Working Style & Values: An adaptable, self-motivated leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, humility, empathy, and a passion for the outdoors.
Technical Architecture & Infrastructure
- Platform & Governance: Hands-on experience managing GCP data infrastructure, enforcing data governance, and maintaining production-grade data access patterns, storage, caching, and optimization standards.
- Modern Data Stack: Extensive proficiency in transforming high-volume datasets in columnar SQL warehouses (BigQuery preferred, or Snowflake) using ELT tools (Dataform, dbt) and orchestrators like Apache Airflow.
- Pipeline & Processing: Proven expertise designing complex SQL/Python pipelines using parallelized processing frameworks (Dataflow, Spark, or similar) and core data modeling techniques (dimensional, star schema).
Engineering Practices & AI/ML Ops
- DevOps & SDLC: Deep familiarity with software engineering best practices, including Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), code reviews, and monthly on-call rotation.
- Applied AI/ML: Track record of guiding teams through the full ML lifecycle (MLOps) to support applied use cases like recommendation, ranking, personalization, and classification engines.
Stakeholder Management & Execution
- Cross-Functional Ownership: Skilled at leading across both platform foundations and applied data products, with the business judgment to prioritize competing stakeholder needs.
- End-to-End Delivery: Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs, collaborating effectively with stakeholders to own projects from inception to completion.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with geospatial data, maps, tiling, graph databases, and/or routing
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment (GCP + AWS)
- Experience working at a B2C company
- Skilled at managing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive and equitable compensation, including ownership through equity and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage to support your physical and mental well-being
- Unlimited PTO in addition to company holidays
- Dedicated time once a month to test and improve our product through company-wide no-meeting days
- Fully paid parental leave to birthing and non-birthing parents
- 401k Match & access to financial wellness resources through Origin
- Remote work stipend to help you design a comfortable and productive home office
- Annual learning stipend to invest in your long-term professional growth and skills
- Exclusive discounts on our subscriptions and merchandise for you and your friends & family
- An authentic investment in you as a human being and a professional—we value your identity as much as your output
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. AllTrails will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act. AllTrails participates in the E-Verify program for all remote locations.
By submitting my application, I acknowledge and agree to AllTrails' Job Applicant Privacy Notice. All official recruiting communications from AllTrails will come from an name@alltrails.com email address. Please review sender details carefully, and do not engage with anyone asking for payment or sensitive financial information as part of the hiring process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
This range represents our good faith estimate for a successful candidate’s starting base salary. Final offers are determined by a blend of factors including specialized skills, experience, and relevant credentials. In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes an equity stake in the company and a performance-based bonus program.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Retail
- Insurance
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote data science engineer jobs.
- Proficiency in Python with experience building production-grade data and ML pipelines
- Hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Flink
- Experience deploying and monitoring machine learning models in cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling including feature stores, model registries, and workflow orchestrators
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, data engineering, statistics, or a related field
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
Tips for Your Remote Data Science Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote data science engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your skills and apply directly without sorting through listings mixed with on-site or hybrid work.
Build a portfolio that shows end-to-end ownership
Remote employers can't watch you work, so your portfolio does the talking. Publish projects that go from raw data to a deployed model or production pipeline, with clear documentation explaining your decisions, tradeoffs, and results.
Prove async communication in your application
Distributed teams run on written communication. Write detailed, structured cover notes and include a README-style project summary in your application materials that shows you can explain technical work clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike.
Target remote-first companies with distributed engineering teams
Remote-first technology companies and distributed product teams hire data science engineers remotely as a default, not an exception. Look for companies whose engineering blogs, job postings, and team pages describe fully distributed or async-first cultures rather than hybrid arrangements.
Remote Data Science Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote data science engineer job?
Remote data science engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate technical depth and independent execution without in-person oversight. Remote-first companies and distributed product teams screen heavily for async written communication, self-directed project management, and hands-on fluency with tools like Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud ML platforms. A portfolio of end-to-end projects, clear documentation, and evidence you've shipped models that drove measurable outcomes gives you a concrete edge over candidates who lack remote work examples.
Which companies hire remote data science engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote data science engineers include ZS Associates, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Honor, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote data science engineer roles concentrate at remote-first technology companies, distributed fintech and healthtech teams, and enterprise software firms that run globally distributed engineering organizations.
Can you get a remote data science engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level data science engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to contribute independently from day one without on-site mentorship. Early-career candidates who break in typically target remote-first startups, build a public portfolio of end-to-end ML or data pipeline projects, and demonstrate strong async communication through thorough documentation and clear write-ups. Open-source contributions and a completed capstone that shows production-ready thinking open more doors than a degree alone.
Do you need a degree for remote data science engineer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh a strong project portfolio, demonstrated proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML frameworks, and evidence of shipped work more heavily than a specific degree. A relevant bachelor's or master's in computer science, statistics, or a related field still appears in most job postings, but candidates without one regularly compete successfully by showing real results, published work, and measurable contributions to data or ML systems.
Which industries hire the most remote data science engineers?
Most remote data science engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Retail, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors hire data science engineers remotely because their core products, research, and analytics infrastructure are fully digital and can be built and maintained by distributed teams working across time zones.
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