Senior Staff Data Engineer Jobs in Texas
Senior Staff Data Engineer jobs in Texas are in strong demand, with the state's energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors all competing for experienced engineers who can architect and scale enterprise data platforms. Austin, Dallas, and Houston lead hiring activity, with established employers like Dell Technologies, JPMorgan Chase, and ExxonMobil consistently recruiting at this level. The most sought-after specialties in Texas are cloud data platform engineering, real-time pipeline architecture, and data mesh implementation. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Position Description
The Senior Staff Engineer in Availability and Incident Management will engineer solutions and empower the engineering community with automated processes, data-driven insights, and technical tools that reduce incident recurrence, improve system reliability, and accelerate incident resolution. This role will be heavily centered around building automation platforms to streamline postmortem workflows, eliminate manual tracking, and provide fast feedback loops for incident prevention. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that increases the velocity of incident resolution, reduces repeat incidents, and unlocks new reliability engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge in incident forensics, root cause analysis, automation platforms, distributed systems, observability, and data analytics.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
- Lead the strategy and execution for incident retrospective and correction of error (COE) processes across the engineering organization
- Help conduct deep technical root cause analysis and incident forensics across distributed systems using observability data, logs, metrics, and traces
- Establish continuous improvement loops through automated trend analysis, pattern recognition algorithms, and predictive analytics
- Design, code, and deploy automation platforms and self-service tools using Python, Go, Java, or C# that scale incident retrospective workflows and eliminate manual tracking
- Build production-grade data pipelines, analytics systems, and real-time dashboards to measure incident trends, COE effectiveness, and action item completion rates
- Write code for workflow automation, integrations with observability platforms, and APIs that connect incident management tools across the engineering ecosystem
- Leverage SQL and NoSQL databases to store, query, and analyze incident data at scale using Azure tools and cloud-native services
- Develop and maintain systems that ensure rigorous follow-through on action items, remediation plans, and preventive measures with automated tracking
- Partner with service engineering teams to implement preventive measures and architectural improvements based on incident patterns
- Present data-driven insights and incident trend analysis to leadership and engineering teams to drive preventive action
- Influence and educate leadership on incident patterns, prevention strategies, and reliability best practices
- Mentor engineers on coding best practices, automation techniques, and strengthen technical expertise across the engineering community
- Stay current with industry advances in SRE, observability, incident management, and automation; educate teams on emerging practices
Qualifications
- Experience building automation platforms and self-service tools for workflow management, analytics, or engineering productivity
- Fluency in at least two modern languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience building microservices architectures, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience with data pipelines, analytics platforms, and visualization tools for operational metrics and KPIs
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, CosmosDB) for data storage and analytics
- Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK) and distributed systems monitoring, logging, and tracing
- Experience with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience writing workflow automation code (YAML pipelines, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- Knowledge of retrospective facilitation, continuous improvement processes, and blameless culture principles
- Strong architecture and design skills with ability to influence engineering direction and technical roadmap
- Experience solving complex analytical problems with data-driven approaches
- Proven ability to partner with cross-functional engineering teams and drive systemic improvements
- Excellent communication skills with ability to present technical insights to leadership and influence decision-making
- Experience leveraging GenAI or LLMs is a plus
Experience
- 10+ years of professional platform development or general development experience
- 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $260,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Position Description
The Senior Staff Engineer in Availability and Incident Management will engineer solutions and empower the engineering community with automated processes, data-driven insights, and technical tools that reduce incident recurrence, improve system reliability, and accelerate incident resolution. This role will be heavily centered around building automation platforms to streamline postmortem workflows, eliminate manual tracking, and provide fast feedback loops for incident prevention. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that increases the velocity of incident resolution, reduces repeat incidents, and unlocks new reliability engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge in incident forensics, root cause analysis, automation platforms, distributed systems, observability, and data analytics.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
- Lead the strategy and execution for incident retrospective and correction of error (COE) processes across the engineering organization
- Help conduct deep technical root cause analysis and incident forensics across distributed systems using observability data, logs, metrics, and traces
- Establish continuous improvement loops through automated trend analysis, pattern recognition algorithms, and predictive analytics
- Design, code, and deploy automation platforms and self-service tools using Python, Go, Java, or C# that scale incident retrospective workflows and eliminate manual tracking
- Build production-grade data pipelines, analytics systems, and real-time dashboards to measure incident trends, COE effectiveness, and action item completion rates
- Write code for workflow automation, integrations with observability platforms, and APIs that connect incident management tools across the engineering ecosystem
- Leverage SQL and NoSQL databases to store, query, and analyze incident data at scale using Azure tools and cloud-native services
- Develop and maintain systems that ensure rigorous follow-through on action items, remediation plans, and preventive measures with automated tracking
- Partner with service engineering teams to implement preventive measures and architectural improvements based on incident patterns
- Present data-driven insights and incident trend analysis to leadership and engineering teams to drive preventive action
- Influence and educate leadership on incident patterns, prevention strategies, and reliability best practices
- Mentor engineers on coding best practices, automation techniques, and strengthen technical expertise across the engineering community
- Stay current with industry advances in SRE, observability, incident management, and automation; educate teams on emerging practices
Qualifications
- Experience building automation platforms and self-service tools for workflow management, analytics, or engineering productivity
- Fluency in at least two modern languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience building microservices architectures, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience with data pipelines, analytics platforms, and visualization tools for operational metrics and KPIs
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, CosmosDB) for data storage and analytics
- Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK) and distributed systems monitoring, logging, and tracing
- Experience with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience writing workflow automation code (YAML pipelines, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- Knowledge of retrospective facilitation, continuous improvement processes, and blameless culture principles
- Strong architecture and design skills with ability to influence engineering direction and technical roadmap
- Experience solving complex analytical problems with data-driven approaches
- Proven ability to partner with cross-functional engineering teams and drive systemic improvements
- Excellent communication skills with ability to present technical insights to leadership and influence decision-making
- Experience leveraging GenAI or LLMs is a plus
Experience
- 10+ years of professional platform development or general development experience
- 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $260,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
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Senior Staff Data Engineer Job Market in Texas
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Who's Hiring
- GEICO2
- Oracle2
- Avride1
- Micron Technology1
- Qualcomm1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software3
- Electronics & Hardware2
- Science & Research1
- Telecommunications1
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior staff data engineer jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, data engineering, or a related technical field
- Seven or more years of hands-on data engineering experience including staff or tech lead responsibility
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with large-scale data workloads
- Proficiency building and maintaining distributed data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, or Apache Flink
- Experience designing and governing data lakehouse or warehouse architectures in production environments
- Strong communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams and presenting to senior stakeholders
Senior Staff Data Engineer Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior staff data engineer in Texas?
Reaching the senior staff level in Texas typically requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, or a related field, followed by several years progressing through data engineer and staff engineer roles. There is no state-issued license for data engineers in Texas, so employers focus on demonstrated technical depth, cloud platform certifications from AWS, Azure, or Google, and a portfolio of large-scale pipeline or platform projects. Texas's concentration of energy and financial services companies means experience with high-throughput, regulated data environments carries particular weight.
How much do senior staff data engineers make in Texas?
Senior staff data engineers in Texas earn a median of about $132,150 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $82,600 for the lowest 10% to over $183,680 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior staff data engineers in Texas?
Employers hiring senior staff data engineers in Texas right now include GEICO, Oracle, and Avride, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Texas's mix of energy giants, large financial institutions, major health systems, and growing technology companies creates sustained demand for engineers who can own platform-level data infrastructure.
Which Texas cities have the most senior staff data engineer jobs?
Austin and Richardson account for the largest share of senior staff data engineer openings in Texas. Austin's technology company cluster and Dell's headquarters drive consistent demand there, Houston's energy and healthcare industries anchor a large share of platform engineering roles, and Dallas's dense financial services and telecommunications sector supports steady hiring, with suburban corridors like Plano and Irving contributing additional openings from major corporate campuses.
Are there remote senior staff data engineer jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 0% of senior staff data engineer openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting the reality that data platform work is largely done through cloud consoles, code repositories, and virtual collaboration tools. Architecture design, pipeline development, and data governance work are the areas most commonly offered with full remote flexibility, while on-site presence is more often required for roles embedded in regulated industries like healthcare or government contracting.
How can I get hired as a senior staff data engineer in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is landing a junior or associate data engineer role and building toward the senior staff level from there. Large Texas employers in energy and finance, including companies headquartered in Houston and Dallas, regularly hire through new-graduate programs that onboard engineers from adjacent roles such as data analyst, analytics engineer, or software engineer. Earning a cloud data engineering certification from AWS or Google and contributing to open-source pipeline projects strengthens a candidate's profile considerably in Texas's competitive market.
Where can I find and apply to senior staff data engineer jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to senior staff data engineer jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings updated regularly. Search the available roles, identify the ones that match your background and target location, and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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