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# Data Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Greenwood Village, CO, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Application Frameworks, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, Database Queries, Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Data Streaming, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Machine Learning Operations, Video Streaming, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a0a8214e-6e86-44b8-995c-6af3e5201297

## About the Role

* Production experience building and optimizing data pipelines
 * Strong AWS experience, ideally including EMR
 * Strong data and software engineering fundamentals
 * Strong SQL skills
 * Systems/architecture mindset with the ability to understand complex data flows
 * Comfortable working independently and solving problems from scratch

Nice to Have:

 * Scala or Java
 * Spark
 * Kafka or other streaming technologies
 * Databricks
 * MLflow/machine learning infrastructure experience

## Description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer in Greenwood Village, CO., We're looking for a Data Infrastructure Engineer to build and optimize scalable data pipelines that support data science and production systems. This is an engineering-focused role centered on cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, performance optimization, and production reliability-not analytics or reporting.

What You'll Do:

 * Build, maintain, and optimize large-scale data pipelines
 * Design reusable frameworks and pipeline patterns
 * Work heavily in AWS, including EMR
 * Optimize jobs for performance, cost, and scalability
 * Build reliable data feeds for data science, models, features, and retraining
 * Own production pipelines, including testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, backfills, and data corrections
 * Help evolve platform architecture and support future streaming use cases
 * Navigate and troubleshoot a large, complex monorepo and its many dependencies


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