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Data center jobs in Texas
On October 25, 2026, the careers sites of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle listed 415 open data center roles located in Texas, 2nd of the 29 states with ten or more roles. Amazon (AWS) listed 231 of them, followed by Oracle (OCI) with 67, Meta with 57, Google with 43 and Microsoft with 17. By role type: 140 technician, 90 manager and 64 engineer.
By Czarina Tabayoyong, Founder, Critical Path Hiring. Former Amazon, AWS and Google recruiter.
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Counted on each company's own careers site on the 25th of each month.
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Employers
Open roles
Open data center roles located in Texas on October 25, 2026, by company and by the words in the job title.
| Company | Total | Technician | Engineer | Manager | Construction | Commissioning | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon (AWS) | 231 | 114 | 41 | 25 | 3 | 22 | 26 |
| Oracle (OCI) | 67 | 12 | 6 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| Meta | 57 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 28 | ||
| 43 | 11 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Microsoft | 17 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | |
| All five | 415 | 140 | 64 | 90 | 24 | 27 | 70 |
Each company is counted by its own careers site's definition of a data center role. Microsoft, Google and Meta postings that list several states appear in each of them, and Meta and Oracle show only part of some postings' locations, so their state counts are floors. Role types come from words in the job title. Method and every state on the hyperscaler jobs index.
Projects
Tracked projects
Data center projects in Texas markets we track, by stage.
14 tracked projects: 2 under construction, 5 approved, 3 stalled or cancelled. Median electrician $28.37 an hour in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro (BLS, May 2025).
11 tracked projects: 4 under construction, 1 approved, 2 stalled or cancelled. Median electrician $27.41 an hour in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro (BLS, May 2025).
Counting
415 is the number of postings on five careers sites that name a Texas location, on one day. It is a floor for hyperscaler hiring in the state and says nothing about colocation operators, facilities management firms, general contractors, MEP contractors or commissioning firms, which between them hire more people for the same sites. A posting can be open for months, and one posting can cover several hires.
FAQ
Questions
- How many data center jobs are open in Texas?
- 415 on October 25, 2026, counting only the careers sites of the five largest hyperscale operators. Colocation operators, facilities management firms, contractors and commissioning firms hire for the same sites and are not in this count, so the real number is higher. Dallas-Fort Worth has 2 data center projects under construction and 5 approved in our tracker and San Antonio has 4 data center projects under construction and 1 approved in our tracker, as of November 4, 2026.
- Who is hiring data center technicians in Texas?
- Amazon (AWS) (114), Oracle (OCI) (12), Google (11) and Microsoft (3) listed 140 technician-titled roles in Texas on October 25, 2026.
- Are there data center commissioning jobs in Texas?
- 27 of the 415 hyperscaler roles in Texas had commissioning in the title on October 25, 2026, at Amazon (AWS) and Oracle (OCI). Commissioning firms and MEP contractors post most commissioning roles, and those are on our commissioning pages.
- What do data center trades pay in Dallas-Fort Worth?
- The median electrician in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro earned $28.37 an hour in May 2025 (BLS). Posted pay for data center technicians ran $35 to $58 an hour nationally in our October 2026 reading. The Dallas-Fort Worth salary guide has the full wage table.
- What do data center trades pay in San Antonio?
- The median electrician in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro earned $27.41 an hour in May 2025 (BLS). Posted pay for data center technicians ran $35 to $58 an hour nationally in our October 2026 reading. The San Antonio salary guide has the full wage table.
States
Other states
The 29 states with ten or more open hyperscaler data center roles on October 25, 2026.
- Virginia463
- Oregon231
- California166
- Ohio143
- Georgia130
- Washington127
- Mississippi96
- Indiana85
- Tennessee71
- Arizona68
- Colorado68
- Nevada63
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Czarina Tabayoyong
Founder and principal recruiter, Critical Path Hiring. Czarina recruits commissioning, MEP, power and critical facilities people for data center builds. She previously recruited cloud and data center architecture talent at AWS Professional Services, and PMO and project delivery talent for hyperscale data center campuses in Texas and Virginia.