Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,721 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,408 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are analytics, cloud and sql.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $147,500 | $174,600 | $210,000 | 955 |
| USD | hour | $62 | $70 | $84 | 24 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 53%
- cloud 52%
- sql 51%
- data-engineering 50%
- python 50%
- data-pipelines 46%
- ai 44%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 984 · 17%
- Hybrid 784 · 14%
- Onsite 289 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,004 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,671
- Lead 488
- Staff 250
- Principal 165
- C-level 123
- Junior 76
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,126
- 501-1000 employees 498
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
Senior Data Engineer/Software Developer
Builds and maintains data pipelines, ontologies, and low-code UIs for a military logistics system using Python, SQL, and Palantir Foundry, while collaborating with DoD stakeholders.
VP, Data Platform & Engineering
Lead the build-out of an AI-native data platform that turns raw food records into trusted, gold-certified outputs while enforcing strict security and governance so the data can’t leak into external AI systems.
Senior Data Engineer
Designs and builds data integration pipelines, migrates databases, and mentors junior engineers using SQL, SSIS, Databricks, and Oracle/SQL Server.
Senior Principal Data Engineer
Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms for a biotech company, using cloud technologies, AI-assisted development, and data governance to enable analytics and AI workloads.
Senior Data Engineer, Blockchain data and/or NLP pipelines
Build and operate high-throughput ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest blockchain, exchange, and text data, then serve clean datasets and APIs for crypto-market analytics and risk models.
Data Engineer, Integrated Care Solutions (Remote)
Build and maintain reliable data pipelines for a healthcare analytics platform, ensuring data quality and scalability while collaborating with analysts and architects.
Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems - Federal
Build and operate cloud-native data platform services on Kubernetes, designing distributed systems and automation for a federal-focused product.
Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems - Federal
Build and operate cloud-native data platforms on Kubernetes, designing scalable distributed systems for a federal-focused product company.
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Build and modernize Medium’s data infrastructure, ensuring reliable pipelines, observability, and scalable systems that power recommendations, analytics, and payments for readers and writers.
Senior Staff Technical Product Owner - FinOps Data Platform & Engineering
Owns the FinOps data platform roadmap, defining specs for AI/ML pipelines, data contracts, and governance while driving migration to a lakehouse architecture and improving developer experience.
Clinical Data Engineer
Builds and maintains ETL/ELT pipelines to process clinical EHR data, standardizes datasets, and creates dashboards for tracking healthcare outcomes and operational metrics using Python, SQL, and cloud platforms.
Data Steward / Policy Manager - Senior - #872
Senior role managing data governance, policy, and intelligence integration for a government contractor, requiring TS/SCI clearance and experience in data operations and team leadership.
Senior Data Engineer
Build and optimize ETL pipelines in AWS using SQL and Python to assemble and transform financial data sets for stakeholders.