Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,615 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,436 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 | $146,800 | $173,550 | $207,975 | 972 |
| USD | hour | $57 | $69 | $84 | 24 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 52%
- cloud 51%
- sql 51%
- python 50%
- data-engineering 50%
- data-pipelines 45%
- ai 44%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 965 · 17%
- Hybrid 757 · 13%
- Onsite 279 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 996 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,682
- Lead 461
- Staff 240
- Principal 162
- C-level 117
- Junior 78
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,127
- 501-1000 employees 488
- 51-200 employees 121
- 11-50 employees 82
- 201-500 employees 24
- 1-10 employees 7
Technical Director, Data Engineering
Lead data engineering, analytics, and AI capabilities within J&J's Information Security & Risk Management organization, building cybersecurity data platforms, pipelines, and AI/ML solutions at scale.
Field CTO, Data Governance and MDM, Data Foundations
Field CTO at Salesforce advising strategic enterprise customers on Data Governance, MDM, and enterprise data architecture, connecting these disciplines to AI and Agentforce strategies across Salesforce, Informatica, and MuleSoft.
Principal Data Platform Engineer
Principal engineer on Salesforce's Developer Experience team, designing and building backend services, event-driven systems, AI agent runtimes, and RAG pipelines for a Snowflake-based lakehouse using Python/Go/Java and AWS.
Sr. Data Engineer
Sr. Data Engineer designing and building scalable data platforms, ETL pipelines, and BI solutions using SQL, Python, Databricks/Spark, and Azure cloud services for a community oncology healthcare company.
Amazon Software Development Manager, Amazon Leo Data Platform
Lead a team building cloud services and APIs for Amazon’s satellite internet network, Leo, focusing on low-latency analytics and AI-driven decision-making across globally distributed systems.
Amazon Data Engineer, AWS DC Central Operations
Data Engineer building ETL and analytics solutions using Python, Spark, SQL, and AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, SNS, SQS, KMS) to support data warehouse and data lake infrastructure for AWS global data center operations.
Amazon Geospatial Data Engineer , WW Sustainability
Builds and maintains geospatial data infrastructure to track Amazon’s environmental impact (carbon, water, waste) by designing pipelines, automating ETL/ELT processes, and enabling risk assessments using AWS tools and Python/Scala/Java.
Amazon Software Development Engineer, Reporting Data Platform
Build and ship data pipelines and platform capabilities for Amazon Ads' reporting data layer, processing 40B records/day on a Lakehouse architecture with Java, Python, TypeScript (AWS CDK), Spark, Iceberg, and AWS services.
Clinical Data Engineer II/III
Build and maintain ELT pipelines and a clinical data warehouse in a regulated healthcare environment, using SQL, Python, dbt, and cloud data warehouses to transform clinical, lab, and sequencing data into validated, audit-ready datasets.
Senior CE Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer building and operating a Databricks-based data platform inside a pharmacy covered-entity trust boundary, implementing medallion pipelines, PHI isolation, data contracts, and CI/CD for regulated healthcare data.
Lead Software Enigineer (Oracle Essbase Data Engineer)
Lead Software Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting Oracle Essbase-based enterprise financial forecasting and planning solutions, with ETL work using Python and PySpark.
Data Engineer, Data Governance & Compliance
Designs, develops, and maintains data platforms and pipelines to ensure data quality, security, and reliability for fintech operations, integrating on-premises and cloud systems.
Data Platform Engineer
Own the day-to-day reliability, operability, and cost efficiency of a Snowflake-centered cloud data platform—administering Snowflake, building CI/CD and orchestration pipelines, managing access controls, and executing platform migrations for this credit union.