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
Lead Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer building data pipelines, relational databases, and Azure cloud infrastructure while integrating LLM APIs to power AI-enhanced internal tools at a climate/energy non-profit.
2026 Real-time Launch Operations Software and Data Engineer
Develop real-time software and data pipelines for processing launch vehicle telemetry data in the STARS facility, working with Java, Python, C#, C++, and cloud-native architectures in an onsite role.
Sr. Data Engineer - Flink
Lead the design and operation of real-time streaming platforms using Apache Flink, AWS Managed Service for Flink, and Kafka to build scalable, low-latency data pipelines for Hitachi Energy’s climate-tech solutions.
Senior CE Data Engineer
The Senior CE Data Engineer builds and maintains secure, scalable data pipelines on Databricks within a healthcare-regulated environment. The role focuses on implementing medallion architectures, data contracts, and PHI isolation controls to support AI-ready data products.
Data Engineer III - Partner Data
Data Engineer III owning end-to-end data products, pipelines, and services for Expedia Group's Partner Data team, leveraging Java/Scala, AI copilot tools, and cloud infrastructure to power analytics and data-driven experiences.
Director - Data Platform
Leads data engineering teams responsible for designing, delivering, and governing Snowflake-based data platforms and pipelines across CSI's banking and fintech solutions, overseeing architecture, governance, audits, and budget management.
Data Engineer
Data Engineer building and scaling cloud-based data platforms and pipelines (batch and streaming) using SQL, Python, dbt, Databricks, AWS, and Snowflake for a pet insurance holding company's enterprise analytics organization.
Data Engineer 1, Operational Technology - Operations #4941
Builds and maintains data pipelines to ingest, transform, and integrate lab instrument/automation data into reliable datasets for analytics and AI systems in a regulated healthcare environment.
Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Data Access Team
Senior Staff engineer on ServiceNow's Data Access team, building and leading the SQL generation engine and data platform backbone that powers the AI platform, using core Java and relational databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB, and Trino.
Senior Software Engineer I - Data Engineering
Senior Software Engineer builds and scales data infrastructure for a space company, focusing on backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs to support mission operations and hardware validation.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer building and scaling production data pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow to process healthcare data for an AI-powered platform.
Software Engineer - Data Platform
Builds and operates large-scale data infrastructure (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Trino) to process trillions of daily events for ML, analytics, and real-time systems in a high-performance, petabyte-scale environment.
Sr. IT Data Engineer
Designs and maintains data pipelines and integrations to support internal operations, using SQL, Java, Python, and ETL tools in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
Software Engineer - X Data Engineering
Builds and operates distributed data pipelines processing billions of events daily to power AI-driven insights, using Python, Spark, Kafka, Flink, and SQL in Palo Alto.