Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,717 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,420 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 | 953 |
| USD | hour | $61 | $70 | $87 | 23 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 53%
- cloud 52%
- sql 51%
- data-engineering 51%
- python 50%
- data-pipelines 46%
- ai 45%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 987 · 17%
- Hybrid 783 · 14%
- Onsite 287 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,004 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,667
- Lead 485
- Staff 250
- Principal 166
- C-level 122
- Junior 76
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,124
- 501-1000 employees 498
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
Lead Data Engineer
Lead a team building and optimizing secure, scalable data pipelines and platforms using Python, PySpark, SQL, and Airflow to support analytics and reporting across JPMorgan Chase’s corporate functions.

Staff Data Engineer
Leads the architecture and scaling of a healthcare data platform that ingests and processes clinical data for millions of patients, using cloud-native tools and modern data stacks.

Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer builds and scales healthcare data pipelines and platforms to consolidate and deliver patient records in real-time, using cloud-native tools like Spark, Snowflake, and AWS.
Senior Data Engineer
Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure to support analytics and decision-making for a leading property-casualty insurer.
Senior Data Governance Analyst
Senior Data Governance Analyst at Zayo to establish policies ensuring data quality, compliance, and security across the company’s global network infrastructure.
(USA) Senior, Data Engineer
Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines and cloud architectures to deliver business insights, focusing on integration, modeling, and governance.
Director of Data Engineering
Lead a team of data engineers to build and maintain Databricks/Spark and PostgreSQL pipelines, enforce engineering standards, and drive AI-assisted tooling adoption in a client-focused consulting environment.
Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer designs and maintains enterprise-scale data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data lakes using Databricks, Spark, SQL, Kafka, and AWS services to support analytics and AI/ML initiatives.
Data Engineer
Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines and data interfaces to feed BI systems, apps, and websites, using tools like Informatica or Azure Data Factory and advanced SQL.
Data Engineer
Designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines for investment and operations data using SQL, Python/C#, Snowflake, and AWS, while mentoring junior engineers and supporting production systems.
Senior Data Engineer, BI
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, warehouses, and BI reports using Microsoft Fabric, SSIS, SQL Server, and Power BI for a credit-union fintech.
Data Engineer
Designs and builds scalable data pipelines and warehouses in Azure, using Python, Spark, and T-SQL to transform healthcare data and support analytics for IEHP’s member services.
Data Engineer
Designs and maintains ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and analytics infrastructure using Azure tools, SQL, PySpark, and Databricks to ensure reliable healthcare data for reporting and modeling.
Manager, Data Governance
Oversee data governance at a healthcare plan: set policies, enforce standards, and protect sensitive data while collaborating with IT and business teams to drive data quality and compliance.