Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,630 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,412 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 | $146,900 | $173,550 | $207,800 | 973 |
| USD | hour | $58 | $70 | $80 | 25 |
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 968 · 17%
- Hybrid 760 · 13%
- Onsite 281 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 999 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,687
- Lead 461
- Staff 242
- Principal 162
- C-level 117
- Junior 79
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,129
- 501-1000 employees 489
- 51-200 employees 121
- 11-50 employees 83
- 201-500 employees 24
- 1-10 employees 7


Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
Builds and scales Harvey’s data platform to enable secure, self-serve data access for product, analytics, and ops teams, focusing on Snowflake ingestion, CDC, orchestration, real-time processing, and governance for a high-growth AI-driven legal services company.
Mid-Level Data Engineer
Design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines and ETL processes for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Azure-based enterprise data management environment, supporting analytics and ML readiness.
Data Engineering Manager
The Data Engineering Manager leads a team of 7-9 engineers to support and deliver on an enterprise Databricks data platform. The role focuses on technical execution, data transformation, and team management rather than initial architecture design.


Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
Build and own Harvey’s data platform—ingesting, processing, and serving data securely for AI-driven legal services, ensuring reliability, governance, and real-time capabilities.
Senior Manager, Data Engineering & Analytics
Lead a small global data engineering and analytics team at a health-tech company while hands-on building batch and event-driven pipelines, dashboards, and data platforms using AWS (Redshift, Glue, Lambda, S3), dbt, Airflow, PySpark, and BI tools like Sigma/Looker.
Marketing Science Senior Analyst - BI, Conversational Analytics & Data Engineering
Builds data pipelines, BI dashboards, and AI-enabled analytics to connect marketing spend to business outcomes for enterprise B2B clients.
Sr. Data Engineer - FP&A
Builds and optimizes Cognite’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for FP&A, designing semantic layers, pipelines, and AI-driven reporting to empower business decisions using Azure, Fabric, and Power BI.
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Lead and manage a team of data engineers building platform and data architecture for BI and data science solutions, with hands-on work in Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, and Python.
Data Engineer II
Builds and maintains data pipelines and a semantic layer for a fintech platform that powers global investing, using Python, SQL, Spark, and AWS.
Data Engineer
Prolaio is seeking a Data Engineer to build and optimize data pipelines and data lakes on GCP to support cardiology-focused analytics and machine learning. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to manage clinical data while ensuring compliance with healthcare security standards.
Data Engineer Quadient ExStream
The Data Engineer will design and develop applications using Quadient Inspire and custom software to manage sophisticated workflows and document templates. The role involves working with complex data formats like XML and JSON to support document design and processing.