Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,634 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,416 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 53%
- 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 1,690
- Lead 462
- 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
Data Engineer
A data engineer who designs, builds, and operationalizes complex data solutions for customers, focusing on data governance, quality, and transformation. Works with technologies like Spark, Databricks, and cloud platforms to solve data challenges and guide clients on technical decisions.
Snowflake Data Engineer (Need local to NY/NJ only)
Senior Snowflake/Data Engineer for a 12-month onsite contract in NYC, building and maintaining data pipelines using Snowflake, Databricks, ETL, Power BI semantic models, REST APIs, and PL/SQL.
Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer designs scalable data models and event-driven pipelines for Beacon’s brain-data platform, coaching teams on best practices and shaping standards across the product.
Lead Data Engineer
The Lead Data Engineer will design and deliver high-scale batch and streaming data pipelines to support Customer 360 and Identity Graph initiatives across hospitality and gaming platforms. This is a contract-to-hire role requiring four days of onsite work per week.
Agentic AI / Data Engineer - DC GPU
Build production agentic AI systems and data pipelines on AMD Instinct GPU infrastructure—agent orchestration, memory/context databases, evaluation infrastructure, and skills frameworks—using Python, Kubernetes, and LLM serving stacks like vLLM and SGLang.
Principal Data Engineer
Hands-on Principal Data Engineer designing and leading scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines on AWS using Python, SQL, and Terraform, while mentoring senior engineers and driving data platform strategy.
Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Foundations
Build and scale Instacart’s open lakehouse foundation, governance, and multi-engine compute platform using Apache Iceberg, Spark, Kafka, and Trino to power real-time analytics and AI-driven data workflows.
Data Engineer
Designs and builds secure, scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms for federal clients using AWS, Python, Spark, and modern data tools while ensuring compliance with FedRAMP and NIST controls.
Senior Data Engineer
Designs and builds scalable data pipelines and cloud-native analytics platforms for federal clients using Python, Spark, AWS services, and modern data formats, while ensuring compliance with FedRAMP and NIST security controls.
Senior Architect, Data Engineering
Designs and advises on scalable data pipelines and lakehouse architectures using Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric, enabling AI/ML and GenAI workloads for enterprise clients.
Director, Data Engineering & AI
The Director, Data Engineering & AI leads West Monroe’s Data Engineering practice, driving business development, client delivery, and practice growth while architecting AI-enabled data solutions using technologies like Databricks, GCP, and Snowflake.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer at a consulting firm designing and building modern cloud data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric to enable analytics, AI, and BI solutions for clients.