Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,637 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,419 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 280 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 999 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,692
- Lead 465
- Staff 242
- Principal 162
- C-level 117
- Junior 79
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,129
- 501-1000 employees 490
- 51-200 employees 121
- 11-50 employees 83
- 201-500 employees 24
- 1-10 employees 7
Lead Data Platform Engineer
Lead Data Platform Engineer (hybrid, Arlington, VA) supporting the design and implementation of a data platform—including environment setup, layered architecture, infrastructure-as-code, cloud provisioning, RBAC, and pipeline best practices—for a State Farm engagement via Dexian DISYS.
Senior Data Engineer - Advanced Data Integration & Cloud Solutions
Designs and optimizes cloud-based data pipelines and services to support advanced analytics and machine learning for government product safety initiatives.
Data Engineer, Security Analytics
Build and maintain security analytics pipelines and dashboards to automate evidence collection and measure control effectiveness for Wayve’s AI-driven autonomous vehicle platform.
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Lead a 10+ person data engineering team and own the end-to-end data platform — unified ingestion framework, Apache Iceberg lakehouse, dbt modeling layer, and Trino query engine — while staying hands-on in design and code reviews.
Junior AI Data Engineer (Marketing)
Builds AI-driven marketing automation and data pipelines to replace manual processes, ensuring clean, real-time data for campaign analytics and reporting using Python, SQL, and Supabase.
Sr Engineer, Data Engineering
Senior data engineer responsible for maintaining and developing data engineering processes, Star Schema data models, and data lake infrastructure, with duties spanning troubleshooting failed jobs, code reviews, and mentoring team members.
Product Manager | Cloud Data Platform
Leads cloud data platform roadmap for a distributed SQL database company, focusing on scalability, security, and developer experience to power AI and enterprise workloads.

Data Engineer Intern
The Data Engineer Intern will assist in developing and maintaining an analytics platform, focusing on data modeling, pipeline optimization, and the integration of AI for agentic analytics. This hybrid role involves collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into data products.
Principal Tech Lead Manager - Data Platform & Reliability Engineering
Lead a team to architect, scale, and maintain ID.me’s high-availability PostgreSQL and Identity Trust Graph databases while enforcing strict SRE practices and regulatory compliance for secure identity verification services.
Head of Data Engineering & Platform
Lead a team to build Mercury’s data platform, designing scalable infrastructure for analytics, AI, and operational systems while ensuring data quality, governance, and regulatory compliance in a fintech environment.