Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,650 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,433 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 | $147,350 | $173,550 | $208,712 | 973 |
| USD | hour | $57 | $69 | $84 | 24 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 52%
- cloud 52%
- sql 51%
- python 50%
- data-engineering 50%
- data-pipelines 45%
- ai 44%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 969 · 17%
- Hybrid 763 · 14%
- Onsite 285 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,001 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,702
- Lead 465
- Staff 245
- Principal 162
- C-level 116
- Junior 79
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,128
- 501-1000 employees 491
- 51-200 employees 121
- 11-50 employees 83
- 201-500 employees 24
- 1-10 employees 7
Lead Data Engineer
A Lead Data Infrastructure Engineer at Stellic owns the design and operation of the company's data platform, building scalable data pipelines and customer-facing data systems to support student education insights and scale, using technologies like dbt, Airflow, S3, and Redshift.

Senior Software Engineer II, Data Platform
Senior software engineer to architect and evolve Fetch’s data platform, building scalable pipelines, governed data access, and partner integrations while driving reliability and developer experience.
Data Engineer with IRS MBI Clearance
Design, build, and maintain scalable big data processing pipelines using Apache Spark, Databricks, and cloud platforms for an IRS project requiring MBI clearance and GFE.
Lead Data Engineer
Designs and manages cloud-based data infrastructure for fintech asset management, focusing on platform engineering and DevOps automation.
Data Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Tustin, CA Salary: $160,000.00 USD Annually - $170,000.00 USD Annually Description: Data Platform Engineering Lead Irvine, CA Fulltime Must Have Technical/Functional Skills Data Bricks , EBT ,Airflow , Asset…
ETL Developer
Develops and maintains ETL processes, refactors legacy code, and builds data marts to support business intelligence and analytics initiatives.
Data Engineer
Builds and maintains ETL/ELT pipelines and a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake/BigQuery) from scratch, ensuring data accuracy, scalability, and usability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Data Governance SME (Remote)
United States Suitability/Public Trust Fully remote Information Technology Overview GovCIO is currently hiring a Data Governance SME to support Veterans Affairs (VA) Data Modernization initiatives. This role focuses on…
Senior Data Engineer
Own and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure and Microsoft Fabric, building data pipelines and Power BI dashboards to support reporting and AI-driven automation for a logistics company.
Data Engineer
Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines and Lakehouse environments to support business intelligence and advanced analytics for a Fortune 1000 client.
ETL Data Engineer - ETRM/SSRS-Houston, TX
Build and maintain ETL pipelines and reports for energy trading systems using SQL Server, SSIS, and Python in a hybrid Houston role.
Data Engineer TS/SCI (FSP) with Security Clearance
Builds and maintains data pipelines to extract, transform, and load data (structured/unstructured) using Python, SQL, and ETL tools for government/defense analytics. Focuses on automation, security, and performance in a classified environment.

Data Analyst, Financial Data Engineering
Designs and builds scalable financial data pipelines and models for Stripe, enabling reliable reporting and analytics for Treasury Finance and risk management using SQL, Python, and Spark.
Data Engineer
Design and build scalable data pipelines and models for an AI-focused GPU cloud platform, using Palantir Foundry and Python to enable real-time analytics and customer insights.
Data Engineer - Seattle, WA
Design and build scalable data pipelines and models for an AI-focused GPU cloud platform, using Palantir Foundry and Python to enable real-time insights and operational reliability.
Data Engineer, AI, Agents, & Context
Builds and maintains an AI/context platform for healthcare, focusing on unstructured data pipelines, embeddings, retrieval, and semantic layers to accelerate AI-driven product innovation.