Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,611 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,421 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 | $146,800 | $173,550 | $207,975 | 972 |
| USD | hour | $57 | $69 | $84 | 24 |
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 962 · 17%
- Hybrid 755 · 13%
- Onsite 278 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 996 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,679
- Lead 462
- Staff 239
- Principal 162
- C-level 117
- Junior 78
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,127
- 501-1000 employees 488
- 51-200 employees 122
- 11-50 employees 81
- 201-500 employees 24
- 1-10 employees 7
Amazon Data Engineer, PXT Central Science
Data Engineer on Amazon's PXT Central Science team building scalable data pipelines, APIs, and productionizing ML/GenAI models using AWS services (Glue, EMR, Lambda) to power workforce analytics for 1.5M+ employees.
Head of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms
Lead the strategy, engineering, and operations of enterprise data governance platforms—including data catalog, MDM, data quality, metadata management, and lineage—to build a trusted, governed data foundation powering analytics and AI at a major payments company.
Data Governance, Senior Manager
Leads enterprise data governance programs, consulting, and Databricks practice development for a consulting firm, designing frameworks, policies, and client solutions for data stewardship, quality, and metadata management.
Senior Consultant, Data Platform
Leads the design and delivery of modern data platforms for private equity clients, using Snowflake, Azure, and Databricks to build scalable, medallion-architecture solutions while managing agile teams and client relationships.
Security Software Data Engineer I
Designs and maintains Power BI dashboards and data visualizations that provide visibility into a bank's cybersecurity programs, working closely with security analysts and executives.
Enterprise Data Engineer
Designs and maintains data pipelines to process and integrate structured/unstructured data for intelligence analysis, using Python, SQL, and Palantir in a secure government-focused environment.
Director, Product Management - Data Platform
Leads the product strategy and roadmap for Tanium’s cloud/SaaS data platform, defining how data is stored, accessed, queried, moved, and visualized across enterprise-scale systems.
BIGBLUE_Data Engineer
Builds real-time data pipelines and a company-wide data lake for an aviation logistics startup, ensuring data quality and scalability in a regulated industry using Airflow, Python, and AWS.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer owning Snowflake and dbt-powered data pipelines, models, and infrastructure for a sports fan engagement platform, spanning analytics engineering and data platform work.
Data Engineer
Designs and maintains data pipelines and infrastructure for AI/ML and NLP projects supporting Intelligence Community missions, using AWS, Kafka, Spark, and Kubernetes in Chantilly, VA.
Data Engineer
Data Engineer at GRVTY in Chantilly, VA, builds and maintains data pipelines to collect, process, and transform structured and unstructured data into intelligence for national security missions using Python, AWS, Spark, and Linux.