Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,712 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 | $147,500 | $174,300 | $210,000 | 956 |
| USD | hour | $61 | $70 | $87 | 23 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 53%
- cloud 52%
- sql 51%
- python 50%
- data-engineering 50%
- data-pipelines 46%
- ai 44%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 984 · 17%
- Hybrid 779 · 14%
- Onsite 286 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,012 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,669
- Lead 489
- Staff 246
- Principal 163
- C-level 121
- Junior 79
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,143
- 501-1000 employees 502
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Lead a team to build and maintain a scalable data platform, setting standards for data pipelines, streaming, and governance while ensuring reliability and quality.

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Lead a team building Hadrian’s data backbone—ingesting machine and factory data into Snowflake/Iceberg, streaming via Redpanda/Kafka, and orchestrating with Dagster/dbt to power scheduling, analytics, and ML across autonomous factories.
Data Engineer II
Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and models to power Love's enterprise analytics and data capabilities.
Data Engineer (Fraud Analytics & Investigative Support)
Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines to ingest and transform diverse data sources for fraud analytics and investigative support in a federal oversight context.