Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,722 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,397 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 983 · 17%
- Hybrid 783 · 14%
- Onsite 287 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,008 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,668
- Lead 492
- Staff 250
- Principal 164
- C-level 121
- Junior 78
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,134
- 501-1000 employees 501
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
Vice President, AI / Machine Learning Data Engineering
Lead AI/ML engineering to build tools that enhance software design, testing, and operations for a global financial firm.


Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer builds and maintains Cortex’s internal data pipelines, consolidating Segment/Hevo/BigQuery/Omni into a single source of truth and enabling accurate product analytics and AI-driven GTM automation.
DATA ENGINEER IV
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for a machine-learning team at a major bank, using Python, SQL, and cloud tools like AWS, Snowflake, and dbt.
Software Engineer - Data Platform (Staff+)
Build and scale Cogent’s data platform to ingest, normalize, and transform enterprise security data into a knowledge base for AI-driven cybersecurity workflows.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer Remote Role Contract to Hire Compensation: $80 - $90/hour, DOE ABOUT THE ROLE Join our AI Data Products Scrum Team as a Senior Data Engineer, supporting a Fortune 50 healthcare insurance…
Manager Content Data Engineering
Lead a team to engineer data products that power search, analytics, and AI for financial compliance professionals using regulatory content and tools.