Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,729 open Data Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,409 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 | $62 | $70 | $84 | 24 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 53%
- cloud 52%
- sql 51%
- data-engineering 50%
- python 50%
- data-pipelines 46%
- ai 44%
- data-quality 39%
How the work is done
- Remote 986 · 17%
- Hybrid 785 · 14%
- Onsite 289 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,006 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,676
- Lead 490
- Staff 250
- Principal 165
- C-level 123
- Junior 77
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,130
- 501-1000 employees 499
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
Talend ETL Developer
Designs, builds, and maintains enterprise ETL pipelines using Talend to integrate data across systems, ensuring security, integrity, and reliability.
Data Engineer III
Designs and deploys scalable data pipelines on Databricks and cloud platforms to support government analytics and AI initiatives using SQL, Python, and Spark.
Lead Data Engineer (secret clearance required)
Lead a team designing and governing enterprise data architectures, data models, and ETL pipelines using PySpark to support AI and analytics initiatives for government clients.
Director, Data Governance
Leads data governance for a pharmaceutical company’s digital health unit, setting policies and controls for data, analytics, and digital products while ensuring compliance with privacy and regulatory requirements.
Director, Data Engineering Lead - Digital Insights
Lead a data engineering team to build scalable pipelines and data products that transform complex scientific and operational data into AI-ready assets for drug development and manufacturing.
Senior Data Engineer
Design and build scalable data pipelines and warehousing for AI infrastructure, using tools like Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, and Tinybird to support analytics and ML workloads.
Data Engineer - Axion
Build and optimize data pipelines to train and run ML models for autonomous systems, integrating foundation models to automate labeling and testing in mobility and AI domains.
Cloud Data Engineer
Build and maintain data pipelines and AI-driven applications using Python, Spark, Kafka, and Kubernetes to enable intelligent automation and deep insights for HPE's device management product.
Senior Director, AI / Machine Learning Data Engineer
Lead AI architecture for secure, scalable financial products, defining patterns for agentic workflows, MLOps, and production-ready AI systems at a global bank.
Data Engineer, Specialist - DADES3001
Design and build scalable data platforms and pipelines for analytics, AI, and ML at a major investment firm, using Python, SQL, and cloud tech like AWS/Azure.
Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer
Builds and maintains secure data pipelines, semantic models, and Power BI reports in Microsoft Fabric, ensuring governed, scalable analytics and AI-ready data layers.
Senior Principal AI Data Engineer
Design and operate AI-focused data pipelines that ingest, store, and process high-volume data for model-ready datasets, vector stores, and low-latency retrieval in a government defense context.