Data Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 5,730 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 288 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 32% of the 1,004 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,675
- Lead 490
- Staff 250
- Principal 165
- C-level 123
- Junior 77
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 1,128
- 501-1000 employees 499
- 51-200 employees 120
- 11-50 employees 80
- 201-500 employees 25
- 1-10 employees 6
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.
Director, Real-World Evidence Data Platform
Leads the build-out of a real-world data platform for Novartis, integrating claims, EHRs, registries and specialty sources to generate evidence for drug value and safety decisions.
Data Engineer
Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-wide data platforms for a global financial services firm, standardizing financial and risk data across divisions using AWS, Spark, and distributed processing tools.
AVP, Data Engineering
Lead a team to build and maintain a modern cloud-based data platform for a global reinsurance company, using Azure, Python, and SQL to enable analytics and AI-driven insights.
Data Engineering Manager, Customer
Lead a team of Data Engineers to build scalable data solutions for DraftKings' customer-focused systems, using cloud platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, while advancing AI-enabled development practices.
Data Engineer
Designs and builds SQL Server star-schema data warehouses and ETL pipelines for a federal healthcare program, ensuring scalable analytics and compliance with government standards.
Data Engineer
Build and maintain BigQuery data warehouse and dbt models to power analytics for an ecommerce fashion brand, integrating new data sources and optimizing SQL transformations.
Senior ETL Developer
Build and maintain Python-based ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and load geospatial and time-critical data into PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases for a national security analytics platform.
Manager, Data Engineering
Lead a team of nine engineers through a shift from Oracle to Snowflake, owning PL/SQL code, cloud migrations, and modern data pipelines while coaching engineers and enforcing technical standards.
Senior Data Engineer-AI/BI Analytics
Build and govern enterprise-scale AI/BI analytics platforms at Bank of America, designing data pipelines, metadata systems, and governance controls to power GenAI initiatives across the bank.
Lead Software Engineer-Data Engineer, Pyspark, Databricks
Lead a team building and scaling a secure, AI-driven KYC and risk data platform using Python/Java, Databricks, Spark, and cloud-native tools to support JPMorganChase’s global operations.
Scientific Data Engineering Specialist
Design and build scalable cloud-native data pipelines for high-volume geospatial and environmental datasets, including satellite imagery and radar, using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
Contact Center Data Engineer II
Builds and maintains data pipelines, dashboards, and reports in Power BI and SQL to analyze contact center, IVR, and workforce performance and guide operational decisions.
Senior Data Engineer - TS/SCI
Senior Data Engineer builds and optimizes Elasticsearch and graph-based data platforms for intelligence operations, designing scalable ingestion pipelines and Kubernetes-deployed services to support OSINT and document exploitation.