Median Salary
$175,979
Data Engineering roles
Jobs with Pay Data
1,197
postings with salary info
Salary Range
$144,000 – $216,000
25th to 75th percentile
Companies Reporting
173
with compensation data

Salary by Seniority

Median Data Engineering salary by experience level

intern
$67,600
junior
$108,675
mid
$155,450
senior
$184,750
staff
$222,000
principal
$210,200
manager
$168,700
director
$250,700

Top-Paying Companies

By median Data Engineering salary

Netflix
$486,000
HubSpot
$346,050
Anthropic
$322,500
Workday
$308,700
OpenAI
$307,500
Roblox
$267,950
Datadog
$267,000
Ripple
$256,000
Fortinet
$250,000
Figma
$244,000

Top Locations by Salary

Median salary by location

Panamá
$486,000
Los Gatos
$367,500
Canada - Remote (ON
$261,000
Oakland
$253,766
San Mateo
$242,525
Remote U.S.
$238,500
Remote - United States
$228,950
San Francisco
$222,157

Compensation Distribution

Based on 1,197 Data Engineering postings with salary data

<$75k
20
$75k–$100k
51
$100k–$150k
275
$150k–$200k
451
$200k–$300k
307
$300k+
93

Data Engineering Jobs with Salary

senior Analytics Engineer · 2U · Crystal City | Remote (United States)
LLMs Tableau Looker
$102k – $125k
senior Analytics Engineer · 2U · Crystal City | Remote (United States)
HTML/CSS Tableau Looker
$94k – $105k
senior Data Analyst · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Swift SQL Snowflake
$122k – $176k
mid Data Analyst · Activision Blizzard · Santa Monica, CA · Posted Mar 20, 2026
C Tableau Looker
$56k – $103k
mid Data Analyst · Activision Blizzard · Santa Monica, CA · Posted Mar 20, 2026
Data Analytics
$56k – $103k
staff Data Analyst · Activision Blizzard · New York City, NY · Posted Mar 13, 2026
Python R SQL
$112k – $207k
staff Data Analyst · Activision Blizzard · San Francisco, CA · Posted Mar 13, 2026
Python R SQL
$112k – $207k
senior Data Analyst · Adyen · San Francisco, CA
SQL Tableau Looker
$169k – $232k
mid Data Scientist · Affirm · Remote (United States)
Python R SQL
$140k – $190k
senior Analytics Engineer · Affirm · Remote (United States)
Python SQL Tableau
$140k – $190k
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