Median Salary
$172,000
Data Engineering roles
Jobs with Pay Data
1,180
postings with salary info
Salary Range
$144,000 – $213,000
25th to 75th percentile
Companies Reporting
168
with compensation data

Salary by Seniority

Median Data Engineering salary by experience level

intern
$57,200
junior
$108,675
mid
$155,450
senior
$183,150
staff
$222,000
principal
$211,550
manager
$206,000
director
$252,200

Top-Paying Companies

By median Data Engineering salary

Netflix
$486,000
Veeam
$368,350
Vanta
$344,000
Anthropic
$340,000
OpenAI
$309,000
Duolingo
$305,000
Everlaw
$284,000
Asana
$271,125
Ironclad
$270,000
Mercury
$268,900

Top Locations by Salary

Median salary by location

Panamá
$486,000
Remote - United States
$260,450
Oakland
$253,766
Remote US
$240,000
San Francisco
$229,000
San Francisco HQ
$226,800
United States (Remote)
$222,469
Mountain View
$222,000

Compensation Distribution

Based on 1,180 Data Engineering postings with salary data

<$75k
11
$75k–$100k
41
$100k–$150k
295
$150k–$200k
465
$200k–$300k
293
$300k+
75

Data Engineering Jobs with Salary

mid Data Engineer · Abnormal Security · Remote (United States)
Redis DynamoDB Kafka
$149k – $215k
mid Data Scientist · 2U · Crystal City
Python SQL Snowflake
$107k – $124k
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 Engineer · Activision Blizzard · Vancouver, Canada · Posted Apr 23, 2026
Python SQL Azure
$92k – $194k
mid Data Analyst · Activision Blizzard · Santa Monica, CA · Posted May 18, 2026
Python R SQL
$71k – $131k
senior Analytics Engineer · Affirm · Remote (United States)
Python SQL dbt
$180k – $230k
senior Analytics Engineer · Affirm · Remote (United States)
Python R SQL
$215k – $265k
senior Analytics Engineer · Affirm · Remote (United States)
Python SQL Machine Learning
$215k – $265k
senior Analytics Engineer · Affirm · Remote (United Kingdom)
Python SQL Machine Learning
$133k – $173k
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