Data Engineering Engineer Salary

Based on 44 Data Engineering listings with published compensation (110 total jobs)

$232k
Average
$112k
Low Posted
44
With Salary
$499k
High Posted

Data Engineering engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $112k to $499k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Data Engineering features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 44 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 110 total open Data Engineering roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

senior
54 jobs
$218k avg
mid
28 jobs
$173k avg
lead
21 jobs
$282k avg
principal
4 jobs
$371k avg
junior
3 jobs
$183k avg

Top Paying Companies for Data Engineering

Data Engineering Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
32 jobs
$273k avg
New York, NY
8 jobs
$240k avg
Remote (US)
7 jobs
$205k avg
Bangalore, India
4 jobs
—
Palo Alto, CA
4 jobs
$283k avg
Irvine, CA
3 jobs
$136k avg
United States
3 jobs
$175k avg
Israel
2 jobs
—
Hawthorne, CA
2 jobs
$192k avg
Tel Aviv, Israel
2 jobs
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How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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