Data Engineering Engineer Salary

Based on 45 Data Engineering listings with published compensation (106 total jobs)

$218k
Average
$112k
Low Posted
45
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 45 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 106 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
56 jobs
$208k avg
mid
24 jobs
$174k avg
lead
18 jobs
$302k avg
junior
5 jobs
$182k avg
principal
3 jobs
$371k avg

Top Paying Companies for Data Engineering

Data Engineering Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
25 jobs
$272k avg
New York, NY
9 jobs
$238k avg
Irvine, CA
4 jobs
$136k avg
Remote (US)
4 jobs
$167k avg
Palo Alto, CA
4 jobs
$217k avg
Bangalore, India
3 jobs
Hyderabad, India
3 jobs
United States
3 jobs
$170k avg
Mountain View, CA
3 jobs
$194k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
3 jobs
$196k avg

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.

Raw data available via the REST API or MCP server.

Browse 106 Data Engineering Jobs

See current Data Engineering roles with salary data and apply links.

View Jobs → Companies Hiring