Data Engineering Engineer Salary

Based on 43 Data Engineering listings with published compensation (101 total jobs)

$220k
Average
$65k
Low Posted
43
With Salary
$499k
High Posted
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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 $65k 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 43 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 101 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
49 jobs
$221k avg
mid
25 jobs
$184k avg
lead
17 jobs
$245k avg
junior
7 jobs
$184k avg
principal
3 jobs
$371k avg

Top Paying Companies for Data Engineering

Data Engineering Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
30 jobs
$252k avg
New York, NY
8 jobs
$247k avg
Remote
6 jobs
$212k avg
United States
5 jobs
$126k avg
Palo Alto, CA
4 jobs
$210k avg
Irvine, CA
3 jobs
$170k avg
Hyderabad, India
3 jobs
London, UK
3 jobs
Sunnyvale, CA
2 jobs
$187k avg
In-Office
2 jobs

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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