Data Pipeline Engineer Salary

Based on 564 Data Pipeline listings with published compensation (1202 total jobs)

$234k
Average
$186k
25th %ile
$222k
Median
$270k
75th %ile

Data Pipeline engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($270k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Data Pipeline features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Data Pipeline roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($186k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 564 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 1202 total open Data Pipeline 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
459 jobs
$222k avg
lead
342 jobs
$259k avg
mid
249 jobs
$166k avg
principal
78 jobs
$326k avg
junior
74 jobs
$176k avg

Top Paying Companies for Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
320 jobs
$260k avg
New York, NY
105 jobs
$239k avg
Remote (US)
77 jobs
$222k avg
Mountain View, CA
52 jobs
$239k avg
Bangalore, India
44 jobs
Remote
40 jobs
$215k avg
United States
38 jobs
$209k avg
London, UK
37 jobs
$477k avg
Boston, MA
26 jobs
$218k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
25 jobs
$206k 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. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Data Pipeline.

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