Data engineer jobs in the United States (4,772 jobs)

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Counted Nov 8, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,772
Employers: 2,047

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $126,708Across 871 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $62.06Across 513 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 12%565 listings
Hybrid: 6%306 listings
On-site: 8%377 listings

Not specified: 74% (3,524 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (390), Booz Allen Hamilton_United States (70), Insight Global (67).

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These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Senior Data Engineer - Clearance Required
LMI
United States
LMI is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to turn fragmented customer data into dependable inputs for national security applications, analytics, and AI. You will build pipelines and data models…
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Staff Data Engineer (CBP)
LMI
United States
LMI is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) acquisition and program operations. This engineer will own data…
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Senior Data Engineer
Credence
McLean, VA
- $115,000 to $155,000 USD / year
…humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with…
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Senior Data Engineer
Credence
Boston, MA
- $115,000 to $155,000 USD / year
…humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with…
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Senior Data Engineer
Credence
Warner Robins, GA
- $115,000 to $155,000 USD / year
…humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with…
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Senior Data Engineer
Credence
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
- $115,000 to $155,000 USD / year
…humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with…
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Jr Data Engineer
Insight Global
Charlotte, NC
- From $56 USD / hour
5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
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Data Engineer, Senior
BOOZ, ALLEN & HAMILTON, INC.
Charlottesville, VA
…intelligence means that there's more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when…
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Google Senior Data Engineer
Accenture
Oklahoma City, OK
- $94,400 to $266,300 USD / year
A hands-on Engineer with foundational experience in Data Engineering, Analytics, or Mach
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Cybersecurity Data Engineer
SPECIAL AEROSPACE SECURITY SERVICES INC
Fort Meade, MD
Configure and optimize data ingestion, storage, and retrieval within the Elastic ecosystem (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fleet) to enable high-volume, high-availability operations.
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Data Engineer
TRILLIANT FOOD & NUTRITION
LITTLE CHUTE, WI
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Senior Cloud Data Engineer
AMERICAN FOODS GROUP LLC
GREEN BAY, WI
JOB REQUIREMENTS: JOB SUMMARY The Senior Cloud Data Engineer designs, develops, and optimizes scalable data solutions that support manufacturing operations, business intelligence, advanced…
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SAS Data Engineer- Linux
Cesna Recruitment
Austin, TX
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Staff Data Engineer
DAT
Denver, CO
…one of the largest repositories of freight market transaction data in the world. On a defined path to $1 billion in revenue, DAT deploys a…
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Sr. Data Engineer
Synergy Sports Technology LLC
NEW YORK, NY
Sr. Data Engineer for Sportradar US LLC. Design, build, and implement generalized large-scale, sophisticated data pipelines using Nifi for downstream analytics and data science for our…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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Staff, Data Engineer | Bentonville, Arkansas
Walmart
BENTONVILLE, AR
- $110,000 to $220,000 USD / year
Walmart is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data solutions that support business objectives across multiple domains. This role involves translating complex…
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(USA) Staff, Data Engineer
Walmart
BENTONVILLE, AR
- $110,000 to $220,000 USD / year
As a Staff Data Engineer at Walmart, you will design and implement scalable data solutions that align with business strategies and regulatory requirements. This role involves translating…
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Databricks Data Engineer
Eliassen Group
Raleigh, NC
- $150,000 to $154,000 USD / year
Our client seeks a Databricks Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines, infrastructure, and systems that support consulting services and…
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Data Engineer
Avalore, LLC
Arlington, VA
The Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain the core WDP data infrastructure and pipelines necessary to ingest, process, store, and transform data for various consumers. This person…

Credence

Senior Data Engineer

Boston, MA, United States

$115,000 to $155,000 USD / year

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Job details

Pay: $115,000 to $155,000 USD / year
Experience: 7+ years of hands-on experience delivering Data/AI/ML solutions.
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 6, 2026

Original job description

Overview

Join a team where innovation meets mission. Our AI, cloud, cyber, and modernization solutions save agencies thousands of hours, safeguard national security, and strengthen health and humanitarian missions worldwide. With 1,700+ team members, 1,500+ AI/data experts, and 100+ prime contracts, we deliver at scale and with purpose. We’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for six straight years and named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies 13 of the past 14 years. Credence is a welcoming home for those looking to grow and contribute to positive change. We encourage all employees to expand beyond their boundaries, dive into important world-changing Federal challenges. Position Summary Credence has an immediate need for a Senior AI Data Engineer to join our growing AI and Automation practice. You will be a technical anchor in our AI and Automation practice. You’ll apply advanced AI and data engineering expertise to design, build, and deploy data-driven solutions. You’ll drive agentic AI development lifecycles and collaborate across engineering, data, and stakeholder teams to deliver high-impact, cloud-native AI capabilities that advance federal missions. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below

Data Integrations Build and optimize data pipelines that prepare, clean, and structure data.
Data Lake & Warehouse Engineering Manage and organize large datasets across cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) using data lake and warehouse technologies. Implement medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers) to ensure data quality, lineage, and accessibility.
Database Management & Performance Work with both SQL and NoSQL systems to model, query, and load large-scale datasets. Monitor, tune, and maintain high-performance data stores supporting analytics and reporting.
Collaborative Engineering Work alongside data engineers, software engineers, and data scientists to develop operational agentic AI systems.
Cloud Enablement Help automate model deployment workflows using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration tools.
Production Monitoring & Optimization Monitor AI systems post-deployment, perform performance tuning, and apply best practices for reliability and scalability.
Technical Rigor & Documentation Write clean, well-documented code following industry and federal guidelines, support reproducible development.
Professional Growth Stay current on AI/ML trends and tools and actively learn from senior team members through mentorship and technical design reviews.
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Data/AI/ML, or a related field.
7+ years of hands-on experience delivering Data/AI/ML solutions.
Strong understanding of ETL, ELT, and other similar data pipeline processes, as well as Enterprise Data and Storage Systems, such as experience with OpenSearch/Elastic Search, Kafka, Bedrock, Glue, DataBricks, Snowflake, AWS S3, RDS, EBS, or Glacier
Experience with vector databases, embeddings, and their affiliated data structures, file formats, services, APIs, etc (e.g. FAISS, PGVector, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Hugging face with Pinecone, Bedrock Knowledge Base.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub/Jenkins)
Experience with VS Code and AI extensions such as Cline and Claude Code.
Strong communication skills and client-oriented mindset.
Must be authorized to work in the United States and meet the eligibility requirements for a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred

Curious and experimental about the latest innovations in AI with an orientation toward the relentless pursuit of delivering mission impact.
Python proficiency and familiarity with libraries and frameworks (Pyspark, Pandas, uv, Pydantic, FastAPI, CrewAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Unstructured).
Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Open Tofu, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to deploy cloud native applications.
Experience with agentic frameworks such as Agent2Agent Protocol, AWS Bedrock Agents, Mastra, CrewAI, Strands, or AgentCore.
Exposure to adjacent skillsets such as data science, UI/UX, cloud engineering, and platform engineering to understand the entire software ecosystem.
Knowledge of federal cybersecurity, RMF, FedRAMP, or regulatory frameworks.

Why This Role Matters

Real-World Impact - Your work will support defense and health agencies where AI solutions directly contribute to national security and public well-being.
Growth-Oriented Environment - Learn from technical leaders, innovate within Agentic AI, and mentor those around you in AI best practices.
Culture of Empowerment - You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, trust, collaboration, and mission success.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on the selected candidate's experience, education, certifications, skills, and overall qualifications.

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
Short Term & Long Term Disability
Training & Development
Wellness Resources

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