Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Counted Nov 1, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,401
Employers: 1,973

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $126,020Across 787 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $60.78Across 465 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 13%563 listings
Hybrid: 6%281 listings
On-site: 8%336 listings

Not specified: 73% (3,221 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (301), Booz Allen Hamilton_United States (75), Insight Global (69).

Sources & calculation notes

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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Data Engineer - St. Louis
Agile Defense
Scott AFB, IL
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Omaha
Agile Defense
Offut AFB, NE
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Fort Meade
Agile Defense
Fort Meade, MD
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - DC
Agile Defense
Washington, DC
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Arlington (VA)
Agile Defense
Arlington, VA
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Honolulu
Agile Defense
Camp Smith, HI
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Colorado Springs
Agile Defense
Peterson Space Force Base, CO
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Doral
Agile Defense
Doral, FL
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer - Falls Church
Agile Defense
Falls Church, VA
- $135,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Final - Data Engineer
Insight Global
Plano, TX
- From $71 USD / hour
Insight Global's top Telecommunication client's Labs division is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to join their 5G Network Automation grou
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Data Engineer II
Indeed
United States
The Data Engineer's role at Indeed is to integrate data from a variety of internal and external sources into common data mesh domain models, in order to support data and analytics…
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Data Engineer II – Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & AI
HTC Global Services Inc
Dearborn, MI
Job Title: Data Engineer II – GCP & AI Overview / Summary
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Senior Data Engineer
Tillster
Portland, OR
- $130,000 to $150,000 USD / year
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Senior Data Engineer
Tillster
Los Angeles, CA
- $140,000 to $160,000 USD / year
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Senior Data Engineer
Tillster
San Diego, CA
- $135,000 to $155,000 USD / year
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Senior Data Engineer
Tillster
Seattle, WA
- $150,000 to $175,000 USD / year
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Senior Data Engineer
Tillster
Las Vegas, NV
- $120,000 to $140,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer-DBA
CAI Computer Aid, Inc.
United States
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Data Engineer
GREATER ORLANDO AVIATION AUTH
Orlando, FL
The Data Engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and enterprise data platforms that transform data into trusted, actionable information for analytics and…
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AI Data Engineer – Power Platform & Automation
Team Red Dog
Beaverton, OR
- $49 to $53 USD / hour
Team Red Dog is hiring an AI Data Engineer – Power Platform & Automation for our client, a global technology leader and intelligent cloud innovator. This remote role will modernize Azure…
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Senior Data Engineer & BI Developer (Hybrid)
Dawar Consulting, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
- $90 to $98 USD / hour
Our client, a world leader in biotechnology and life sciences, is looking for a "Senior Data Engineer & BI Developer” based in Foster City, CA.
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Senior Data Engineer
Schupan
Kalamazoo, MI · Wixom, MI · MI · Elkhart, IN
- $111,000 to $167,000 USD / year
The Senior Data Engineer builds the data foundation that Schup
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Senior Data Engineer
Headway
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA
- $180,000 to $225,000 USD / year
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Data Engineer II - Databricks
Deloitte
Baltimore, MD
Deloitte is seeking a Data Engineer II to support the design, development, and delivery of data solutions that enable analytics, reporting, and business decision-making. This role will…

Insight Global

Data Engineer

Charlotte, NC, United States

From $61 USD / hour

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Job details

Pay: From $61 USD / hour
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 21, 2026

Original job description

Required Skills & Experience

7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
4+ years of hands-on AWS experience
Strong understanding of cloud architecture and concepts
Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, S3, Athena, and Redshift.
Experience building and integrating APIs and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) o Exposure to GenAI solutions using AWS Bedrock, LLMs, tool calling, and agent-based architectures.
Experience with Claude or Codex and prompt engineering
Experience working with large language models (LLMs)
Experience with Java-based REST APIs, preferably using Spring Boot.
Strong Python development experience and using Pyspark
Strong SQL skills
Apache Kafka experience
Experience building end-to-end data pipelines
Strong knowledge of data domains, data modeling, and data analysis
Experience designing data ingestion, transformation, and delivery workflows
Ability to clearly explain technical decisions through prior project examples

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

FastAPI experience
Experience with data warehouse architecture
Financial services industry experience
AWS Step Functions
Lambda
Lake Formation
IAM
CloudWatch
Docker
Git/Jenkins
RAG
AI agent development

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Data Engineer for a top financial services client. This individual contributor will help build scalable AI-enabled services that connect enterprise data with large language models. The position is approximately 60% MCP and API development and 40% data engineering, with responsibility for developing Model Context Protocol solutions, APIs, prompts, and cloud-based data pipelines. The ideal candidate combines strong Python, SQL, AWS, Kafka, and data-modeling experience with hands-on knowledge of API development, LLM integration, and prompt engineering. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys owning solutions across data ingestion, transformation, AI integration, and downstream delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Spend approximately 60% of the role building and supporting MCPs and APIs
Spend approximately 40% of the role performing AWS-focused data engineering
Design and develop scalable data pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, S3, Athena, and Redshift.
Develop complex data transformations and data-quality solutions using Python, PySpark, and SQL.
Design and develop Java-based REST APIs, preferably using Spring Boot.
Build integrations between APIs, databases, AWS services, and enterprise applications.
Develop and integrate MCP servers and MCP tools to expose enterprise APIs, data, and services to AI agents.
Develop GenAI solutions using AWS Bedrock, LLMs, tool calling, and agent-based architectures.
Implement production-grade logging, exception handling, security, testing, monitoring, and CI/CD.

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Skills

Data engineering
AWS
Amazon DynamoDB
Oracle Java
Python
SQL
Apache Kafka
Data modelling
Data analysis
Data warehouse
API development
Process data
PySpark

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