Data engineer jobs in Plainfield, NJ and nearby (309 jobs)

Data engineer jobs within 25 miles of Plainfield, NJ. Nearby towns and cities are included. Distances are straight-line, not driving distances.

Counted Nov 8, 2026

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Open jobs: 309
Employers: 187

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $144,040Across 74 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $61.61Across 22 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 0%0 listings
Hybrid: 12%36 listings
On-site: 8%25 listings

Not specified: 80% (248 listings)

Employers hiring include IBM (13), MCKINSEY AND COMPANY INC (10), KPMG LLP (9).

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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.

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Data Engineer
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Piscataway, NJ
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Data Engineer
NJ CURE
Princeton, NJ
- $70,000 to $120,000 USD / year
We’re looking for a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines and platforms that power analytics, reporting, and data products acro
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Business Intelligence - Data Engineer
CITARELLA OPERATINGS LLC
New York, NY
Build and maintain reporting and data solutions used across the business.
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PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER
Direct Staffing Inc
New York, NY
Do you want to be a leader in transforming the next generation of data technology? Does the thought of spearheading the build-out of a world class enterprise Big Data and Streaming Data…
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Associate, Data Engineer
Basepoint Capital, LLC
New York, NY
As a Data Engineer at BasePoint, you will own and evolve our batch data ingestion layer, supporting a team of 10 Analytics Engineers who build collateral analytics for private credit…
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Data Engineer Lead
AIG PC Global Services, Inc.
Parsippany, NJ
The Data Engineer Lead is a hands-on engineering role within AIG's Data Engineering organization. You will design, build, and operate production-grade data pipelines and platforms - and…
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Sr Data Engineer (Data Architecture and Modeling)
Paramount
New York, NY
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Senior Data Engineer
Paramount
New York, NY
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Senior Manager, Data Engineer, Clinical Operations
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C.
Princeton, NJ
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Senior Data Engineer
Prudential Ins Co of America
Newark, NJ
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Lead Data Engineer
Samba
New York City, NY
- $155,000 to $180,000 USD / year
…thinking about - in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever…
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Senior Data Engineer
SoLo Funds
New York City, NY
- $150,000 to $180,000 USD / year
SoLo is building the data function of the future: one professional, operating a team of AI agents rathe
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Sr. Data Engineer
Atyeti
Princeton, NJ
Azure Services: Deep expertise in Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and related Azure analytics services
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Senior Data Engineer
Atyeti
Princeton, NJ
Experience: 8+ years of dedicated data engineering or data warehousing experience.
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Sr Azure Data Engineer/Architect
Atyeti
Princeton, NJ
Assure that data is cleansed, mapped, transformed, and otherwise optimised for storage and use according to business and technical requirements
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Principal Data Engineer
Atyeti
Princeton, NJ
Develops and maintains scalable data pipelines and builds out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.
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Staff / Principal Data Engineer
AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc.
New York, NY
We are building an AI-native data platform that powers fraud detection and response across 360 Fraud Protection. We are hiring a Staff or Principal Data Engineer to own the data platform…
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Senior Data Engineer
MSCI Inc.
New York, NY
- $125,000 to $163,000 USD / year
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be someone who deeply cares about the environment, loves information technology, and appreciates…
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Jr Data Engineer
Gen II
New York, NY
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Data Engineer
Stuut
New York City, NY
- $150,000 to $220,000 USD / year
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Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer
JPMC page
Jersey City, NJ
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) – Regulatory Reporting Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance,…
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Lead Data Engineer
JPMC page
Jersey City, NJ
As a Lead Data Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Sector, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver data collection, storage, access,…
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Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer and Applied AI
JPMC page
Jersey City, NJ
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading…
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Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineer
JPMC page
Jersey City, NJ
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Corporate Technology in Financial Planning & Analysis team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and…
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Azure Data Engineer Databricks & Data Factory
Axiom Path
Jersey City, NJ
…long-term client relationships, and continued investment in modern data capabilities. This role supports a compliance technology group responsible for delivering trusted, scalable data…

Plot Technologies, Inc.

Staff Data Engineer

New York City, NY, United States

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Job details

Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
Posting language: English
Posted: Jun 8, 2026

Original job description

WHY PLOT

Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence - an AI-native platform that helps some of the world's most influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale. We're a high-growth, venture-backed startup supported by the co-founders of Reddit and Plaid, with customers like Tory Burch, Lululemon, La Roche-Posay, and other household names.

We operate at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale data systems, turning millions of short-form videos every day into structured representations of culture and consumer behavior. Plot makes unstructured social media legible at scale, enabling brands to build a deep, systematic understanding of trends, audiences, and influence.

You'll join a small but mighty team where engineers own systems end-to-end - not tickets. You'll work directly with founders, shape foundational architecture, and make decisions that define how Plot scales for years to come. If you enjoy ambiguous problems, deep systems thinking, and building infrastructure that unlocks entire product surfaces, Plot is the place. It’s also a great fit if you aspire to be a technical founder one day - we operate with a strong founder’s mindset.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Own the core data systems that power Plot. You’ll take responsibility for how millions of enriched videos flow from ingestion → storage → analytics → product surfaces.
Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths. Our pipelines ingest and enrich data continuously; you’ll diagnose failure modes, reduce error rates, and make ingestion reliable, observable, and predictable.
Design data access patterns that stay fast under pressure. You’ll ensure dashboards and analytical queries remain responsive even while large volumes of data are being written concurrently.
Separate transactional and analytical concerns. You’ll lead decisions around which workloads belong where, and design the systems and contracts that keep them from stepping on each other.
Build read-optimized models for insight, not just storage. This includes partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas that reflect how data is actually queried - by humans and by AI.
Enable AI-native analytics. You’ll shape how our internal tools and AI agents query and reason over data, making it possible to answer complex analytical questions without brute-force scans.
Make architectural calls that matter. You’ll evaluate tradeoffs, write RFCs, and guide the evolution of Plot’s data platform as scale, product needs, and AI capabilities grow.
Raise the bar for reliability and performance across the team. You’ll define best practices, unblock other engineers, and become a go-to resource for data-related decisions.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency. You understand partitioning, locking, autovacuum, connection pooling, and why systems fail in subtle ways.
Strong systems intuition. You think in bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs - not just indexes or tooling.
Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work. You can take a messy system, form a clear mental model, and chart a pragmatic path forward.
High ownership mindset. You like digging into logs, metrics, and real data - and you care deeply about correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Curiosity, pragmatism, and a desire to build foundational systems that other engineers and AI systems depend on. No degree requirements.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience