Data Engineer salary 2026
Remote Data Engineer roles advertise a median of $229K a year, based on 22 open postings that publish pay.
$229KMedian
$196K–$323KMiddle 50%
$167K–$498KFull range
22Postings
By candidate region
Median of published ranges, grouped by where the posting accepts applicants from.
Worldwide
$248K
18 roles
North America
$210K
4 roles
Highest-paying open roles
Live postings, ranked by the midpoint of their published range.
1
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue · OpenAI
$459K - $536K
2
Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices · OpenAI
$295K - $445K
3
Data Engineer, Core Experimentation · OpenAI
$347K - $385K
4
Senior Staff Data Engineer · Cohere
$275K - $450K
5
Data Engineer · Mercor
$160K - $500K
6
Analytics Engineer · Mercor
$250K - $400K
7
Principal Data Engineer, Data Quality & Datasets Pipelines · Wayve
$290K - $340K
8
Data Engineer · OpenAI
$235K - $385K
9
Analytics Engineer, GTM · OpenAI
$220K - $335K
10
Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) · Perplexity
$175K - $330K
How this is calculated: we take every currently open Data Engineer posting on the board whose title matches the role and that publishes a salary range in US dollars, use the midpoint of each range, and report the median and percentiles. Postings without pay, or with pay in another currency, are excluded — nothing is estimated. Refreshed with every daily job update.
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