How many Data Engineer jobs are open?

We currently track 26 active Data Engineer job postings from 7 companies (dataset: public employer career pages, updated Sep 29, 2026).

What skills does a Data Engineer need?

The most requested skills in current Data Engineer postings are: Python, System Design, SQL, dbt, Spark, Airflow.

Data Engineer

Builds the pipelines and infrastructure that move and store data at scale.

Also seen as: Analytics Engineer, Data Platform Engineer

open jobs tracked

companies hiring

remote openings

$120.8K–440K

advertised range

Market status: established · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory

What does a Data Engineer do?

Data Engineers build and maintain the systems that collect, store, transform and serve data: ETL/ELT pipelines, warehouse and lakehouse architecture, streaming systems and data quality tooling. AI workloads depend heavily on this layer for training and evaluation data.

Job titles we classify into this role

Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a Data Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.

Data Engineer Intern (2027) Figma
Data Platform Engineer Figma
Recruiting Analytics Data Engineer Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, RL Data Platform Anthropic
Data Engineer Asana
Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform Figma
Software Engineer - X Data Engineering xAI
Senior Data Engineer, Public Sector Scale AI

Title variants normalized into this role: Analytics Engineer · Data Platform Engineer — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.