Big Data Engineer

494 US job postings, 182 of them in the 30 days to 2026-10-28. Data as of 2026-10-29.

Skills employers ask for

Big Data — 8% of postings
Python — 5% of postings
Spark — 5% of postings
Hadoop — 4% of postings
Java — 4% of postings
Scala — 4% of postings
SQL — 4% of postings
Apache Hive — 4% of postings
Data Pipelines — 4% of postings
Kafka — 3% of postings

Where the jobs are

California — 17%
Texas — 17%
New York — 16%
Massachusetts — 15%
Illinois — 13%
Washington — 13%

Advertised pay

Annual pay: median $125K/yr, middle half $100K/yr to $126K/yr (17 postings)

Remote, hybrid or onsite

Of 483 postings that state it: 43% remote, 28% hybrid, 29% onsite.

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