Data Platform Engineer

596 US job postings, 288 of them in the 30 days to 2026-10-28. Data as of 2026-10-29.

Skills employers ask for

Python — 18% of postings
SQL — 15% of postings
Amazon Web Services — 12% of postings
Data Pipelines — 11% of postings
Spark — 10% of postings
CI/CD — 9% of postings
Terraform — 9% of postings
Infrastructure As Code — 9% of postings
Microsoft Azure — 9% of postings
Airflow — 8% of postings

Where the jobs are

California — 17%
Illinois — 17%
New York — 16%
Texas — 15%
Washington — 12%
Massachusetts — 8%
Virginia — 3%

Advertised pay

Annual pay: median $160K/yr, middle half $138K/yr to $195K/yr (103 postings)

Remote, hybrid or onsite

Of 563 postings that state it: 39% remote, 29% hybrid, 31% onsite.

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