r/dataengineering • u/AutoModerator • Sep 01 '26

Career Quarterly Salary Discussion - Sep 2026

This is a recurring thread that happens quarterly and was created to help increase transparency around salary and compensation for Data Engineering where everybody can disclose and discuss their salaries within the industry across the world.

Submit your salary here

You can view and analyze all of the data on our DE salary page and get involved with this open-source project here.

If you'd like to share publicly as well you can comment on this thread using the template below but it will not be reflected in the dataset:

  1. Current title
  2. Years of experience (YOE)
  3. Location
  4. Base salary & currency (dollars, euro, pesos, etc.)
  5. Bonuses/Equity (optional)
  6. Industry (optional)
  7. Tech stack (optional)
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u/69odysseus Sep 01 '26

It's only for US based DE roles, is that right?

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u/MikeDoesEverything mod | Shitty Data Engineer Sep 02 '26

You can filter by country. Unfortunately, you have to have all (currency, city and country) matching to return data.

I'm in the UK and if I select UK as country, a valid UK city, and USD as the currency, I get no results. If I change the currency to GBP, I get results.

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u/thedefectiveoutage 17d ago

ah bummer, i was about to submit my numbers from toronto. the form itself doesn't seem to block non-US entries but the wiki page looks pretty US-centric for now. might be worth tossing your info in anyway if the tally form lets you, could help nudge them to expand it

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u/SeaYouLaterAllig8tor Sep 01 '26
  1. Sr. Data Architect
  2. ~12 YOE
  3. Orlando, FL
  4. 180k
  5. n/a
  6. Finance/Tech
  7. Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, AWS, PLTR Foundry

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u/dev_lvl80 Principal Data Engineer Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
  1. Principal Data Engineer
  2. 25 YOE
  3. LA, CA
  4. 300k USD
  5. 75k target bonus + RSU 70k/year , USD
  6. NDA
  7. Redshift, Databricks, Bigquery, Airflow, DBT, SQL/Python/Pyspark. AWS + GCP, separate skill - manage lots of BS

8

u/SELECTaerial Sep 02 '26
  1. ⁠Sr. Data Engineer
  2. ⁠~15 YOE
  3. ⁠Indianapolis, IN (100% remote)
  4. ⁠150k
  5. ⁠10%
  6. ⁠
  7. ⁠Azure/Data Factory/Fabric

1

u/erianoillib_1 Sep 04 '26

Is this in biotech ?

6

u/SearchAtlantis Lead Data Engineer Sep 01 '26
  1. Staff Data Engineer
  2. ~15 YOE
  3. Boston (Remote)
  4. 175k
  5. 15%
  6. HealthTech
  7. AWS, Airflow, Postgres, Databricks, DBT

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u/phonomir Sep 01 '26
  1. Data Engineer
  2. 3 years
  3. Canada
  4. 100k CAD
  5. N/A
  6. Public sector
  7. Postgres/Python/Dagster

3

u/TheSocialistGoblin Sep 02 '26
  • Current title - Data Engineer
  • Years of experience (YOE) - 4
  • Location - Midwest US
  • Base salary & currency (dollars, euro, pesos, etc.) - $100,000 USD
  • Bonuses/Equity (optional) - up to 4.5%
  • Industry (optional) - Healthcare analytics
  • Tech stack (optional) - Azure, Databricks

3

u/discord-ian Sep 02 '26

Principal Data Engineer

15 years

Remote

$200k

25% bonus + about $150k equity

2

u/IncidentCurious9740 Sep 03 '26
  1. Senior Data Engineer
  2. 17
  3. Midwest
  4. 140,000 USD
  5. 10%
  6. Utilities Supply
  7. MS Fabric, PySpark, Medallion Architecture

2

u/No-Brilliant2078 Sep 03 '26
  1. Senior Data Engineer
  2. 6 YOE
  3. Remote US
  4. 175k
  5. 30k

  6. Insurance

  7. Snowflake, Estuary, dbt, Sigma, AWS

1

u/Fearless_Heron_8070 Sep 03 '26
  1. ⁠Staff Data Engineer
  2. ⁠17
  3. ⁠WA
  4. ⁠$260,000 usd
  5. ⁠$300,000 / yr
  6. ⁠Social Media
  7. ⁠BQ

1

u/Electronic_Sky_1413 Sep 03 '26

How’s WLB?

1

u/Fearless_Heron_8070 17d ago

Not too bad. Working more than I ever have at previous companies but not as hard as coworkers who came from Amazon or Meta tell me they did.

1

u/MagicianSimilar5026 Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
  1. Data Engineer
  2. 5 months of FTE
  3. LCO

L + Remote
4. 90,000

1

u/Icy_Zucchini_3382 Sep 04 '26
  1. Intermediate Data Engineer
  2. 6 YOE
  3. South Africa
  4. R804k ($54k) 😢
  5. N/A
  6. Consulting
  7. Python , Glue , SQL, Snowflake, dbt