Data Engineering at Amgen
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L6 staff data engineer at Amgen sits around $223K total comp from 30 verified salary datapoints. The ladder runs from about $99K at entry up to $223K. Amgen pays data engineers slightly above other Healthcare companies. Reviews put them at 3.8 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Amgen reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days.
Amgen data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Amgen offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Amgen employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Amgen pays slightly above relative to other Healthcare companies, which is better than most pharma peers but clearly behind big tech at equivalent seniority. The Glassdoor rating of 3.8 is a little above the middle of the pack, and blind sentiment runs mixed, a combination that usually means the work itself is fine and the frustration lives in bureaucracy and pace. Happiness sits neutral and roughly flat, which is roughly what you'd expect from a large, mature biotech: not miserable, not energizing. The trade Amgen offers is stability and mission alignment over velocity and upside. You get a durable employer, meaningful data work with clinical stakes, and pay that holds up in the healthcare segment. What you give up is the engineering autonomy and comp ceiling of a tech company, and the ability to move fast when a compliance review sits between you and a prod deploy.
Recent Amgen events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureApr 2026Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Practice for the Amgen loop
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Preparing for the Amgen loop
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Compare Amgen with other data engineering employers
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Prepare at Amgen interview difficulty
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Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
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76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
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5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition