Data Engineering at AppFolio

Roles, Comp & Culture

An L4 mid data engineer at AppFolio sits around $168K total comp from 5 salary datapoints. AppFolio pays data engineers in line with other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.9 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at AppFolio reads neutral and employee happiness is trending up over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days.

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AppFolio data engineer compensation

Each level's figure is the median of individual AppFolio 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.

L4Mid$168Kmedian
Base$142KRange$142K–$175KReports5 · 2-5 yrsAppFolio loop
Updated 3 verified salary reports + 2 salaries adjusted to total comp

AppFolio 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.

Neutraltrending up over the past year
20252026
Updated AppFolio employee happiness

Recent AppFolio events

Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.

  1. Exec departureApr 2026Leadership change
  2. Exec departureJan 2026Leadership change
  3. Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
  4. Exec departureOct 2025Leadership change
  5. Exec departureAug 2025Leadership change
  6. Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
  7. Exec departureJan 2025Leadership change
Updated 7 AppFolio events

Notable company events we track, with dates.

Preparing for the AppFolio loop

The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.

Compare AppFolio with other data engineering employers

How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.

02 / Why practice

Prepare at AppFolio interview difficulty

  1. 01

    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

  2. 02

    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

  3. 03

    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

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