Data Engineering at Intuitive

Roles, Comp & Culture

An L6 staff data engineer at Intuitive sits around $404K total comp from 46 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes, according to current job listings. Intuitive pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 4.1 on Glassdoor, among the highest of any company here. Intuitive employees are stressed and employee happiness is trending down over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 1 data engineering role is open right now.

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Intuitive data engineer compensation

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

L3Entry$151Kmedian
Base$106KRange$144K–$169KReports7 · 0-2 yrsIntuitive loop →
L4Mid$228Kmedian
Base$156KRange$173K–$263KReports24 · 2-5 yrsIntuitive loop →
L5Senior$233Kmedian
Base$181KRange$213K–$287KReports12 · 5-10 yrsIntuitive loop →
L6Staff$404Kmedian
Base$220KRange$404K–$427KReports3 · 8-15 yrsIntuitive loop →
Updated 46 verified salary reports

Intuitive 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.

Stressedtrending down over the past year
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Updated Intuitive employee happiness

Intuitive data engineering tech stack

The languages, storage, and processing tools Intuitive data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.

Languages
Python
Orchestration
Airflow
Infra
Docker
Kubernetes
Updated from current job listings

Intuitive data engineer job openings

A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.

Intuitive
Open roles
Intuitive data engineer · live from career pages
1
open roles
Where they hire
San Francisco Bay Area
1
Levels hiring
L51
Updated 1 open listing across 1 city

Preparing for the Intuitive loop

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

Compare Intuitive with other data engineering employers

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

02 / Why practice

Prepare at Intuitive 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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