Data Engineering at Peraton Labs

Roles, Comp & Culture

An L5 senior data engineer at Peraton Labs sits around $200K total comp from 9 verified salary datapoints. The ladder runs from about $108K at entry up to $200K. Peraton Labs pays data engineers slightly below other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.4 on Glassdoor, toward the bottom of the pack. Peraton Labs 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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Peraton Labs data engineer compensation

Each level's figure is the median of individual Peraton Labs 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$108Kmedian
Base$106KRange$103K–$121KReports4 · 0-2 yrsPeraton Labs loop
L5Senior$200Kmedian
Base$200KRange$184K–$200KReports5 · 5-10 yrsPeraton Labs loop
Updated 9 verified salary reports

Peraton Labs 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
20252026
Updated Peraton Labs employee happiness

Recent Peraton Labs events

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

  1. LayoffFeb 2026~35 roles cut
  2. LayoffDec 2025~92 roles cut
Updated 2 Peraton Labs events, 2 with headcount

Notable company events we track, with dates.

Peraton Labs data engineering tech stack

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

Languages
Java
SQLSQL
Updated from current job listings

Peraton Labs data engineer job openings

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

Preparing for the Peraton Labs loop

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

Compare Peraton Labs with other data engineering employers

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

02 / Why practice

Prepare at Peraton Labs 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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