Data Engineering at SoFi
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L5 senior data engineer at SoFi sits around $268K total comp from 21 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Snowflake, Airflow and CI/CD, according to current job listings. SoFi pays data engineers above other Finance companies. Reviews put them at 4.3 on Glassdoor, among the highest of any company here. Employee sentiment at SoFi reads neutral and employee happiness is trending up over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 16 data engineering roles are open right now.
SoFi data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual SoFi 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.
SoFi 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.
Recent SoFi events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureJan 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureMar 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJan 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
SoFi data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools SoFi data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQLSoFi data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Design and implement scalable frameworks, templates, and standards across onboarding, incident response, semantic layers, dbt modeling, observability, governance, and data validation practices.
Own the data pipeline and infrastructure - architect and manage end-to-end data pipelines using dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, MongoDB, and Terraform; ensure reliability, performance, and scalability
SoFi is seeking enthusiastic Senior Software Engineers who are ready to lead the development of key advancement to the next generation of our financial services platform.
Design scalable data models that support analytics, AI/ML and real-time data needs.
Practice for the SoFi loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the SoFi loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare SoFi with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at SoFi interview difficulty
- 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
- 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
- 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