Data Engineering at Travelers
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L6 staff data engineer at Travelers sits around $174K total comp from 9 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of AWS, Databricks and Snowflake, according to current job listings. Travelers pays data engineers in line with other Insurance companies. Reviews put them at 4.2 on Glassdoor, among the highest of any company here. Employee sentiment at Travelers reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 14 data engineering roles are open right now.
Travelers data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Travelers 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.
Travelers 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 Travelers events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureFeb 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureMay 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Travelers data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Travelers data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQL
IcebergTravelers data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommend data cleansing/quality solutions.
Advanced proficiency in PySpark for distributed data processing, with the ability to write performant, production-grade code for large-scale batch and/or streaming workloads.
Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommending data cleansing/quality solutions.
Design and build production data pipelines across AWS, Snowflake, Databricks supporting both batch and near real-time analytics workloads.
Lead the design and stewardship of BSI's data governance architecture, data traceability standards, and quality frameworks, alongside oversight of reference and shared data management — with heightened emphasis on data integrity as a critical enabler of AI/ML model training and regulatory reporting.
Build and maintain dbt models, Python pipelines, and Terraform IaC
Design, develop, and deploy solutions for Gen AI data engineering activities, including data ingestion, processing, storage, and analysis.
Preparing for the Travelers loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Travelers with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Travelers 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