Senior Data Engineer Jobs
US data engineer openings tagged senior by the employer. Senior is the deepest tier in the catalog (about 1,000 active listings at any time) and the band where comp, scope, and remote flexibility all step up materially. The success-odds score on each card factors in your concept vector versus the listing's required skills.
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Senior Data Engineer Jobs
Senior US data engineer listings scored against your profile, with salary, Glassdoor, and layoff signals on every card.
Frequently asked questions
- How many senior data engineer jobs are listed at once?
- Around 1,000 active senior-tagged listings at any time. This is the largest seniority slice in the DE catalog, larger than entry, mid, and staff combined. The volume reflects industry hiring patterns: most companies want senior engineers to scope and own pipelines, with juniors and mids supporting.
- What years of experience separate senior from mid-level for these jobs?
- The catalog uses the employer-declared seniority, not YoE. In practice, senior-tagged DE roles in this catalog ask for 5 to 8 years of total data engineering or adjacent backend experience. Mid-level roles ask for 2 to 5. The boundary is fuzzy and varies by company; Meta's L4 (senior) and Stripe's L4 (mid-senior) overlap in scope.
- Do senior data engineer roles include people management?
- Mostly no. Senior DE is an individual-contributor track at most US companies. Tech-lead or lead-engineer titles add some project ownership but rarely include direct reports. Engineering manager titles, when they show up in the catalog, are tagged separately by the role-category field and do not appear under senior DE filters.
- What pay range should I expect for senior data engineer roles?
- US senior DE base typically ranges from $160K to $230K, with total comp from $210K to $400K at big tech and $200K to $300K at well-funded startups. The salary-band column on each listing shows the posted range when the employer disclosed it. Unposted ranges show null.
- What technical signal matters most for senior data engineer interviews?
- Pipeline system design. Senior loops at most companies replace a chunk of the SQL screen time with whiteboard or doc-based design questions: build a clickstream pipeline at 1B events per day, build a CDC pipeline for an OLTP database, build a feature store. Practice four to six end-to-end designs before the on-site.
- Are senior data engineer jobs more likely to be remote than entry-level ones?
- Materially more. About 60 to 70 percent of remote-flagged listings on the DE catalog target senior or above. Companies that gave up on remote for juniors and mids still allow it for senior engineers because the negotiating leverage flipped. Combine the seniority senior filter with Remote on the left rail to see the set.
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