Titlesby GlyphData Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Fading · in 3.0% of HN hiring posts · 151 open roles at 80 companies · median $182k
Builds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.
first seen before 2011, Hacker Newstook off Oct 2014
Why it exists
Written by rule from our own data
Already in the first Who is hiring thread we have (April 2011), so it is older than our data. It took off in October 2014, when its share of Who is hiring posts first reached a quarter of its best year. Today 151 open roles use the title at 80 companies, most of them in AI labs. Closest tracked titles: Analytics Engineer, Big Data Engineer, Data Scientist.
- PostingAsk HN: Who is hiring? (April 2011)Hacker News, Apr 2011 · backs: first sighting
- PostingData Platform EngineerAccenture Federal Services, Nov 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title
Where it is posted
Sectors
- AI lab14
- Software8
- Fintech7
- Data platform6
- AI infrastructure5
- AI application5
- Robotics and autonomy5
- Consumer4
Cities
- San Francisco31
- Washington12
- New York11
- Palo Alto9
- Singapore6
- Seattle6
- Paris, France3
- London, United Kingdom3
- Boston3
- Bengaluru, India3
Countries and remote
- United States99
- India7
- Singapore6
- United Kingdom5
- France3
- Canada3
- Israel3
- Brazil2
- Switzerland1
- Poland1
Remote option25%
Posted pay
Middle half $150k to $226k, median $182k from 82 postings that state a base range (USD a year).
Pay by level and city on SalariesWho is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | ||
| 2 | 14 | ||
| 3 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 7 | ||
| 5 | Anduril IndustriesA company hiring most for Systems Engineer and Test Engineer. | 4 | |
| 6 | Black Canyon ConsultingA company hiring most for Full Stack Engineer and Data Engineer. | 4 | |
| 7 | AmoA company hiring most for Data Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer. | 3 | |
| 8 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 2 | ||
| 12 | 2 |
Open roles
8 of 151; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Platform Engineer | Arlington, VA | $81k to $155k | |
| Senior Staff Data Engineer, Databricks (R6508) | United States | $145k to $220k | |
| Senior Data Engineer, Data Analytics | Remote | $175k to $274k | |
| Data Engineer, GTM Systems | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY; Seattle, WA | $270k to $345k | |
| Lead Data Engineer | Cincinnati, OH; Chicago, IL | $125k to $207k | |
| Product Data EngineerAnduril IndustriesWaltham, Massachusetts, United States$117k to $154k | Anduril Industries | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States | $117k to $154k |
| Senior Data Platform EngineerKomodo HealthSan Francisco, CA$196k to $230k | Komodo Health | San Francisco, CA | $196k to $230k |
| Senior Staff Data Engineer | Toronto | $275k to $450k |
Lineage
the modelling layer moved out of data engineering · source
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
4,352 posts since Apr 2011 · -4% in 6 monthsNovember 2026 3 of 207 postings, 1.4%
Related titles
Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.36% of HN posts, 12 mo · 61 open · $188k median · since Oct 2011Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0% of HN posts, 12 mo · since Dec 2011Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.2% of HN posts, 12 mo · 245 open · $226k median · since May 2011MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.44% of HN posts, 12 mo · 35 open · $250k median · since Feb 2017Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.16% of HN posts, 12 mo · 294 open · $196k median · since Apr 2011Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.7.8% of HN posts, 12 mo · 109 open · $220k median · since May 2011
About this title
Builds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.
Also counted: data platform engineer, ETL developer
First sighting
...'08, NYC) is hiring php developers, designers, and some data engineers. Details here => http://ignighter.com/jobs
Median posted salary $182k from 82 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.