Data Engineer salary in San Francisco
Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026
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Data Engineer pay in San Francisco is measured from 37 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 19 postings put the middle half between $186,125 and $222,750, with a median of $209,000.
Pay rises with seniority here: the medians run mid-level $205,000 and senior $209,000. Moving from mid-level to senior is worth roughly 2% more.
Against the 10 other measured markets for data engineer at senior, this sits highest; New York leads at $180,000.
40 data engineer roles are open in San Francisco right now, 36 listing pay.
| Level | Market range | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | $163,750 – $286,788 | $205,000 | 18 |
| Senior | $186,125 – $222,750 | $209,000 | 19 |
Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above.
Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.
Open data engineer roles in San Francisco · 36 with stated pay
Pay marked e is our estimate. Everything else is the employer's own figure.
this job's payour estimatewhere most pay sits here, $145,000–$300,000scale $80,000–$420,000
Data Engineer, Billing & Payments Anthropic · San Francisco $320,000–$405,000 12d ago 
Senior Data Engineer Rad AI · San Francisco $145,000–$200,000 12d ago Data Engineer, Product Anthropic · San Francisco $320,000–$405,000 2w ago 
Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform Turo · San Francisco $182,000–$228,000 2w ago 
Senior Data Engineer (San Francisco) Airwallex · San Francisco $160,000–$260,000 2w ago 
Data Engineer WorkOS · Remote · US $175,000–$240,000 2w ago 
Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices OpenAI · San Francisco $295,000–$445,000 3w ago 
Data Engineer Cyvl · Somerville $125,000–$195,000 3w ago 
AI Data Engineer, Data Platform Collective · San Francisco $180,000–$230,000 4w ago 
Senior Data Engineer HealthLeap · San Francisco $175,000–$275,000 4w ago Staff Data Engineer Illumina · San Diego $141,600–$212,400 4w ago 
Staff Data Engineer Drata · San Francisco $165,000–$270,000 4w ago 
Senior Data Engineer Formation Bio · New York $185,500–$232,000 5w ago 
Data Engineer You.com · San Francisco $180,000–$220,000 5w ago 
Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Afresh · Remote · US $168,000–$250,000 6w ago Data Engineer, GTM Anthropic · San Francisco $320,000–$405,000 6w ago 
Data Engineer Stuut · San Francisco $150,000–$200,000 7w ago Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials Lila Sciences · San Francisco $144,000–$240,000 7w ago 
Founding Data Engineer Broccoli AI · San Francisco $180,000–$230,000 2mo ago 
Staff Data Engineer - US Teleport · Remote · US $222,000–$342,000 2mo ago 
Forward Deployed Data Engineer (Integration) Hilbert's AI · San Francisco $140,000–$170,000 2mo ago 
Data Engineer Sigma Computing · New York $140,000–$180,000 3mo ago Data Engineer Sigma Computing · San Francisco $140,000–$180,000 3mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer CoreWeave · Livingston $182,000–$242,000 3mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer Regard · New York $165,000–$220,000 3mo ago Data Engineer Regard · New York $160,000–$190,000 4mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer Discord · San Francisco $196,000–$245,000 5mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer Gallup · San Francisco $220,000–$260,000 5mo ago 
Data Engineer Mercor · San Francisco $160,000–$500,000 5mo ago 
Data Engineer Baseten · San Francisco $180,000–$250,000 7mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer Triumph · San Francisco $200,000–$400,000 7mo ago 
Data Engineer Brex · San Francisco $120,800–$151,000 9mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer EliseAI · New York $240,000–$300,000 1y ago 
Data Engineer Air Apps · San Francisco $111,000–$196,000 1y ago Data Engineer OpenAI · San Francisco $235,000–$385,000 3y ago 
Data Engineer, Data Foundations Cohere · Remote · US $130,000–$185,500e 2mo ago 
Customer Data Engineer Gridsight · San Francisco $181,250–$299,375e 3mo ago 
Senior Data Engineer, Risk Block · San Francisco In listing 3mo ago 
Forward Deployed Data Engineer Vori · San Francisco $181,250–$299,375e 8mo ago