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Data Engineering salary in San Francisco

Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026

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Data Engineering pay in San Francisco is measured from 49 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 27 postings put the middle half between $181,125 and $232,500, with a median of $205,000.

By level here, the medians run mid-level $211,250 and senior $205,000.

Against the 14 other measured markets for data engineering at senior, this sits highest; New York leads at $182,000.

52 data engineering roles are open in San Francisco right now, 46 listing pay.

Level	Market range	Median	Sample
Mid	$181,250 – $299,375	$211,250	22
Senior	$181,125 – $232,500	$205,000	27

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 engineering roles in San Francisco · 46 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, $144,000–$342,000scale $80,000–$480,000

Senior Semantic Data Engineer Prologis · San Francisco New $130,000–$178,000 1d ago

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

Senior Manager, Data Platform - T0 Airwallex · San Francisco $255,000–$300,000 3w 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

Data Platform Engineer Figma · San Francisco $153,000–$376,000 4w ago

Senior Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise Systems Astranis · San Francisco $145,000–$210,000 5w 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/Senior Data Engineer Simbe Robotics · San Francisco $135,000–$170,000 5w ago

Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue OpenAI · San Francisco $459,000–$536,000 5w ago

Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Afresh · Remote · US $168,000–$250,000 6w ago

Data Platform Engineer Mercor · San Francisco $160,000–$500,000 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

Sr. Data Infrastructure & Quality Engineer Ouster · San Francisco $140,000–$200,000 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

Senior AI Data Pipeline Engineer (Autonomous Driving) 42dot · San Francisco $133,000–$254,000 5mo ago Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering Lila Sciences · San Francisco $260,000–$390,000 6mo ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (Databricks AI) Databricks · San Francisco $166,000–$225,000 6mo 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 Director, Customer Data Engineering Gap Inc · Dallas-Coppell/Vari $184,550–$236,675^e 4w ago

Data Engineer, Data Foundations Cohere · Remote · US $130,000–$185,500^e 2mo ago

Customer Data Engineer Gridsight · San Francisco $181,250–$299,375^e 3mo ago

Senior Data Engineer, Risk Block · San Francisco In listing 3mo ago

Forward Deployed Data Engineer Vori · San Francisco $181,250–$299,375^e 8mo ago Senior Data Modeler/Data Architect + Big Data/Hadoop---------------Need GC and USC USM · San Francisco $181,125–$232,500^e 10y ago