Google Data Engineer jobs
Google’s titled data engineers are few: three reqs, hybrid, and no entry-level track.
The Data Engineer role
Google data engineers build and own data products, pipelines and data-quality frameworks for specific product areas (Merchant Shopping, gTech users and products, Google.org) rather than a central DE org. Most similar work sits under Software Engineer titles, so ‘Data Engineer’ reqs are few and tend to require 3–5+ years. Pay is posted as base plus a 15% bonus target and equity.
Small and niche: only three ‘Data Engineer’-titled US reqs, spread across gTech, Ads/Merchant Shopping and Google.org, with data engineering folded into the Software Engineer family (levels.fyi lists Data Engineer under Software Engineer, L3–L6, 63 submissions); platforms named in reqs include BigQuery, Dataflow and Flume.
Google data engineer salary
Base: the posted US range on the 3+ year ‘Data Engineer, Merchant Shopping’ req (level not stated) with a 15% bonus target plus equity, read Oct 10, 2026; the two Senior Data Engineer reqs post $156,000–$226,000 with the same bonus target. All-in: levels.fyi Google Data Engineer, US, 25th–75th percentile (n=18, 63 submissions overall), Oct 2026; level averages are $276k at L4 (base $181k) and $291k at L5.
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