Data engineer salary, in real numbers

Posted data engineer base bands cluster between about $130k and $210k at mid level — Google $130,000–$187,000, Amazon $132,100–$178,800, DoorDash $130,600–$192,000, Meta $147,000–$208,000, Uber $171,000–$190,000 — with senior bands from $138,942 (Atlassian’s lowest pay zone) to $285,600 (Stripe) and Netflix’s all-cash $380,000–$610,000 in a market of its own. Equity does the rest where it exists: levels.fyi puts total compensation at $173k–$225k at Amazon L5, $236k–$415k at Meta, $244k–$307k at Google, $308k–$385k at DoorDash and $515k–$650k at Netflix. Every band below comes from a live posting, levels.fyi or a dated public source.

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Every posted data engineer salary band

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#	Company	Base salary (posted)	Total comp (est.)
1	Meta	$147k–$208k	$236k–$415k
2	Netflix	$380k–$610k	$515k–$650k
3	Amazon	$132k–$179k	$173k–$225k
4	Airbnb	$179k–$210k	$408k–$523k
5	Databricks	$166k–$225k	—
6	Apple	$129k–$225k	—
7	Google	$130k–$187k	$245k–$307k
8	Atlassian	$139k–$219k	—
9	Stripe	$206k–$286k	—
10	DoorDash	$131k–$192k	$308k–$385k
11	Microsoft	$120k–$235k	$208k–$238k
12	Uber	$171k–$190k	—

Posted base bands, compared

Netflix

$380k–$610k

Stripe

$206k–$286k

Microsoft

$120k–$235k

Apple

$129k–$225k

Databricks

$166k–$225k

Atlassian

$139k–$219k

Airbnb

$179k–$210k

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For a mid-level data engineer at a large US tech company, posted base bands centre on roughly $130k–$210k: Google $130,000–$187,000, Amazon Data Engineer II $132,100–$178,800, DoorDash I4 $130,600–$192,000, Meta $147,000–$208,000 and Uber SWE II $171,000–$190,000. levels.fyi medians with equity run from about $205k at Amazon L5 and $217k at Microsoft to $316k at DoorDash and $460k at Airbnb (a senior-heavy sample).

Netflix: $380,000–$610,000 at L5 and $510,000–$820,000 for its Staff Ads data engineer reqs, all salary with no bonus, and a levels.fyi 25th–75th percentile of $515k–$650k. Among companies that hire mid-level, Meta’s $236k–$415k and DoorDash’s $308k–$385k lead on total compensation; Stripe posts the highest non-Netflix base at $206,086–$285,600 for its senior data-platform backend req.

At the same company and level, slightly less or the same. Amazon’s Data Engineer II band ($132,100–$178,800) sits below its SDE II band, Meta’s and Google’s data engineer bands run a little under their software bands, and Microsoft’s senior DE band ($119,800–$234,700) matches its senior SWE band. Where data engineering is hired as software engineering — Databricks, Uber, Stripe, DoorDash — the pay is the software band by definition, which is why those four post some of the higher bases here.

No. Several bands span more than one level — Apple’s $129,300–$225,300 covers several ICT levels and Atlassian’s $138,942–$218,550 runs from its lowest to highest pay zone — and offers land by level and location (Amazon posts $132,100–$178,800 in Seattle but $160,113–$196,600 in New York; Microsoft and Atlassian post separate Bay Area, New York and zone bands). Netflix is the exception: because it pays salary only, its band is effectively the whole offer.

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