Remote Data Engineer Jobs (2026)

Senior is the most common level in this hub, which is unusual on the board. Of the roughly 400 remote data engineer listings live as of September 2026, about 200 are senior roles with five to eight years of experience, about 120 are mid level, around 55 are staff or principal, and only about 16 are lead or manager titles. The mix tilts toward engineers who can own a pipeline end to end without much supervision.

The work is what the title says: building and maintaining batch and streaming pipelines, modeling data in warehouses and lakehouses, and keeping the tables that analytics and machine learning teams depend on correct and on time. Recent titles include senior data engineer, data engineer I, senior growth data engineer and staff data engineer for analytics. Roughly 55 listings were added in the last seven days.

CI&T is the most frequent poster with about 18 listings, and 3Pillar Global, Samsara, DoiT, Kyndryl, Mozilla and Caylent each have between six and nine. Consultancies and cloud partners are well represented, which fits remote hiring. Although every listing is tagged remote, about 63 name the US as the hiring country, 27 name India, 16 Canada and 7 the UK, so check the eligibility line before applying.

About 12 percent of listings state a USD salary; for those, the median midpoint is about $182,250 a year, and most listings do not publish pay. Search this hub with the level filter to separate senior from mid level, and use the keyword box for your stack, such as Spark, dbt, Airflow or Snowflake. The wider data engineer hub includes office based roles, and the dbt AI jobs hub is a narrower tooling cut.