Data Platform Engineer: market
A Data Platform Engineer builds the data platform all data teams run on: warehouses and lakehouses, orchestration, streaming, catalogs, access and self-service. We currently track 445 open positions for this role, 411 of them fresh. Postings expect data-engineering experience plus infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Spark, cloud storage and Python or Scala programming. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, Kafka, AWS and Iceberg appear most often. 44% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Data Platform Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Data Platform Engineer market currently has 445 open roles, 411 of them freshly observed. Median salary $2,989/mo.
44% of Data Platform Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 73 of 445 jobs; remote share from 402 with a stated format; 411 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Data Platform Engineer postings appeared each week since May 11, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 82
New sources connected: May 18 +1 · May 25 +1 · Jun 1 +4 · Jun 8 +1 · Jun 15 +4 · Jun 22 +2 · Jun 29 +8 · Jul 6 +6 · Jul 13 +5 · Jul 20 +5 · Jul 27 +3 · Aug 10 +1 · Aug 17 +2 · Aug 24 +2 · Aug 31 +3 · Sep 7 +1 · Sep 14 +1 · Sep 21 +6 · Sep 28 +3 · Oct 5 +3 · Oct 12 +10 · Oct 19 +8
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Data Platform Engineer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Data Platform Engineer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on Aug 10: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Data Platform Engineer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Data Platform Engineer
| Open demand | 445 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Data Platform Engineer
One in ten earns under $2,989, one in ten over $16,083. Half the market falls between $2,989 and $9,510. Sample: 73.
The range histogram for Data Platform Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Data Platform Engineer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 90 |
| PL | 68 |
| GB | 33 |
| DE | 32 |
| IN | 20 |
| CA | 13 |
| SG | 13 |
| NL | 8 |
| FR | 8 |
| ES | 7 |
The top country for Data Platform Engineer demand is the US (90 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Data Platform Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, Kafka, AWS and Iceberg.
Demand by grade: Data Platform Engineer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 189 |
| principal | 34 |
| middle | 24 |
| lead | 13 |
| junior | 1 |
Senior-and-above is about 90% of 261 Data Platform Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Data Platform Engineer
Demand is spread across 254 employers. The largest accounts for 21.0%, the top ten for 30.1%; the remaining 69.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 21.0% |
| top-3 | 23.8% |
| top-10 | 30.1% |
| long tail | 69.9% |
Data Platform Engineer openings come from 254 distinct employers.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 49 sources; the largest accounts for 22.0% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Data Platform Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Data Platform Engineer
- Senior Data Platform Engineer · US · $15,208
- Data Infrastructure Engineer – Storage & Platforms · US
- Data Infrastructure Engineer – Storage & Platforms (Chicago) · US
- Data Platform Developer · GB · $5,254
- Lead Data Platform Engineer (Manager / Architect) · US
- Lead Data Platform Engineer · DE
- Data Platform Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Services
- Data Platform Engineer · CA
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-27
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Data Platform Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Data Platform Engineer do?
A Data Platform Engineer builds the data platform all data teams run on: warehouses and lakehouses, orchestration, streaming, catalogs, access and self-service.
Which skills do Data Platform Engineer postings require?
Postings expect data-engineering experience plus infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Spark, cloud storage and Python or Scala programming. In the current slice, Python, Kafka, AWS and Iceberg appear in requirements most often.
How does a Data Platform Engineer differ from a Data Engineer?
A Data Engineer builds specific pipelines; a platform engineer builds the tools and infrastructure all teams build those pipelines on.
How remote-friendly are Data Platform Engineer jobs?
44% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 445 open positions.
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