Entry-level data engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: 22 open roles
22 open entry-level data engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $194,500 a year. A data engineer builds the pipelines that move and store data so analysts and scientists can use it. Entry roles maintain and extend existing pipelines.
Open entry-level data engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA
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- Data Engineer
11x.ai · San Francisco, CA
$170k–$200k · Nov 6, 2026
- Data Engineer, Payments
CapitalG · San Francisco, CA
Nov 5, 2026
- Data Engineer
Sigma · San Francisco, CA
$140k–$180k · Nov 4, 2026
- Data Engineer
Eli Lilly · San Francisco, CA
$158k–$231k · Nov 4, 2026
- Data Engineer
Brain Trust · San Francisco, CA
Nov 3, 2026
- Snowflake Data Engineer
CloudHive · San Francisco, CA
Nov 3, 2026
- Data Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA
$235k–$385k · Nov 2, 2026
- Data Engineer / HubSpot Consultant
The Fountain Group · San Francisco, CA
Nov 2, 2026
- Data Engineer
IVP · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Clinical Data Engineer, Pipeline & Analytics (Junior)
University of California, San Francisco · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Security Data Engineer
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA
$320k–$405k · Oct 26, 2026
- Data Engineer, Business Units - Go
Grammarly · San Francisco, CA, USA, Seattle, WA, USA
Oct 23, 2026
- Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–$445k · Oct 1, 2026
- Data Engineer
Campfire · San Francisco
$150k–$220k · Sep 18, 2026
- Data Engineer
Sigma Computing · San Francisco, CA
Jul 23, 2026
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Search all data engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA · What a data engineer does and the skills it takes
The data engineer job in San Francisco, CA
The job is the same anywhere; what changes is who is hiring.
A typical day
- 1. Build and fix data pipelines
- 2. Write SQL and Python
- 3. Monitor jobs and failures
- 4. Test data quality
- 5. Document tables
Skills it uses
- 1. SQL
- 2. Python
- 3. Data modeling basics
- 4. Cloud data tools
- 5. Git
- 6. Debugging
Employers hiring in San Francisco, CA
- Anthropic 2
- Atlassian 2
- OpenAI 2
- 11x.ai 1
- Amazon 1
- baseten 1
- Brain Trust 1
- Campfire 1
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