What Staff Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 83 open Staff Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, cloud, python.
Updated November 1, 2026
83 open Staff Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 83 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 78% |
| cloud | 64% |
| python | 60% |
| analytics | 49% |
| observability | 49% |
| aws | 47% |
| data-pipelines | 45% |
| distributed-systems | 42% |
| machine-learning | 41% |
| sql | 41% |
| data-modeling | 40% |
| kubernetes | 40% |
| data-engineering | 37% |
| spark | 37% |
| airflow | 34% |
| etl | 34% |
| kafka | 33% |
| ci-cd | 30% |
| data-governance | 30% |
| gcp | 30% |
| java | 30% |
| snowflake | 30% |
| automation | 29% |
| dbt | 29% |
| data-quality | 28% |
| agentic-ai | 25% |
| terraform | 25% |
| api | 23% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 23% |
| bigquery | 22% |
| databricks | 22% |
| data-warehousing | 22% |
| postgresql | 22% |
| azure | 20% |
| docker | 20% |
| data-science | 19% |
| llm | 18% |
| flink | 17% |
| servicenow | 17% |
| redshift | 16% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Data Engineering levels
Most Data Engineering postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- sql 2,722
- python 2,553
- cloud 2,200
- data-engineering 2,118
- ai 1,881
- analytics 1,694
- data-pipelines 1,573
- etl 1,540
- azure 1,491
- data-quality 1,393
- ci-cd 1,367
- databricks 1,356