What Staff Data Engineering Jobs Ask For
Across 265 open Staff Data Engineering postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, cloud, python.
Updated October 28, 2026
266 open Staff Data Engineering postings. The percentages below are measured over the 265 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 79% |
| cloud | 75% |
| python | 71% |
| analytics | 68% |
| sql | 60% |
| data-engineering | 57% |
| data-pipelines | 56% |
| observability | 55% |
| aws | 51% |
| data-quality | 47% |
| machine-learning | 46% |
| airflow | 45% |
| ci-cd | 40% |
| dbt | 39% |
| spark | 39% |
| data-modeling | 39% |
| kafka | 38% |
| api | 35% |
| snowflake | 34% |
| automation | 31% |
| distributed-systems | 29% |
| etl | 29% |
| terraform | 29% |
| data-science | 27% |
| kubernetes | 27% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 26% |
| gcp | 26% |
| databricks | 26% |
| agentic-ai | 25% |
| bigquery | 25% |
| data-governance | 25% |
| data-warehousing | 23% |
| s3 | 23% |
| azure | 22% |
| java | 21% |
| lakehouse | 21% |
| dagster | 20% |
| elt | 18% |
| event-driven-architecture | 18% |
| llm | 17% |
"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 6,613
- python 6,359
- cloud 5,938
- data-engineering 5,477
- analytics 5,027
- ai 4,969
- data-pipelines 4,358
- data-quality 3,986
- etl 3,910
- aws 3,820
- ci-cd 3,572
- azure 3,568