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Est. Monthly
Estimated €5,282 - €6,908
Posted August 27, 2026 · 0 days agoLast seen August 26, 2026Est. expiry October 1, 2026

Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer
Remote - Americas
Remote · Data & Analytics
Full-time · Senior
English
No People Management
5 years experience
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Salary Context: Data Engineer

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Salary analysis

Compared with the selected benchmark ("All roles in Remote - Americas"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 95% lower. The offer sits below the benchmark range (€3,226–€15,322). The listed pay band (€440–€576) is tighter than the benchmark, which suggests lower salary variability. This benchmark is based on 2 comparable listings.

Monthly salary comparison for Data Engineer
MarketLower bound (25th percentile)MedianUpper bound (75th percentile)
Market Average: Data Engineer€3,000/per month€5,375/per month€7,560/per month
All roles in Remote - Americas€3,226/per month€9,622/per month€15,322/per month
This job's pay range — not quoted in ad (Senior)€440/per month€508/per month€576/per month
About the role

Senior Data Engineer at Alpaca, a distributed, remote-first company building the next generation of our Data Platform. You will design and build the data platform stack, including batch and streaming ingestion, lakehouse architecture, and BI tooling. Responsibilities include designing core infrastructure, managing IaC with Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes, building low-latency ingestion pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability with monitoring and SLAs. The team is 100% distributed and remote. Must have 5+ years in Data Engineering, Kubernetes experience, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), experience with Kafka/Debezium, Iceberg, Airflow, and Python/SQL; GCP experience preferred. Competitive salary and stock options, health benefits, and home-office setup provided.

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