Data Engineer
Brain Trust
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 3, 2026
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Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 143 open data engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $112,500 to $162,500 and the median is $137,500.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among database architects, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for database architects: 58% (high).
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About the job
...to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve. About the Role... ..., and be able to build it. The core of the job is analytics engineering. That means defining the business entities and metrics the company...