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Companies making their first Data Engineering hire

1 company has recently posted their first-ever Data Engineering role on their public careers board. A first data engineer means a warehouse is being built: ETL/ELT, warehouse, orchestration, data-quality and reverse-ETL tools.

First Data Engineering hires

First hire · inferred
2026-10-05

Teams scaling Data Engineering fast

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Satispay: Data Engineering hiring surge — 5 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
Analytics Engineer · Milan, Italy
2026-10-05
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Snowflake: Data Engineering hiring surge — 3 roles in 30 days (+200%)
2026-10-05
Surge
OpenAI: Data Engineering hiring surge — 3 roles in 30 days (+200%)
2026-10-05

How we detect a first Data Engineering hire

We classify every posting title into one of 41 role families. Data Engineering covers: data engineers, analytics engineers and data platform. We keep the full history of families each company has ever posted.

  • Observed: the family appeared on a board where we had previously recorded postings and never saw this family.
  • Inferred: on the first crawl of an established board (postings older than 60 days), the family has only 1–2 roles, all posted in the last 21 days.

Currently 203 Data Engineering roles are open across 90 companies — see all companies hiring Data Engineering.

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