Data Engineer vs Full Stack Developer
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Data Engineer
$149,500 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $126,800 to $175,900 a year.
From 1,286 postings that list pay
2,969 open jobs now
Full Stack Developer
$184,300 typical, a year
Most Full Stack Developers earn $153,600 to $210,000 a year.
From 517 postings that list pay
922 open jobs now
Full Stack Developers typically earn about $34,900 more a year than Data Engineers.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Full Stack Developer
- Design, develop, and test software applications across the full stack.
- Write clean, secure, and maintainable code that meets engineering standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and solutions.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and share knowledge.
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues in development and production environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Data Engineer
Asked for in both
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
Full Stack Developer
Asked for in both
- Python 3 in 10 postings
- AWS 2 in 10 postings
More common in Full Stack Developer postings
- React 4 in 10 postings
- TypeScript 4 in 10 postings
- Full-Stack Development 3 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 2 in 10 postings
- JavaScript 2 in 10 postings
- Java 2 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 2 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Data Engineer
Data Engineer II
Ocient INC$110k - $185k/yrstated Chicago RemoteSnowflakeBigQueryGDPRSQLData Warehousing +12Senior Data Engineering
Rocket Companies, Inc.Pay not stated Detroit, MI RemoteCI/CDSnowflakeGitSQLPython +18Software Data Engineer
Booz Allen$77,600 - $176k/yrstated Honolulu, HI OnsiteUnity CatalogPalantir FoundryData VisualizationDatabricksData Pipeline +12
Full Stack Developer
- Pay not stated San Francisco OnsiteTypeScriptNode.jsReactUX/UI DesignFull-Stack Development +1
Software Development Team Lead
Unnamed employerPay not stated Hudson, OH, 44236 HybridCSSAzureJavaScriptCI/CDTypeScript +18Software Engineer
AlcumusPay not stated Boise, Idaho, Boise, IdahoAngularJavaC#Agile MethodologyTest Planning +2
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