Top skills for Staff Data Engineer jobs

Based on 82 active Staff Data Engineer postings · updated Oct 8, 2026.

Skills employers ask for

The share of Staff Data Engineer postings that list each skill. Text that appears in almost every posting — equal-opportunity and benefits sections — is left out.

  • Design85%
  • Data Engineering80%
  • Analytics72%
  • CI/CD49%
  • Computer Science47%
  • Business43%
  • Data Quality43%
  • Automation33%
  • Data Modeling33%
  • Data Science32%
  • Warehousing32%
  • Data Systems31%
  • Innovation28%
  • Technical Leadership28%
  • Data Processing26%
  • Datasets25%
  • Driven20%
  • Big Data19%
  • Powering19%
  • Data Lake17%
  • Use Cases17%
  • Data Structures16%
  • Data Transformation16%
  • Debugging16%
  • Mentorship16%

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