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Key facts
Shortlist
48 hours
Typical time to hire
18–35 days
Talent availability
Moderate supply
Our screen
Skills we vet for data engineers
Data engineering hires fail when pipelines look fine in a demo and fall over at scale. We screen for ownership of production pipelines, data quality and cost.
| Skill | How we evidence it |
|---|---|
| SQL and data modelling | A modelling exercise on a realistic schema |
| Spark / distributed processing | Discussion of partitioning, skew and job tuning they have done |
| Orchestration | Airflow, Dagster or similar: how they handled retries and backfills |
| Cloud data platforms | Hands-on depth in Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift |
| Data quality | Tests, contracts and incident handling for bad data |
Salary bands
Data engineers salaries by city
Fixed annual CTC by experience. Use these to sanity-check your budget before you brief us.
Junior
1–3 yrs
Mid
3–6 yrs
Senior
6–10 yrs
Lead
10+ yrs
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| Level | Pune | Bengaluru | Hyderabad |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior (1–3 yrs) | ₹8–15 LPA | ₹9–17 LPA | ₹8–16 LPA |
| Mid (3–6 yrs) | ₹15–29 LPA | ₹17–32 LPA | ₹16–30 LPA |
| Senior (6–10 yrs) | ₹27–48 LPA | ₹30–54 LPA | ₹28–50 LPA |
| Lead (10+ yrs) | ₹43–71 LPA | ₹49–81 LPA | ₹45–75 LPA |
Indicative ranges compiled by Emplyify from market data, Q4 2026. They are a starting point for budgeting, not an offer benchmark; our Talent Index will replace them with pipeline data.
Sample interview loop
A loop that respects candidates' time
1. Recruiter screen · 30 min
Motivation, notice period, CTC, must-have skills
2. Technical deep-dive · 60 min
Past systems, trade-offs, depth on core skills
3. Practical exercise · 60–90 min
Live problem or take-home review, never unpaid multi-day work
4. Hiring manager · 45 min
Team fit, ownership, communication
Screening questions we ask
- “Walk us through the largest pipeline you owned. What failed most often?”
- “How did you handle a late-arriving or corrupt data incident?”
- “How did you reduce the cost of a data platform?”
- “Batch or streaming for this use case — and why?”
Hiring data engineers: questions
Do you hire analytics engineers as well?
Yes. Tell us in the brief whether the role sits closer to dbt and the warehouse or to Spark and platform work; the screen is different.
Can you hire for a specific platform such as Databricks?
Yes. We mark platform depth as a must-have and evidence it on every dossier.
Two-minute brief
Hiring data engineers?
We've pre-filled the role. A recruiter replies within 4 business hours; your shortlist follows within 48 hours.