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SF data engineers build the pipelines under AI training, FAANG analytics and the densest SaaS data ecosystem globally.
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AI/ML Consultant, 2nd-time Founder, Former Sr SDE @ Amazon
Founding Prod Breaker @browser-use
Devops/Automation guy. I build tools so you don't have to. I build things. Then I break them. Most of the time I fix them again.
20. passionate dev who ships (a lot). 2x acquired founder. I just wanna make products that people love 💖. Working on @supermemoryai
[Cofounder Bridgecard, Backend and Mobile engineer, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Author Anjie python library]
Building @usestrix - Applied Data Scientist @ Microsoft
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Senior SF data engineers own production data pipelines, feature stores and increasingly LLM-training data infrastructure. Strongest candidates have meaningful contributions to Airflow, dbt, Trino, DuckDB or Spark.
Market Insights: Data Engineers in San Francisco
The 2026 SF data engineering market is tight, especially for AI-training-data specialists. Senior IC base $190k-$260k, AI-data leads push past $280k. LinkedIn misses many SF data engineers who are core OSS maintainers - GitHunt indexes them directly.
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