Hadoop salary: $214K median
From 50 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$214Kmedian advertised salary
$194K – $255Kmiddle half of roles
$224Kaverage advertised salary
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Hadoop salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $226K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸California | $226K | 28 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $214K | 49 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| xAI | $226K | 4 |
| $224K | 7 | |
| Databricks | $214K | 19 |
| Starburst | $140K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Hadoop roles
All Hadoop jobs- Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & StorageRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLeadC++C#GCP
- Manager II, Machine Learning Engineering-Content FoundationPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US$223K - $390KRemoteMachine LearningLLMAI
- Data EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$235K - $385KPythonJavaScala
- Data Engineer, Core ExperimentationOpenAI · 🇺🇸Seattle$347K - $385KPythonJavaScala
- Manager, Engineering (Data Platform)Garner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$310K - $385KPythonTerraformKafka
- Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core EngineeringPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US$190K - $332KSeniorSQLMachine LearningLLM
- Sr. Analytics Engineer (X)xAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorPythonSQLKafka
- Sr. Software Engineer, Data PlatformxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustGoScala
- Senior Data EngineerWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, USA$251K - $310KSeniorPythonJavaC++
- Data Scientist - Behavior EvaluationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$227K - $307KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Sr. Solutions Architect - AI Natives BusinessDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$219K - $301KSeniorPythonSQLGCP
- Sr. Solutions Architect - Retail, Travel & HospitalityDatabricks · 🇺🇸Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Phoen…$219K - $301KRemoteSeniorPythonJavaScala
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure ComputeRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Data Scientist, AdsReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$191K - $267KRemoteSeniorPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer, Data WarehouseAirbnb · 🇺🇸USA$212K - $265KLeadJavaSQLScala
- Senior Solution Architect (Presales)Starburst · 🇺🇸Boston, MA$230K - $260KSeniorSQLLinuxHadoop
- Principal Software Engineer - DataZoomInfo · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Bethesda, Maryland, United States; Remote-US-CA; Remote-U…$164K - $257KRemoteLeadJavaScalaHadoop
- Senior Data ScientistWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$210K - $240KSeniorPythonSQLPyTorch
- Data Scientist (TS/SCI w/ Poly)SixGen, Inc. · 🇺🇸Columbia, MD$180K - $220KPythonJavaSQL
- Senior Software Engineer (Remote)Imply · 🇺🇸Burlingame, California, United States$155K - $215KSeniorJavaSQLElasticsearch
Questions about Hadoop pay
- What is the average Hadoop salary?
- $224K a year on average and $214K at the median, across 50 open Hadoop postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $194K to $255K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Hadoop pay?
- xAI ($226K), Pinterest ($224K), Databricks ($214K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Hadoop roles at tech companies is $214K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $194K to $255K. Counted from 50 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/hadoop/
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