Data Engineer
Full-time data engineers in India and the Philippines, on your US hours, from $3,000/mo.
Exordiom places full-time data engineers from India and the Philippines who build and run the pipelines and warehouse models your analytics, product and AI teams depend on. They own ingestion, transformation, data quality and cost, and work a full shift on US hours. Hiring one through Exordiom starts at $3,000 per month, with candidate profiles in 48 hours.
Get data engineer profilesQuick facts
| Role | Data engineer |
|---|---|
| SOC code | 15-1243 (closest BLS category) |
| US median pay | $139,500 a year (BLS, May 2025) |
| Exordiom starting price | $3,000 per month per full-time seat |
| Time to profiles | 48 hours |
| Time to first hire | As little as 10 days (full team in 2 to 3 weeks) |
| Talent markets | India and the Philippines |
| US-hours coverage | Full shift during your US business hours |
Role highlights
What does a data engineer do?
Moves data from source systems into a warehouse your team can trust, on time and at a known cost.
What skills and stack should a data engineer have?
SQL and Python, dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks, and Fivetran or Airbyte.
What seniority should I hire?
For a first data hire, look for 3 to 5 years building production pipelines and at least one warehouse the candidate owned. Price rises with seniority.
Where does Exordiom recruit data engineers?
Our in-region recruiters work across India and the Philippines, with profiles in 48 hours and a first hire in as little as 10 days.
Will an offshore data engineer work US hours?
Yes. A full shift during your US business hours, in your Slack and standups.
How much does it cost to hire a data engineer offshore?
| Option | Cost |
|---|---|
| US data engineer, average base salary (Built In) | $125,983 a year, about $10,500 a month before benefits and taxes |
| US median, closest BLS category (SOC 15-1243) | $139,500 a year |
| Exordiom data engineer | From $3,000 a month, about $18.75 an hour over 160 hours |
Exordiom is a monthly subscription with no long-term commitment. Billing starts after your hire starts, and every seat includes a 10-day no-cost replacement.
Who is hiring data engineers in India and the Philippines?
Companies with open data engineering and data platform roles in India and the Philippines, October 2026:
Teams like Netlify hire data engineers through Exordiom, and companies like LaunchDarkly invest in data talent like this through us. “Exordiom have been instrumental in our journey driving transformative impact across multiple dimensions: GTM, IT, Engineering, Support, and Ops.” Mathias Biilmann Christensen, CEO at Netlify. Read the Netlify case study
How does hiring a data engineer with Exordiom work?
- 1
Share your spec.
Your sources, your warehouse and the level you need.
- 2
Review profiles in 48 hours.
Every candidate has passed an AI interview built from your spec plus human rounds.
- 3
Meet and choose.
You run one final conversation and make the call.
- 4
Start on US hours.
We handle the offer, payroll, compliance and equipment, then check in through Hypercare.
Full role guide: responsibilities, skills, interview questions and India vs Philippines
Core responsibilities
- Build and maintain ingestion from apps, SaaS tools and event streams
- Model warehouse tables in dbt with tests and documentation
- Schedule and monitor pipelines with clear SLAs and alerts
- Enforce data quality checks and fix issues at the source
- Manage warehouse cost with partitioning, clustering and query tuning
- Prepare clean datasets for BI, product analytics and AI features
- Handle access control and sensitive data with care
Skills that separate strong data engineers
| Skill | What good looks like |
|---|---|
| SQL | Writes readable, fast SQL and reads a query plan to find the slow step |
| Modeling | Builds dimensional or wide tables that analysts actually use every day |
| Orchestration | Runs idempotent jobs that recover cleanly from failure and backfill without duplicates |
| Data quality | Tests freshness, volume and schema, and alerts the owner on breaks |
| Cost control | Knows what each pipeline costs per run and how to cut it without losing freshness |
| Communication | Agrees on metric definitions with the teams that use them |
Interview questions and how Exordiom vets
- Walk me through a pipeline you own. How do you know it ran correctly today?
- A dashboard number is wrong this morning. How do you trace the cause?
- How would you load a large table that changes every hour without full reloads?
- How do you test a dbt model before it reaches production?
- Warehouse spend doubled last month. Where would you look first?
- Explain a data model you built to a finance lead in two sentences.
Red flags: no data tests, full reloads for everything, no idea what the pipelines cost, and metric definitions that live only in one dashboard.
Exordiom recruits employed engineers, never a bench. Each candidate completes an AI interview built from your spec, then human rounds that score character, acumen, grit and experience. After the start, Hypercare check-ins run at week 1, week 2 and every four weeks from week 6, with you and your hire separately.
India vs Philippines for data engineers
India is Exordiom's main market for data and engineering roles, and companies such as Databricks, Okta, HackerRank and Glean list data engineering roles in Bengaluru, and Databricks is hiring data platform engineers up to director level there. In the Philippines, Netskope is hiring data analytics engineers in Taguig and Maya is hiring senior analytics engineers. In both markets your engineer works a full shift on US hours.
FAQ
What does a data engineer do?
A data engineer builds and runs the pipelines and warehouse models that analytics, product and AI teams depend on, including ingestion, transformation, data quality and cost control.
How much does it cost to hire a data engineer through Exordiom?
Pricing starts at $3,000 per month for one full-time seat. Exordiom is a monthly subscription with no long-term commitment, and billing starts after your hire starts.
How fast can I hire a data engineer with Exordiom?
You see candidate profiles within 48 hours, and your first hire can be live in as little as 10 days.
Will an offshore data engineer work my hours?
Yes. Exordiom engineers in India and the Philippines work a full shift during your US business hours.
What if the hire is not the right fit?
Every seat includes a 10-day no-cost replacement, and Hypercare check-ins catch gaps early.
Hire a data engineer on your US hours
Tell us about your sources and warehouse, and we send profiles within 48 hours.
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