Hyderabad has 5,679 data engineer jobs on Glassdoor — second only to Bangalore. But the cost of living is 30–35% lower, which means your real purchasing power is actually higher here. Microsoft's largest India campus sits in HITEC City. HSBC, Bank of America, and S&P Global run massive GCCs from Financial District. And they're all hiring data engineers who know Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS.