Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $195,000 |
| Median | $212,000 |
| 75th percentile | $238,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 858 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 11 | $210,000 |
| Senior | 843 | $212,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 112 | $204,000 |
| Roblox | 61 | $268,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 38 | $223,000 |
| CoreWeave | 28 | $201,000 |
| Databricks | 24 | $196,000 |
| Nuro | 20 | $291,000 |
| Waymo | 20 | $238,000 |
| Workday | 20 | $206,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 788 | $212,000 | $195,000 to $238,000 |
| Canada | USD | 28 | $227,000 | $209,000 to $255,000 |
Leading the overall architecture and design of our distributed storage service optimized for AI/ML. Develop and maintain distributed, robust and scalable Go programs deployed to state of the art open-source ecosystems, including Kubernetes.
Extend and adapt GFN's low-latency streaming stack to RTOS platforms (e.g., QNX, AUTOSAR Adaptive/Classic) to meet strict determinism, timing, and partitioning requirements.
Define and evolve the technical approach for evaluating and improving open agent harnesses across frameworks, models, and benchmark environments.
Working in a product research environment where we place big bets on where the future is heading, adapting in real time as we build alongside an industry that is constantly evolving with us.
You'll be part of a small and dynamic team that explores innovative ways to make GPU accelerated applications easier to develop, deploy, and monitor. Work on enabling GPUs as first-class resources in container orchestrators such as Kubernetes.
Compose, build, and productize agentic AI systems that operate directly on GPU software artifacts — source code, crash dumps, changelists, test results, and CI/CD signals.
You will be the technical owner of how our clusters communicate internally and externally. This includes the CNI data plane, the overlay mesh, and the nodes connecting clusters across regions and providers.
Develop and optimize Rust-based data processing frameworks, ensuring efficient handling of large datasets on GPU-accelerated environments, vital for LLM training.
System Software Generalist: You will take ownership for platform software including kernel device driver development, firmware / BIOS interactions, health monitoring, system-level features on new GPU / SOC platforms and products.
Design and develop SoC software, validation solutions, and test frameworks that efficiently validate and stress complex SoCs and systems throughout the complete software development lifecycle. Your work may span user space, the kernel, firmware, and SoC boot software.
Design, build, and operate scalable cloud services for job execution, resource management, and storage. Solve infrastructure challenges across Kubernetes, job scheduling, multi-region services, and automated recovery.
Lead all HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) activities across SoC-based projects, leading the feature roadmap, protocol implementation, compliance certification, and delivery across chips, platforms, and products.
Lead the forefront of Physical AI progress in both simulated and real humanoid robots by building the humanoid reference platform that features NVIDIA's robotics technologies.
Build shared self-service and validation mechanisms that let engineering teams configure and use supported infrastructure workflows with less manual assistance.
Design, develop, optimize, and debug C++ software for ultra low-latency streaming systems. Implement WebRTC and related real-time protocols and congestion-control algorithms from the ground up, working directly from specifications.
Lead design and development of ground breaking end-to-end reference system stack for 5G/6G baseband system. Optimizing CPU, GPU and NIC sub-systems for predictable low-latency and maximum throughput.
Design, implement, and maintain software systems that combine hardware, software, workload, and deployment assumptions to evaluate data center-level power, TCO, and performance trade-offs.
Build efficient, low-latency software for AI media workloads across cloud and embedded platforms. Optimize and deploy AI models and software stacks on embedded processors and NVIDIA GPU platforms. Profile AI workloads to improve performance, power, and memory usage.
Unsecured Installments is one of Upstart's core lending products, helping borrowers access credit through a seamless, digitally native experience.
VNDLY, a Workday company, is a next-generation vendor management SaaS platform designed for procurement executives, talent acquisition teams, suppliers, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to streamline contingent workforce management.
Your work matters here. At Workday Government, we focus on outcomes that serve a larger mission.
Foremost a software engineer . You exemplify high code quality and guide others, and have at least 5 years of industry experience as a data engineer or similar role. You are experienced in creating automated testing, applying design patterns, and other engineering best practices.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in React Native to help us build the core betting experience, from the moment a customer builds a slip through submission, confirmation, and settlement.
Feanix’s main product Autopilot is a farm decision system. It tells dairy farmers what to do with every animal in the herd: which cows to breed and with what semen, which to cull, which to sell, and which heifers are worth raising.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in full-stack engineering. In this role, you will collaborate with our operators, clinicians, and product managers to build tools that drive real change in healthcare.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in full-stack engineering. In this role, you will collaborate with developers, data scientists, healthcare professionals, and product managers to build tools that improve real-world health outcomes.
We are looking for senior software engineers that want to solve many different kinds of problems. You will work with other engineers, data scientists, and healthcare professionals and build tools to improve the health of real people.
Weave is CoreWeave’s observability, evaluation, and monitoring platform for AI agents and GenAI applications. Our customers rely on Weave to build the auto-improving loop for their AI agents: including production tracing, offline evaluations, online monitoring and alerting.
Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager for ML Workflows, this Senior Software Engineer will own the architecture and evolution of core systems in the Weights & Biases platform. ML Workflows owns what customers use to move models and data through W&B.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Ability to challenge ideas while remaining collaborative and solution-oriented. Comfortable operating in environments undergoing technical transformation.
Work with the Flight Software team to create highly reliable flight software for all Haven missions. Work cross functionally with all other disciplines GNC, Thermal, Propulsion, Power, and ECLSS to support algorithm implementation and integration into the flight software.
CrowdStrike is seeking an Sr Engineer in Exposure Management Group for our Sensor team. This is a systems software role.
CrowdStrike · 11d ago
CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and build the software systems that power our global LogScale/NG-SIEM infrastructure footprint.
CrowdStrike · 11d ago
This is a Software Development Engineer role on the Cloud Runtime Protection team that builds the core of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform: the lightweight sensor. You will be at the forefront of securing the next generation of cloud-native and AI workloads.
CrowdStrike · 15d ago
Our Fusion product is seeking a Senior-to-Principal (Level 7) backend software Engineer to build out a platform product which provides core orchestration and workflow capabilities to all users of Crowdstrike’s Flagship offering, the Falcon Platform, while also offering…
You'll be joining our MacOS Sensor Foundation team supporting CrowdStrike's flagship Falcon endpoint protection platform. This team is responsible for core sensor components in user space (C++, Swift).
CrowdStrike · 17d ago
As a Principal SRE, you will operate at the intersection of our Core Platform and Embedded Reliability charters: building the foundational libraries, services, and tooling that every product group depends on, while embedding directly with product engineering teams and their…
As a Senior Engineer (Typically equivalent to Staff or Sr Staff titles in other companies) in our Reliability team, you'll work directly within CrowdStrike product groups alongside product engineers and their leadership.
Samsara is looking for a Senior Software Engineer I to join our Data Platform team , which owns and develops the core analytical platform across Samsara.
Our AI Oversight team is the only team in the world working on external access to frontier AI labs. We build the privacy-preserving infrastructure that lets independent evaluators run evaluations on frontier AI models without exposing the models or anyone's private data.
Databricks · 10d ago
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will own projects end-to-end and be the team lead of software engineers. You will own architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and stakeholder management.
As Senior Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform on the Web Engineering team, you will build and scale the platform layer that Web Engineering builds on: framework, infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines.
At ServiceNow, we’re redefining how users interact with our platform by building intelligent, intuitive, and personalized in-product experiences powered by AI.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer to be a part of a dynamic team focused on developing cutting-edge customer-facing AI Developer products.
At Anduril, our Software Engineers specialize in solving complex, real-world problems through cutting-edge algorithms and intelligent software integrations.
Anduril Industries · 12d ago
Anduril's Software Engineers excel at developing state-of-the art algorithms and software that solve scientific problems with real-world applications. Working in small innovative teams, our software engineers build solutions that make a difference.
At Anduril, our Software Engineers specialize in solving complex, real-world problems through cutting-edge algorithms and intelligent software integrations.
Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations.
Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
The median Senior Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $212,000 a year, based on 858 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $195,000 to $238,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Senior Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Senior Software Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $500,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $195,000 and the 75th percentile is $238,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: mid-level $210,000 (11 listings), senior $212,000 (843 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Senior Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (112 listings, median $204,000), Roblox (61 listings, median $268,000), Anduril Industries (38 listings, median $223,000), CoreWeave (28 listings, median $201,000) and Databricks (24 listings, median $196,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 14, 2026.
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