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 | 852 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 11 | $210,000 |
| Senior | 837 | $212,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 112 | $204,000 |
| Roblox | 60 | $269,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 38 | $223,000 |
| CoreWeave | 27 | $198,000 |
| 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 | 782 | $212,000 | $195,000 to $238,000 |
| Canada | USD | 28 | $227,000 | $209,000 to $255,000 |
Every line of that autonomous driving software has to be compiled, tested, and validated reliably at scale before it ever reaches the road.
This performance simulation platform includes systems.
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 2d ago
Join a small engineering team building backend infrastructure for an AI-powered radiology platform. You will own core systems across data pipelines, warehousing, and distributed model inference, helping support reliable healthcare workflows.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and advance these core libraries. This person will extend rendering capabilities, strengthen the underlying architecture, and create scalable foundations that other engineering teams can build upon.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 11d ago
Join a customer-facing product engineering team building cloud and edge software for command and control of autonomous systems. You will help deliver reliable tools that connect sensors, robotic platforms, and AI-driven decision-making for demanding operational environments.
ServiceNowNew · 5h ago
This role sits where large language models meet distributed systems. You'll apply machine learning, LLM, and distributed systems expertise to make agents plan, reason, and use tools reliably, and you'll build the production systems that run those agents at enterprise scale.
Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success. Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts.
Contribute to a comprehensive platform that automates GPU asset provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management across cloud providers.
Lead technical activities for new product introductions at scale with focus on hybrid deployments between cloud and on-prem.
Drive the design, build, launch and operation of our services, tools and open-source projects. Plan and assign the team’s work, mentor junior engineers and review designs.
Establish yourself as a technical specialist in AI networking products, specifically the BlueField DPU and ConnectX product lines. Architect, design, and develop innovative, scalable, and high-performance hardware-accelerated software solutions.
Develop diagnostic systems for NVIDIA data center platforms, which involve hardware and software tools to develop the worst case stress workloads for CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and interconnects.
In this role, you will develop open source software to serve inference of trained AI models running on GPUs.
Design and implement idiomatic Rust libraries and APIs for foundational CUDA functionality and GPU algorithms. Build safe Rust abstractions over native CUDA and C/C++ interfaces. Develop and maintain the C/C++ components required to support Rust-facing functionality.
Play a key role in optimizing system software for Nvidia automotive performance platforms with Safe RTOS. Collaborate closely with Hardware Architecture, DriveOS, Power, and Test teams to track key boot & runtime performance benchmarks.
Collaborate across teams to develop and deliver scalable software for our brand new cloud infrastructure. Design, build, and maintain network and systems automation solutions for highly dynamic, multi-tenant environments.
Contribute to open-source file systems. Contribute code to open-source parallel and distributed file systems, and distributed object storage. Upstream fixes and features, and engage directly with the upstream communities and maintainers. Serve as a hands-on storage software lead.
Design, develop, test, document and maintain upstream Linux kernel support for NVIDIA GPU virtualization, including vGPU enablement in Nova.
In this role, you will build and operate the continuous deployment platform that carries changes from merge to production.
In this role, you will own the continuous integration systems that every software engineer at Zoox depends on. More than a thousand engineers depend on it every day, running thousands of CI builds every weekday against one of the largest monorepos in the industry.
Scale GP is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale its enterprise Generative AI platform, requiring experience with large-scale distributed systems and full-stack development.
Work with development teams on test plans for all layers of SW stack for cloud infrastructure, execution, reviews, failure analysis and assessing overall quality and risk. Work with customer PMs on software issues including technical feedback from OEMs and CSPs.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build and evolve this foundational orchestration platform. You will design the primitives, services, and developer experience that enable teams across Scale to author, operate, observe, and safely scale distributed workflows.
As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products.
Applied Intelligence Systems team is part of the Scale Generative AI Platform (SGP), focused on pushing the frontier of what agentic applications can do across diverse enterprise and government use cases.
This is a measurement-first role that owns the quality and efficiency of Cortex Code end to end: how good the agent is, how much it costs to run, and how reliably it behaves in production.
Develop highly reliable, real-time software that determines which beams (user, laser, gateway, etc) should be formed in order to provide the best possible user experience for our low-latency, high-bandwidth satellite-based global network.
Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers. Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms. Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
Design, build, and operate a highly reliable, distributed telemetry platform capable of ingesting, processing, storing, and querying data at petabyte scale. Collaborate with other engineers on architecture, design, and code reviews.
Design, build, and ship full-stack product features across Mandolin’s core modules. Collaborate closely with Product to scope requirements and translate them into technical implementations. Own projects end-to-end: backend services, APIs, data flows, and front-end interfaces.
Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform empowering users to ingest, process, store, and query at petabyte-scale. Create new functionality and end-to-end data pipelines that improve how the business at SpaceX operates.
As Senior Software Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform — one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to deepen our team's knowledge in ingestion, processing, storage, and distribution of media at global scale. You’ll help us build, operate, and scale the media platform that powers Reddit for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
We’re hiring a GRC Software Engineer to build and improve the software that supports Reddit’s security and compliance programs.
Full-Lifecycle Development: Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex, cross‑service initiatives in areas like asset delivery, html processing, observability and reliability for core web experiences.
It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agentic Ads Experience team, you will design, build, and ship AI-powered product experiences that change how advertisers work with Reddit Ads Platform.
AI-powered and agentic developer tools are changing what is possible, creating an opportunity to rethink how engineers write, test, review, ship, and operate software.
This is a Generalist Senior Backend Engineer position within the Ads Organization. As a backend engineer on the team, candidates might work on: Microservices and APIs that power our advertiser-facing product, ads.reddit.com.
Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
Cross-Functional Product Architecture: Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Client Engineers (iOS/Android/Web) to translate business and user needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions.
Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
Many of Cloudflare’s critical internal services run on Kubernetes. These services include those responsible for Cloudflare’s control plane and APIs, data analytics and other internal tools used to manage our global network.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work across the database stack, from query planning and execution to transaction processing and durable storage.
As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, you will be embedded with one of Cloudflare's most strategic customers, collaborating to ensure modern cloud compute capacity is available, reliable, and ready when needed.
The Security Platform team is an infrastructure/developer tools group tasked with building and operating powerful, resilient, and secure infrastructure and systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver products to our customers efficiently and securely.
The median Senior Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $212,000 a year, based on 852 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 (837 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 (60 listings, median $269,000), Anduril Industries (38 listings, median $223,000), CoreWeave (27 listings, median $198,000) 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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