Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $184,000 |
| Median | $205,000 |
| 75th percentile | $230,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 983 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 11 | $210,000 |
| Senior | 968 | $205,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 156 | $204,000 |
| Roblox | 60 | $269,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 40 | $223,000 |
| CoreWeave | 27 | $198,000 |
| Databricks | 25 | $196,000 |
| Nuro | 20 | $291,000 |
| Waymo | 20 | $238,000 |
| Workday | 20 | $206,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 899 | $205,000 | $184,000 to $230,000 |
| Canada | USD | 29 | $225,000 | $209,000 to $255,000 |
The team works at the intersection of product and security, reducing friction in the customer experience while protecting identity and customer data.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
The Runtime & GPU Systems team builds and operates secure, high-performance environments for multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms at scale. Our team sits at the intersection of container runtimes, lightweight virtualization, GPU infrastructure, and Linux systems engineering.
CoreWeave · 3mo ago
We're looking for a Senior Engineer to be a driving force on CoreWeave's Benchmarking & Performance team, with a focus on building the performance insights and observability systems that make our AI infrastructure legible at every layer, from individual GPUs and…
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work directly with our customers, embedding inside their AI teams to help them build and deploy successful AI agents with the W&B Weave developer toolkit.
The Billing team is the steward of CoreWeave's revenue trust. We build services that make billing auditable, accurate, and clear, so CoreWeave can close deals, turn usage into cash, and help customers manage their spend with confidence.
Our stack is engineered for speed, scale, and cost-efficiency—an unmatched alternative to traditional hyperscalers. At CoreWeave, infrastructure is the product.
ARIA is the AI Research and Iterations Agent that enables continuous experimentation at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will help build and operate CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native platform for admitting, scheduling, and operating AI workloads at scale.
A lab signs with CoreWeave. They have thousands of GPUs waiting. Spent on cluster setup instead of research. Building deployment scripts, fighting container images, wiring up job orchestration. They came to train models. Instead, they're doing operations.
We’re looking for a Senior Engineer for CoreWeave’s Benchmarking & Performance team.
atoms · 10d ago
On the Bionic Enterprise Platform team, you’ll build the shared software and infrastructure that help our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) deliver solutions across Atoms.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Bionic Enterprise team, you’ll embed with teams across Atoms to improve how the company works using AI and software.
ATOMS Careers page · 10d ago
On the Bionic Enterprise Platform team, you’ll build the shared software and infrastructure that help our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) deliver solutions across Atoms.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Bionic Enterprise team, you’ll embed with teams across Atoms to improve how the company works using AI and software.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, you will play a key role in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining CoreWeave’s rapidly expanding IAM platform.
The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence.
We're looking for a software engineer to join our Source Control and Governance team within our Developer Experience group.
The Data Platforms Team serves as the experts on managing data infrastructures for CoreWeave. The data infra includes but is not limited to managed databases, data ingestion, data flow, and data lake and retrieval for CoreWeave and its customers.
As a Senior Software Engineer within our Compute Architecture organization, you will help build the software control plane for hardware lifecycle management across large-scale GPU data centers.
The Fleet Provisioning Automation (FPA) team is responsible for the automated provisioning and lifecycle management of CoreWeave’s rapidly growing fleet of hardware nodes and node types.
Design, implement, unit test and debug changes in the NVIDIA SW stack to take next-gen HW from design / development stage to production. Be heavily involved in emulation, bring-up, and product hardening required to build our groundbreaking products.
Build, develop, and maintain scalable 3D simulation software for Digital Twin and Synthetic Data Generation applications. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to build backend services and AI Agents to create end-to-end SDG solutions.
Design, develop, and verify features for next-generation GPU driver architecture in close collaboration with hardware and software engineering teams.
Design, develop, test, and optimize system software and firmware for SoCs used in O-RAN and cellular infrastructure. Develop power-management policies and performance optimizations across CPU, GPU, accelerator, memory, interconnect, I/O, and networking subsystems.
Drive early software bring-up on simulation platforms for new chip and platform programs. Verify platform readiness and validate software functionality in pre-silicon development environments.
Build and deliver agentic AI solutions—autonomous systems that reason, plan, and take actions. These automate silicon bring-up, test and validation frameworks, debugging, and engineering workflows to speed up GPU launches.
At ZipRecruiter, where a universe of data, brimming with over a billion archived job postings, tens of millions of dynamic job seekers, and countless impression and click events, there’s plenty of opportunities for innovation.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex’s release, observability, and incident management processes.
This position is on our Data Enablement Platform team. The Brex product requires a huge amount of data to power our client experiences.
PDP’s mission is to make Brex customizable, scalable, and reliable for finance teams, and that requires deeply optimized, production-grade backend systems. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work on data-intensive, distributed systems at scale.
Our team has a unique opportunity to work on applications and data at scale, serving millions of jobseekers and tens of thousands of customers.
Shield AI · 2mo ago
The Autonomy Capabilities Team develops functionality to automate single- and multi-agent teams of platforms in pursuit of mission objectives and acts as a central discipline-aligned focal-point for encouraging consistent usage of technical approaches across business portfolios.
Shield AI · 3mo ago
The Autonomy Capabilities Team develops functionality to automate single- and multi-agent teams of platforms in pursuit of mission objectives and acts as a central discipline-aligned focal-point for encouraging consistent usage of technical approaches across business portfolios.
As a Senior Software Engineer (IC3) on SoFi’s Prism team, you’ll help build Prism, SoFi’s internal AI platform for knowledge work. Prism connects employees with the AI models, business context, and tools they need to solve important problems more effectively.
Most providers make customers migrate their data to them. We're doing the opposite: bringing ClickHouse Cloud into the environments our customers already trust, so their data stays useful right where it lives. Those environments come in a few shapes.
The median Senior Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $205,000 a year, based on 983 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $184,000 to $230,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Senior Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Senior Software Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $500,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $184,000 and the 75th percentile is $230,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: mid-level $210,000 (11 listings), senior $205,000 (968 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Senior Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (156 listings, median $204,000), Roblox (60 listings, median $269,000), Anduril Industries (40 listings, median $223,000), CoreWeave (27 listings, median $198,000) and Databricks (25 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 13, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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