Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $185,000 |
| Median | $205,000 |
| 75th percentile | $230,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 955 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 11 | $210,000 |
| Senior | 941 | $205,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 150 | $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 | 875 | $205,000 | $185,000 to $230,000 |
| Canada | USD | 30 | $221,000 | $209,000 to $255,000 |
Design, build, and launch to production new features and improvements aimed at unifying common components across the storage systems.
Build the next generation of large-scale video services. Contribute to and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines in high-performance languages (Rust, C++, or Go).
Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing. Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes. Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services.
Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems. Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure supporting real-time workloads. Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines.
The Data Enablement team builds the platforms and frameworks that move and serve data across Block.
More and more of our engineering work now runs through autonomous agents, and those agents can only be as effective as the tools, context, and codebase around them.
Our engineers are only as effective as the tools, codebase, and workflows around them. As a Developer Experience Engineer, you’ll make our large, evolving codebase easier to build, change, and reason about, for both human developers and AI agents.
Employee Experience Engineering (EXE) is part of Block's Corporate Engineering organization, responsible for building and operating the engineering platforms, services, and integrations that improve the employee experience.
Cash App is offering a better way to file your taxes as an alternative to traditional online DIY tax preparation systems. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Tax Engine Server Engineering team, you will build and enhance the codebase that powers our tax filing experience.
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You will be a key Senior Software Engineer driving the digital transformation of Everpure focused on innovating and enhancing our Modern Data platforms.
Lead the design, development, and deployment of AIOps & Observability platforms, including metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Build out full-stack Pinner-facing features to power the future of inspiration on Pinterest.
Join the front-end fabrics team and help shape the next generation of enterprise hardware platforms and software-defined data-center infrastructure.
Zoox's Robot Software Infrastructure team is seeking a passionate software engineer to help develop Robot software and infrastructure to advance the common performant operating system that powers several devices on our vehicle including Autonomy systems.
The Software Systems Engineering team is responsible for defining SW development processes and ensuring that all safety-critical software meets a high safety bar for production vehicles.
Work closely with other engineers, product managers, and field team members to ensure that Snorkel’s frontier AI datasets meet and surpass the capabilities of the most advanced foundation models.
We are seeking an engineer to join our Applied AI team dedicated to solving the toughest problems in voice AI for enterprise customers.
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.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
The Infra Agent Systems team builds the software systems that power and automate that infrastructure. We develop production AI agents that diagnose hardware failures, investigate incidents, correlate signals across the fleet, and automate operational workflows.
As a Software Engineer at EliseAI, you won't just write code; you'll build software that improves business operations and makes a real impact on people's lives. Instead of following a playbook, you’ll be creating it.
We are seeking a Security Engineer to evolve Snorkel's security posture across our cloud infrastructure, developer platform, and product ecosystem.
Join a growing product engineering team at a fintech company building an AI-enabled operating system for mortgage servicing. You will develop backend features that support complex servicing workflows and large-scale mortgage transactions.
The Motion team enables NEO to move through and interact with the world.
We are looking for a seasoned Systems level Linux engineer / Linux internals expert to help us build our next generation of command connector product that turns any legacy camera into a cloud-native, AI-searchable node.
We're looking for a Senior Engineer to work across some of the most technically demanding parts of LiveKit's platform — core services, telephony, and observability. At LiveKit, the infrastructure is the product — you're not building the layer underneath, you are the layer.
Datadog is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale their platform for system monitoring and observability, requiring 6+ years of experience and expertise in high-scale architecture.
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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.
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.
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Real-time Analytics Platform team , you will design, build, and scale the core OLAP infrastructure powering sub-second analytical queries across Roblox.
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. Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for reliability and scalability?
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.
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 Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games.
The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games.
The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games.
The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games.
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 median Senior Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $205,000 a year, based on 955 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $185,000 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 $185,000 and the 75th percentile is $230,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: mid-level $210,000 (11 listings), senior $205,000 (941 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Senior Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (150 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 12, 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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