Salary guide · $300k+
Software Engineer salary in United States
Live salary signals from $300k+ roles. Remote, hybrid, and on-site jobs included; refreshed daily with $100k+ openings.
Median base salary
$301,600/yr
Typical range
$125,000–$536,000/yr
Salary band
$300k+
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Salary snapshot by country
United States
$301,600/yr median
$125,000–$536,000 range · 678 datapoints
Software Engineer job openings in United States
Mountain View, USA- Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
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As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer working on driving behavior verification, you are responsible for implementing metrics that evaluate the end-to-end behavior of the Nuro Driver. These metrics will be used to quantify the safety of the driving behavior in our target ODD.
- Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
- 5+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
Principal Software Engineer, Engine & Tools - League of Legends
Riot Games · 1mo ago
Design, build, and maintain software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability. Accelerate the development of the core engine architecture and developer experience. Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Principal Software Engineer - League of Legends , UI Tooling
Riot Games · 1mo ago
Work and align with different partners that span across multiple teams to ensure we're delivering awesome features to excite them. Contributing to technical discussions/designs that your team oversees.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Principal Software Engineer, Rendering - Unpublished R&D Product
Riot Games · 3mo ago
Be the rendering expert of the team. Deeply understand how rendering systems are interlinked and proactively work across departments to shepherd best practices and advise on all things rendering-related.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Principal Software Engineer - Developer Connections, Game Release
Riot Games · 4mo ago
Define Technical Direction: Shape and execute the strategy for Riot’s centralized game release capabilities, balancing speed, safety, and scale.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Principal Software Engineer, Gameplay - Teamfight Tactics
Riot Games · 4mo ago
Build gameplay features and systems for TFT game modes and cosmetics. Build around-game UI features, including progression and monetization flows in collaboration with Visual Designers and User Experience creatives.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 4+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Principal Software Engineer, AI Enablement - Central Product
Riot Games · 6mo ago
Implement and Integrate: Lead the technical execution of integrating modern AI practices into existing engines, tools, and pipelines.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8–12 years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship solutions from first prototype through stable production rollout. Use existing Docker products and patterns when possible, invent, prototype and validate innovative solutions when necessary.
- Pays more than 72% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Define the long-term technical vision and architecture for Docker's developer tooling platform spanning platform engineering, CI/CD, and AI-powered tools.
- Pays more than 72% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Define the technical solution for a new product. Help shape the product with peers in Product and Design. Mentor other technical team members. Be the technical point of contact for the team.
- Pays more than 72% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
This role is travel-intensive, with frequent trips, often international, and sometimes lasting multiple weeks, to work directly alongside customers on-site.
- Pays more than 59% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
Set the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Ads Marketplace, connecting investments across bidding, pacing, auctions, inventory, traffic optimization, and ad reranking.
- Pays more than 86% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Parental leave
- Wellness
Join the front-end fabrics team and help shape the next generation of enterprise hardware platforms and software-defined data-center infrastructure.
- Pays more than 84% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training & Applied Research
San Francisco Tensor Company · 3d ago
We build the fastest GPU compiler in the world.
- Pays more than 84% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on Adzuna
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- Equity
- Relocation
As a Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments, you'll own the technical foundation for how Scale builds, runs, verifies, and delivers RL environments at scale.
- Pays more than 80% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Pension
- Paid time off
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Ride and Fleet Services
Zoox · 10mo ago
We are looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our cloud services and APIs that handle ride hailing for Zoox’s production-grade robotaxi service.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
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.
- Pays more than 90% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
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.
- Pays more than 90% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
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.
- Pays more than 90% of Senior Software Engineer jobs
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Product (Backend-Focused)
Snorkel AI · 18d ago
We’re looking for Senior and Staff Product Engineers with strong backend engineering experience and a passion for building excellent products.
- Pays more than 74% of Software Engineer jobs
- 7+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
Frontier AI data is expensive to make and hard to measure. Every task we deliver is tested against the strongest models, often through many long-running agent rollouts. Your job is to make that process faster, cheaper, and more rigorous with ML and AI.
- Pays more than 74% of Software Engineer jobs
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
Zoox is looking for an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate our custom High-Performance Computing infrastructure.
- Pays more than 72% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
Card Tech is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team and fundamentally redefine the speed and quality of software development.
- Pays more than 86% of Software Engineer jobs
- 9+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Bonus
The ManagedTables team at Databricks is responsible for the DataIntelligence initiatives that underpin the Unity Catalog ManagedTables offering.
- Pays more than 77% of Software Engineer jobs
- 15+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
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We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a technical architect and engineering leader for this platform.
- Pays more than 77% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
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- Bonus
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Experience with development in a Linux environment. Experience with Python and C++. Twelve (12) years' experience as a DSP Algorithm developer. Twelve (12) years' experience with C++, Linux, Python, or similar development language. C++ work must be in the last 10 years.
- Pays more than 80% of Software Engineer jobs
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
- Pays more than 78% of Software Engineer jobs
- 9+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
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Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Data Governance
Databricks · 1y ago
Technical Leadership : Lead the design and delivery of high-impact projects, setting standards for security, usability, performance, and scalability. Mentor senior engineers and elevate development and operational best practices across the organization.
- Pays more than 75% of Software Engineer jobs
- 15+ years experience
- Degree required
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
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We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform team. You will build the observability systems that give Vercel visibility into how we build, ship, and operate our systems. Core Platform owns Vercel’s reliability, resilience, and engineering velocity.
- Pays more than 73% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
The Scheduled Tasks team builds the platform primitives that let applications and agents run work now, later, or for a long time. We own Vercel Workflows, Queues, and Cron: the systems developers use to build long-running, event-driven, and scheduled applications.
- Pays more than 70% of Software Engineer jobs
- 5+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
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.
- Pays more than 79% of Software Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Pension
- Paid time off
Scale GP is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale multi-cloud infrastructure for secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise AI agentic workflows.
- Pays more than 79% of Software Engineer jobs
- 5+ years experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Pension
- Paid time off
Distributed system design; Large-scale data pipeline development; Distributed data processing frameworks; and. Robotics engineering or Machine learning engineering. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below.
- Pays more than 86% of Software Engineer jobs
- 7+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
- Pays more than 81% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Apply on company site
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- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
- Pays more than 81% of Software Engineer jobs
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Wellness
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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.
- Pays more than 80% of Software Engineer jobs
- 5+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
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.
- Pays more than 80% of Software Engineer jobs
- 6+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
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.
- Pays more than 80% of Software Engineer jobs
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
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