Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $204,000 |
| Median | $234,000 |
| 75th percentile | $277,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $1,300,000 |
| Listings counted | 2,305 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 44 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 837 | $212,000 |
| Lead | 24 | $206,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 144 | $204,000 |
| OpenAI | 127 | $356,000 |
| Roblox | 96 | $269,000 |
| Anthropic | 76 | $403,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 73 | $223,000 |
| Snowflake | 60 | $255,000 |
| Databricks | 59 | $216,000 |
| Nuro | 46 | $291,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 2,122 | $236,000 | $204,000 to $280,000 |
| Canada | USD | 55 | $235,000 | $208,000 to $255,000 |
| United Kingdom | USD | 7 | $228,000 | $193,000 to $245,000 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for the org's transformation into an AI-driven system that turns a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months.
The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards.
If you’re energized by tough problems, excited to shape the future of cyber defense, and eager to work alongside passionate experts, you’ll feel right at home.
The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and customer execution across Agent Factory, Sana, Products, and the Developer Platform.
The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and customer execution across Agent Factory, Sana, Products, and the Developer Platform.
Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and customer execution, working across all of Workday’s AI product teams.
Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems.
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure. Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.
As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product…
The Care Experience team builds the systems and tools Toast’s care agents rely on to support restaurants every day—the foundation behind every phone call, chat conversation, and support case. This work directly determines how quickly restaurants get back up and running.
Location(s): US (remote), Boston (hybrid), New York (hybrid), San Francisco (hybrid).
As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
As a Principal Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale.
VisaNew · 1d ago
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Console based in the United States.
Deepgram is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead of the Console team. The Console team owns the product surfaces that help developers discover, test, and adopt Deepgram.
We are seeking an engineer to join our Applied AI team dedicated to solving the toughest problems in voice AI for enterprise customers.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer based in the United States.
Design, build, and evolve reliable customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities that other product teams can use to own and improve their customer journeys (TypeScript, React, Node.js).
Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta's government product line, designing systems that adapt Vanta's core compliance platform to meet the demands of federal agencies, government vendors, and SLED organizations.
Own the design and multi-quarter delivery of Vanta's enterprise org model, including hierarchical product lines and business units, isolated data access and ownership, cross-cutting audit workflows, scoped approvals, and EU and GovCloud data residency support.
Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team.
Join the robotics team at a defense technology company developing autonomous systems to detect and counter drone threats. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role focused on production C++ running on physical robotic hardware.
SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and…
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and evolution of Reddit’s Ingestion Platform.
Build and evolve the core platform services and capabilities that power the developer experience. Create new capabilities that help external developers build great apps on Reddit.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Site Defense team within Reddit’s Infrastructure organization.
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.
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.
Databricks · 2y ago
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
You will own the frontend architecture of the W&B app, the product ML researchers and engineers work in every day, and be accountable for app performance, stability and reliability.
Join the Workers Deploy & Config team as a Principal Engineer, the most senior technical role on the team behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform.
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.
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.
Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure of the developer platform. Build new features for external developers such as SQL db as a service. Contribute to the entire development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
Architect for Scale: Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, processing, encoding, storing, and delivering video and images.
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.
We're looking for a Staff Engineer, File & Block Storage to design, build, and operate the file and block storage behind our high-performance AI storage platform.
Define and evolve the architecture of Aurora's AV runtime framework across on-vehicle and offline execution. Design and implement high-performance, low-latency inter-module communication, including shared-memory, zero-copy IPC, and RPC.
Please note: this role is hybrid and has a requirement to travel to customer locations 20-25% of the time. It requires an active Secret or Top Secret clearance OR the willingness and eligibility to obtain one.
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 median Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $234,000 a year, based on 2,305 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $204,000 to $277,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Software Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $1,300,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $204,000 and the 75th percentile is $277,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: mid-level $250,000 (44 listings), senior $212,000 (837 listings), lead $206,000 (24 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (144 listings, median $204,000), OpenAI (127 listings, median $356,000), Roblox (96 listings, median $269,000), Anthropic (76 listings, median $403,000) and Anduril Industries (73 listings, median $223,000).
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.
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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