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 | 2,322 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 44 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 843 | $212,000 |
| Lead | 24 | $206,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 144 | $204,000 |
| OpenAI | 127 | $356,000 |
| Roblox | 99 | $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 | 2,138 | $236,000 | $204,000 to $280,000 |
| Canada | USD | 56 | $233,000 | $207,000 to $255,000 |
| United Kingdom | USD | 7 | $228,000 | $193,000 to $245,000 |
This is a hybrid role. As a core contributor to the Simulator Orchestration team, you will focus on solving practical simulation challenges by intelligently configuring and orchestrating simulator features.
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.
Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our government product line, designing systems that adapt Vanta's core compliance platform to meet the demands of federal agencies, government vendors, and SLED organizations.
The Mission Planner team at Zoox is responsible for creating high-level routes for our autonomous vehicles to transport passengers to their destinations.
This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.
Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-functional features across the product, from architecture through production operations.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Design System team, you will build and evolve the engineering surface of the design system: the theme system, the design tokens, and the tooling that lets engineers, designers, and product teams apply it correctly.
Design, implement, and scale critical engineering components and services to support Snap's most strategic initiatives. Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services.
Design and implement systems that support the advertiser experiences and creator ads platform at Snap. Lead the vision and strategy for our next-generation infrastructure, focusing on scalability, performance, and driving advertiser value.
Design and implement highly automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing to maximize user engagement and advertiser ROI.
Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers. Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Genie One Mobile & Desktop team, you will define and deliver the technical foundations for this multi-surface experience.
Databricks · 8mo ago
As the Staff Technical Lead (TL) for Customer Experience Intelligence, you’ll shape the future of how Databricks supports customers at scale.
Design, develop, and lead improvements to the sandboxes product across agent integration, tool permissions, and developer-facing workflows. Investigate and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the agent integration layer across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
The Billing Platform Engineering team owns the systems that make Docker's commercial model real. You'll work on problems like: How do we design infrastructure that makes AI-generated deployments safe to ship and easy to roll back?
This is a senior, deeply hands-on role. You’ll own significant components, drive projects from design through production adoption, and shape the platform’s technical direction while helping teammates grow. Concretely, you will:
Objective: Be one of the strongest hands-on engineers on LightTable's lean, AI-native team. Own technical judgment, design, and delivery for a feature area, and help the platform expand from drawing review into new pre-construction workflows without a rewrite.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Orders Platform based in United States . We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to help shape and scale a mission-critical ordering platform that powers restaurant operations.
Adaptive Financial Consulting · 11d ago
We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.
Own the monetization surfaces end to end: pricing, plans, upgrade flows, and the self-serve to sales handoff. Instrument the revenue funnel, run pricing and packaging experiments, and ship the changes that move paid conversion and expansion.
As an ML Infrastructure Engineer at Abridge, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the core inference infrastructure that powers our machine learning models.
As an ML Infrastructure Engineer at Abridge, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the core inference infrastructure that powers our machine learning models.
Power, not silicon, is the binding constraint on AI infrastructure. That puts us in a rare position to treat energy management as a software problem and to get more useful compute out of every megawatt we bring online.
Work cross-functionally to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLMs with Vanta’s existing products and systems.
We're hiring a Principal Engineer to serve as a Technical Lead across multiple teams in the Money Group – Gusto's fastest-growing organization and a cornerstone of the company's transformation into the Small Business Finance Platform.
Join a cybersecurity product team building new tools for the U.S. federal defense industrial base. This product-focused role spans experimental full-stack products and foundational infrastructure, with ownership across the product lifecycle.
Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming. Work every day with Product and Design to scope features, weigh tradeoffs, and turn workflows into software that’s simple to use and holds up in production.
Location: New Haven, CT, on-site. Reports to: Chief Technology Officer. Compensation: $200,000 - $260,000/yearly plus bonus.
What started as a DME ePrescribing tool has become the order management platform of choice for home medical equipment. Join our team and make a difference in patient care. Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming.
Mozilla is seeking experienced browser engineers to join a small team exploring new applications of browser technology. The work combines deep systems engineering, rapid experimentation, and close collaboration across technical disciplines.
NOTE: this role can be located anywhere ClickHouse has a hiring presence. With over 49,000 stars on GitHub , ClickHouse is the fastest and most resource efficient open-source database for real-time apps and analytics.
As a Staff Engineer on the part of the Lakeflow Disaster Recovery team, you will design and implement distributed systems that replicate and recover pipelines across regions.
As a Staff Engineer on the User Activation team, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for horizontal product experiences that accelerate customer adoption and growth.
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build backend-heavy services and AI agents for a software product, owning one functional area end to end and possibly leading a small group of engineers.
Databricks · 1y ago
micro1New · 2d ago
We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff to help advance the evaluation and development of frontier coding agents.
A Software Development Engineer works on building and maintaining the core Kubernetes platform within AWS, ensuring seamless container orchestration and scalability for AWS customers.
For four years, Footprint's frontend was the front door for developers: onboarding flows customers embed, SDKs they integrate, a dashboard where they configure verification. Percy changed who lives in the product.
For four years, Footprint's frontend was the front door for developers: onboarding flows customers embed, SDKs they integrate, a dashboard where they configure verification. Percy changed who lives in the product.
As a member of our Cloud Infrastructure High Availability team, you will help design, build and maintain tooling to ensure Verkada operates reliably at global scale.
The median Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $234,000 a year, based on 2,322 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 (843 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 (99 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.
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