Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $204,000 |
| Median | $233,000 |
| 75th percentile | $276,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $1,300,000 |
| Listings counted | 2,332 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 44 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 852 | $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 | 76 | $222,000 |
| Snowflake | 60 | $255,000 |
| Databricks | 59 | $216,000 |
| Nuro | 48 | $291,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 2,147 | $235,000 | $204,000 to $279,000 |
| Canada | USD | 56 | $233,000 | $207,000 to $255,000 |
| United Kingdom | USD | 7 | $228,000 | $193,000 to $237,000 |
Capital One · 11d ago
Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company.
We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Software Engineer, to help develop our rapidly growing platform for our Corporate organization.
We're seeking an experienced, senior back-end engineer to help develop the core platform surrounding our Workplace and TPA products.
Set the technical strategy for Boulevard’s API and app ecosystem, making sure it supports company goals and partner needs. Work across engineering teams to align on direction and drive the right implementation, without formal authority over those teams.
As a Staff Software Engineer on TnT, you'll take real ownership of features and systems across both domains. You'll work closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams to ship meaningful improvements to enterprise customers.
You’ll build net new features for two products: the patient app on web and mobile, and the AI tooling their physicians use every day. One engineer owns an area across front end, back end, data and infrastructure, so you’ll take things from idea to production.
We are looking for a staff back-end engineer to set the technical direction for the platform retailers use to integrate with Signifyd.
Join an early-stage cybersecurity team building technology to secure and govern enterprise AI. You will combine hands-on software development with close customer partnership, helping enterprise security and IT teams deploy the product while turning their needs into improvements.
We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer to join our Zero Trust Branch datapath team. This is a hybrid role based in Santa Clara, CA (3 days in office), reporting to the Architect, Engineering.
Zscaler · 11d ago
We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer (Datapath) to join our team in a hybrid capacity (minimum 3 days a week in our Santa Clara, CA office), reporting to the Senior Manager Software Development Engineering in the Engineering department.
We are looking for an Sr Staff Software Development Engineer (Layer 7 Security & Proxy) to join our team. This is a hybrid role (minimum 3 days a week in Santa Clara, CA office), reporting to the Director, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a Santa Clara, CA role, reporting to the Director, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Rust Developer to join our Platform Convergence Team. This is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA reporting to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering.
As a Software Engineer, you will build and ship the systems behind Hike’s AI healthcare platform, across our clinical software, AI agents, and manufacturing. You will own features end to end, from understanding the problem to running it in production.
Our team owns the reliability and testing plan for every software system that runs on the robot or talks to it. That covers the front end, back end, cloud, mobile, on-robot services, and the embedded stack.
The software team at 1X builds the cloud-native platform that connects our robots to the operators, customers, and systems that depend on them.
The Hardware Automation team builds the internal platforms and tooling that power how Nebius operates its data center infrastructure at scale.
This role requires building distributed platform systems to incrementally ingest high-volume, petabyte-scale data from diverse sources—including cloud storage (SQS, ADLS, GCS), databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres), and file sources (Google Drive, SharePoint)—at high…
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping both the product experience and the foundational infrastructure of Model Serving.
Databricks · 1y ago
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team , you will design and build the systems that power Databricks’ service-to-service communication across thousands of clusters in a multi-cloud environment.
Databricks · 4y ago
While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.
Databricks · 7y ago
As a software engineer on the Runtime team at Databricks, you will be building the next generation distributed data storage and processing systems that can outperform specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance, yet provide the expressiveness and programming…
We generate audio data for the world’s leading speech and audio labs. Data only matters if it makes a customer’s model measurably better, and finding out whether it does is your job.
Build and ship customer-facing authentication features—from smoother login experiences to MFA, step-up authentication, and device binding—with mentorship from experienced engineers.
Project leads at Mercor run and scale distinct data production businesses, each hiring and upskilling thousands of experts, while managing throughput and quality.
Design, implement, test, and maintain physical and MAC layer software of the wireless software stack for the Starlink communications network. Participate in architecting current and next-gen Starlink hardware and signal processing algorithms.
As a Senior Software Engineer for AI Runtime, you will play a critical role in building and scaling the systems that make large-scale training fast, reliable, and effortless.
Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems used company-wide. Own complex platform initiatives end-to-end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution.
Develop highly reliable, real-time software designed to run on the gateways, satellites, user terminals, and switches that make up our low latency, high capacity satellite-based global network. Participate in and lead architecture, design, and code reviews.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team. This is a Hybrid (3 days a week in San Jose, CA) role, reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering in the IAM department.
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer (C / Networking / Dataplane) to join our Engineering Team. This is a Hybrid (San Jose, CA 3 days a week in office) role, reporting to the Senior Director, Software Development Engineering.
Zscaler · 2mo ago
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer, ZIA Core Datapath to join our team. This is a hybrid (3 days per week in San Jose, CA office) role, reporting to the Sr Manager, Software Engineering, QA in the ZIA Engineering team.
Steward core platform services: Implement container orchestration, service mesh, ingress, and secrets management at scale. Cross-functional partnership: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Security to deliver external and internal value.
Within D2C Data Science, the D2C ML Engineering team is seeking a software engineer to help design, build, and support production AI platform capabilities that solve high-value business problems across the broader digital commerce ecosystem.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Director of Engineering building ShopMy's agent orchestration platform: the system our AI agents are built, run, managed, and improved on.
Our software team is growing and we are looking for an experienced robotics engineer to own how we assess the health of Digit.
Build the complete billing infrastructure for consumer subscriptions end-to-end, ensuring world-class reliability, security, and scalability. Design and build sophisticated promotional offer infrastructure and internal tools to supercharge the revenue organization.
Build and maintain the lean, high-reliability Linux-based operating system that underpins our supercomputer network fabric. Write (or rewrite) high-performance device drivers to extract the maximum physical capability from our network and compute hardware.
Develop routing and traffic-engineering algorithms for the Colossus high-performance datacenter network. Develop highly reliable, real-time software designed to run on the switches that form the backbone of our low-latency, high-bandwidth AI training fabric.
Build and ship product features across the X Ads Platform. Work on systems related to ad delivery, targeting, optimization, measurement, and advertiser experience. Use SpaceXSI's infrastructure and AI capabilities to improve the performance and quality of advertising products.
Design and implement scalable safety systems for Grok’s media generation platform, including real-time content moderation, risk detection, and safeguard enforcement for images, video, and audio.
Own backend engineering for scalable, low-latency voice infrastructure and model integrations. Collaborate directly with Grok Voice model, media, and product teams to deliver end-to-end experiences.
Design and implement scalable systems to support Grok's AI-driven media experiences, ensuring high performance, reliability, and low-latency at global scale.
Design and build the systems that make Grok useful for everything from quick questions to useful work. Architect high-performance systems for personalized, reliable interactions at global scale.
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer focused on Salesforce Sales Cloud and the Force.com platform to serve as a senior, hands‑on technical leader with architectural ownership for Salesforce solutions at Wellington Management.
Samsung Research America · 9d ago
Samsung Research America is looking for a Senior Robot Systems Engineer to own the end-to-end software architecture for our robot platform, driving technical decisions that shape how hardware and software integrate at scale.
Nebius is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work alongside Physical AI customers, shape our core infrastructure products, and test ideas for what we should build next.
We’re looking for a Network Software Engineer (NetSWE) to build software that makes network operations safe, scalable, and boring — even as we launch new data centers and expand fast.
The median Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $233,000 a year, based on 2,332 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $204,000 to $276,000. 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 $276,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: mid-level $250,000 (44 listings), senior $212,000 (852 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 (76 listings, median $222,000).
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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