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 | 2,328 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 44 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 848 | $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 | 48 | $291,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 2,145 | $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 |
Contributing to core performance engineering initiatives from development to production, focusing on the delivery of impactful optimizations. Executing technical designs and plans for architectural and code-level performance improvements.
Design and implement intuitive user interface components that enhance user commitment, using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Integrate front-end elements seamlessly with back-end services to ensure a smooth user experience.
Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
Elastic · 5mo ago
Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · 3d ago
At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.
Visa's Middleware Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) team in Austin is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help lead our evolution from traditional operations into a modern, AI-driven software engineering organization.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
Drive the strategic evolution of Everpure’s enterprise quote-to-cash ecosystem as a Senior Salesforce Developer.
Quicksilver is Cloudflare’s globally distributed key-value store. It replicates our data all around the world, over tens of thousands of servers and over 500 data centers. It handles all kinds of network conditions and serves billions of keys per second.
Zeta Global is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join Real-Time Events (RTE). This is a highly hands-on IC role.
The Enterprise AI team develops intelligent systems and capabilities that support Instacart’s business and teams across the company. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Enterprise AI team and help build reliable, scalable AI-powered solutions.
Ship product end to end. Take features from a customer conversation to production across our Python backend and React frontend, then see them through adoption. Own customer integrations.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on role. You’ll be writing a lot of production code across our TypeScript-based stack while also contributing through thoughtful design, code reviews, and mentoring.
We’re 20 people, roughly half from restaurant and hospitality backgrounds and half from tech. Maggie is our founder. Niky , our other founding engineer, ships most of what’s customer-facing.
Our Network Services product suite puts the connectivity, scale, and performance of Cloudflare’s global network in front of customers’ network infrastructure and private networks, providing a single pane of glass for network connectivity, visibility, and operating network…
Design and build production APIs and SDKs for interacting with Formlabs software, printers, and manufacturing workflows. Build reliable automation systems that enable customers to integrate print preparation and Formlabs printers into their software and workflows.
As a Software Engineer (Python), you will design and build systems that provision, configure, test, and manage physical hardware at scale.
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
GoogleNew · 2d ago
As a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Google Cloud, you will be an embedded builder who bridges the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customers.
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
GoogleNew · 2d ago
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes…
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents.
The Object Storage Team at CoreWeave is responsible for the product capabilities and data plane function of CoreWeave’s managed storage products. We build reliable, scalable storage solutions with segment leading performance.
The Object Storage Team at CoreWeave is responsible for the product capabilities and data plane function of CoreWeave’s managed storage products. We build reliable, scalable storage solutions with segment leading performance.
Collaborate with a small, tight-knit team. Have a high degree of autonomy and accountability. Build features end-to-end, with full ownership over your work. Work on improving/making an existing product more efficient by identifying inefficiencies and solving them.
As a Test Infrastructure Engineer , you will primarily help design, develop, and deploy our test infrastructure and the tools for automating both our hardware and software testing, which will help us scale as a company.Sitting between the spacecraft and all the other teams, you…
Join our innovative AI Core team as a Machine Learning Engineer and help drive the AI transformation across our organization.
• Strategic Technical Leadership: Define enterprise-wide technical strategy for agentic AI across UKG. Set long-term vision for how agents transform UKG's HCM platform. Influence product roadmaps and business strategy through technical insight.
We are looking for a Software Engineer - Test Infrastructure to join our Release Engineering team. You'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.
Build the managed agent platform: Design, implement, and operate core services for provisioning, executing, managing, and monitoring AI coding agents and agentic workloads.
Run a modern, containerized service-oriented architecture using industry-leading software development practices. Ship code to production many times a day.
Bring a software engineers’ mindset to SeatGeeks’ unique scaling, workflow automation and resilience challenges. Build and maintain tools that our developers use to observe their applications, and drive initiatives to increase our overall reliability.
Run a modern, containerized service-oriented architecture using industry-leading software development practices. Ship code to production many times a day.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and optimize our next-generation Research Platform. The work spans big data in Databricks, web applications, and everything in between. We’re a small, growing team that values collaboration and learning.
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Lead projects from idea to tech spec to implementation to launch, working with your PM, EM, tech lead, and teammates at each stage. When you lead a project, it's yours to see through.
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We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to help build Adobe’s next-generation AI-first marketing platform.
The median Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $233,000 a year, based on 2,328 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 (848 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.
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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