Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $187,000 |
| Median | $223,000 |
| 75th percentile | $269,000 |
| Lowest listing | $80,000 |
| Highest listing | $1,300,000 |
| Listings counted | 2,652 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 50 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 941 | $205,000 |
| Lead | 29 | $190,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 189 | $204,000 |
| OpenAI | 128 | $356,000 |
| Roblox | 108 | $269,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 84 | $222,000 |
| Anthropic | 74 | $403,000 |
| Databricks | 63 | $216,000 |
| Snowflake | 58 | $244,000 |
| Nuro | 46 | $291,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 2,432 | $223,000 | $189,000 to $269,000 |
| Canada | USD | 66 | $225,000 | $197,000 to $255,000 |
| United Kingdom | USD | 6 | $219,000 | $184,000 to $231,000 |
Define and drive the long-term technical architecture for OLTP across Snowflake Postgres, Unistore and the infrastructure they depend on.
Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company and set the technical direction for its perception systems. You will help autonomous vehicles interpret complex ocean environments and provide reliable information for safe downstream autonomy.
Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We build the core data engineering primitives that power Snowflake's streaming and transformation capabilities.
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You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
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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…
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The median Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $223,000 a year, based on 2,652 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $187,000 to $269,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Software Engineer listings range from $80,000 to $1,300,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $187,000 and the 75th percentile is $269,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: mid-level $250,000 (50 listings), senior $205,000 (941 listings), lead $190,000 (29 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (189 listings, median $204,000), OpenAI (128 listings, median $356,000), Roblox (108 listings, median $269,000), Anduril Industries (84 listings, median $222,000) and Anthropic (74 listings, median $403,000).
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 12, 2026.
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