Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $227,000 |
| Median | $255,000 |
| 75th percentile | $288,000 |
| Lowest listing | $110,000 |
| Highest listing | $485,000 |
| Listings counted | 580 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 55 | $445,000 |
| Databricks | 34 | $228,000 |
| Snowflake | 18 | $288,000 |
| Shield AI | 18 | $271,000 |
| Coinbase | 16 | $237,000 |
| Harvey | 15 | $286,000 |
| Zscaler | 15 | $191,000 |
| Riot Games | 14 | $231,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 523 | $255,000 | $228,000 to $288,000 |
| Canada | USD | 12 | $250,000 | $229,000 to $275,000 |
Own core developer infrastructure platforms, including CI/build systems and deployment orchestration, across the full lifecycle from design through production operation.
Own the architecture of core native app surfaces in Swift and Kotlin, making the structural decisions that product teams build on as they onboard to native.
Own the frontend technical strategy and architecture for financial reconciliation and operations products, including React and TypeScript applications for high-volume financial data, tables, filtering, visualizations, and transaction-level investigation.
Own design and architecture across the FCM core, from market data and order routing through settlement, reporting, and risk. Drive the next-gen replatforming and reduce legacy vendor dependencies while raising stability and reliability.
Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and foundational infrastructure components, including dynamic configuration, container orchestration, and secrets storage, using Golang, gRPC, TypeScript, and React.
Own the design, development, and automation of routing infrastructure that directs application traffic to Kubernetes backends at scale. Build capabilities on top of Envoy-based reverse proxies, Istio gateways, Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE service authentication.
Own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of capabilities across authentication, OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery, and edge authorization.
Coinbase · 5mo ago
Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, with feedback speed as a core design constraint.
Own end-to-end architecture and technical direction for Coinbase's IDV platform - the decision engine, vendor orchestration layer, and verification infrastructure that all business lines depend on.
Own end-to-end delivery of AI products by building production-grade distributed systems, including serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment orchestration across the full stack throughout the SDLC.
Own the EAA-CX AI maturity and developer-experience roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership, embedding with squads to surface opportunities, prototyping on Coinbase's existing AI platform, and driving adoption through working demos and feedback loops.
Define the short-term and long-term strategic vision for the TRUST network and sequence it into an engineering roadmap with Product.
This work underpins Airbnb’s Data as a Service initiative.
Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Job Seeker Apps team builds the primary interfaces and proactive communication systems that guide millions of users through their job search journey. Our team focuses on transforming the job search experience from passive searching to proactive opportunity.
Our vision is to unlock the full richness of LinkedIn's Economic Graph by building the world's most comprehensive understanding of professional identities and the connections between them.
Location(s): US (remote), Boston (hybrid), or New York (hybrid).
Databricks · 2mo ago
We are looking for an engineer to lead that surface, client and server side.
Databricks · 2mo ago
We are building the data and agent layer underneath that problem, and we are looking for an engineer to help lead that effort.
As a result, the sales intelligence layer increasingly lives in a Data+AI platform. We are looking to productize with data & agents what our customers have been already manually building in our platform.
As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up.
Now we're applying that foundation to more of the business—building workflows and applications that automate manual work, surface the right information at the right time, and help teams make better decisions.
ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Wallet - Authentication team, which builds the core sign-in, registration, and account management experiences that over 170 million members rely on to access the ID.me identity wallet.
Own and deliver features for systems such as Forge, Anduril’s production platform. Level up our team’s applications through quality code contribution and writing tests. Leverage frontier AI tooling for development, and contribute to our local AI harnesses.
The Performance & Analytics team works on calculating, reporting, and effectively presenting performance and attribution metrics across investments leveraging modern OLAP and Columnar technologies.
You'll turn complex financial problems into software used across accounting, reporting, compliance and investor operations. This is a hands-on Staff role.
We are looking for an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our emerging agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) based in the United States. The Staff Software Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and scaling the infrastructure behind a global financial technology platform serving millions of users.
As a Staff/Senior Cloud Engineer at Harness, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure.
Join the platform team at an early-stage AI company working in manufacturing supply chains. You will build the backend services, data systems, and AI capabilities that support reliable procurement and movement of materials through complex workflows.
At Databricks, we don’t just build software for the cloud; we are "cloud maximalists." We run our platform across every region of every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, and GCP) simultaneously, creating a technical surface area that is unique in the industry.
Build and develop platform services that manage the full agent lifecycle from registration through deployment, execution, and teardown.
We're seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to drive the technical direction of Spark Structured Streaming, spanning both open source and Databricks-specific components.
Staff Software Engineer - Money Team. At Databricks, we are obsessed with Data + AI to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what’s next.
Lucid Motors · 12d ago
Own end-to-end test development, execution and release tracking, test reporting, defect management, and the coordination of incoming and outgoing cross-functional tickets to ensure timely resolution and clear stakeholder communication.
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
Independently scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex, cross-cutting challenges spanning backend services, web, and mobile — owning multi-system outcomes end to end.
This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.
The median Staff Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $255,000 a year, based on 580 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $227,000 to $288,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Staff Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Staff Software Engineer listings range from $110,000 to $485,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $227,000 and the 75th percentile is $288,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Staff Software Engineer listings are Anthropic (55 listings, median $445,000), Databricks (34 listings, median $228,000), Snowflake (18 listings, median $288,000), Shield AI (18 listings, median $271,000) and Coinbase (16 listings, median $237,000).
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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