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 |
This role is a technical leader for the API Management platform. You will coordinate the work of other engineers, set technical direction, improve existing structures and processes, and make design decisions that affect the internal and external teams building on PayPal’s APIs.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Agent & Partner Experiences team, you'll be a key technical leader responsible for influencing the team and broader organization as we build and scale our platform.
Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Filevine's Engineering team and build reliable, scalable software.
As a staff software engineer for GenAI inference, you will lead the architecture, development, and optimization of the inference engine that powers Databricks Foundation Model API..
You'll join a small, fast-moving team building Chainguard Harness. Customers trust us with their source code, so security isn't just a feature of this product.
This team owns the APIs, entitlements, policies, and platform primitives that enable everything else. It's the first thing a customer touches and the integration layer every internal team depends on.
You will be key part of design, operations, and evolution of our Unified Communications platform, spanning Cisco Webex RoomOS and room systems, Microsoft Teams Rooms, and related collaboration services.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an infrastructure platform to run modern workloads, from mission-critical workflows to containerized apps in the private cloud.
ID.me is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (SDE5), PostgreSQL Specialist to lead the engineering, evolution, and operational excellence of our PostgreSQL-based data platform .
It provides end-to-end visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time risk detection to help engineering teams ensure software integrity, prevent tampering, and comply with evolving supply chain security standards.As part of this team, you’ll work on a fast-growing product that…
As the Staff Software Engineer for Customer Experience Intelligence, you will architect and deliver Databricks' AI-native vertical workflow platform.
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.
We are looking for a staff back-end engineer to set the technical direction for the platform retailers use to integrate with Signifyd.
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 · 12d 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.
The Hardware Automation team builds the internal platforms and tooling that power how Nebius operates its data center infrastructure at scale.
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.
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.
Design and build core platform components to support AI integration, ensuring reliability and performance across distributed systems.
The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026. Join Splunk and help shape the future of machine data! At Splunk, we’re driven by a bold vision: to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone.
We safeguard Okta from threats and vulnerabilities that could disrupt our business or erode our customers’ trust.
Build, test, and maintain fault-tolerant infrastructure for GraphQL runtime platforms, primarily in idiomatic Rust, ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
Lead individuals or teams across programs and product lines through full-lifecycle development, concept to delivery. Maintain schedule plans and roadmaps for team efforts. Serve as technical expert for networking products.
Pathstream is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead large, cross-team technical work on our platform. This is a senior individual contributor role on one of our engineering pods.
As a Staff Software Engineer for Search Quality, you will drive the technical direction of ranking, relevance, evaluation, and quality initiatives across Databricks’ next-generation Search product.
Build the next generation of signals and measurement systems for Snap’s ad platform. Work end-to-end across stack innovating on novel product or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization.
Set the technical vision and multi-year architecture for Spam & Abuse, spanning spam and bot detection, account takeover defense, the detection and enforcement platform, and secure mobile client flows.
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.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Services, you’ll help shape the architecture and technical direction of web-based products that extend Thunderbird beyond email.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Services, you’ll help shape the architecture and technical direction of web-based products that extend Thunderbird beyond email.
We are seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Data Substrate team.
Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems.
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.
• 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 seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to help build Adobe’s next-generation AI-first marketing platform.
Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.
We are hiring a hands-on Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead to establish technical ownership of our U.S. software platform and help a growing engineering team deliver reliable, maintainable products.
You’ll be a key engineer focused on building and owning the systems that move money and assets through Gusto Retirement. This is a very hands-on role: owning backend services and APIs end-to-end, shipping production code, and working through real financial edge cases.
You'll join the Application Engineering team, which supports the platforms we use to deliver exceptional Sales and CX interactions. Our platforms have tremendous scale, and the work we do here directly shapes how the rest of Gusto operates.
We're looking for seasoned full-stack software engineers to join the teams behind Gusto's customer-facing products — the features and experiences that small business owners and their employees rely on every day.
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.
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