Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $227,000 |
| Median | $256,000 |
| 75th percentile | $288,000 |
| Lowest listing | $110,000 |
| Highest listing | $485,000 |
| Listings counted | 560 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 53 | $445,000 |
| Databricks | 34 | $228,000 |
| Shield AI | 18 | $271,000 |
| Snowflake | 16 | $288,000 |
| Harvey | 15 | $286,000 |
| Coinbase | 15 | $237,000 |
| Zscaler | 15 | $191,000 |
| Riot Games | 14 | $231,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 504 | $256,000 | $228,000 to $288,000 |
| Canada | USD | 12 | $252,000 | $234,000 to $275,000 |
Set the technical vision and roadmap for model training and serving across PMLI, with reusable interfaces to data and feature infrastructure. Lead architectures for distributed training, fine-tuning, distillation, evaluation, and high-scale CPU/GPU inference.
Identify modernization opportunities and scale the roadmap for a company-wide evaluation system in partnership with technical leadership. Define cross-team technical strategy, align partner teams, and drive broad adoption of shared evaluation capabilities.
Shape the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the Notifications & Growth Platform org, aligning architecture and execution plans to Pinterest’s engagement and retention goals.
Veeam Software · 1mo ago
We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to lead System-Level and Infrastructure Testing locally in our San Jose lab.
Veeam Software · 1mo ago
We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) focused on Graph Database Architectures and High-Volume Reporting Engines .
Veeam Software · 1mo ago
We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) specializing in Data Connectors & High-Scale Ingestion .
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 1d ago
Join an AI software team building agents that carry out business tasks across users' tools and systems. This hands-on individual contributor role spans product, platform, and AI infrastructure, with scope shaped around your strengths and interests.
Shield AI · 2mo ago
The Autonomy Capabilities Team develops functionality to automate single- and multi-agent teams of platforms in pursuit of mission objectives and acts as a central discipline-aligned focal-point for encouraging consistent usage of technical approaches across business portfolios.
Shield AI · 2mo ago
In this role, you'll write new autonomy code — such as mission behaviors, platform-specific control, multi-agent coordination, contingencies, and executive autonomy — and own it end-to-end from software-in-the-loop, to hardware-in-the-loop, to vehicle-in-the-loop, to live test…
The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably.
Every dollar Anthropic earns and every dollar it spends on compute has to reach the books correctly, and the volume grows with Claude usage. That data comes from across the company and from partners: usage and billing, compute, infrastructure assets, leases.
Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE) owns physical security across Anthropic's data center footprint: the sites, the hardware inside them, and the supply chain that delivers it.
Storage plays an essential role at Anthropic across research, development, product, and running the business. Our exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage infrastructure underpins training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term data retention.
In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.
Anthropic is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build the technical foundation for how Anthropic educates customers and enterprises at scale, and to shape what that even means when AI is the delivery mechanism, not just the subject being taught.
GTM Systems builds and runs the platform that Sales and contracting operate on.
We are looking for growth engineers to join our growth team. This key role will help drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations.
That work is funded by commercial revenue — and every dollar of it runs through Billing Platform.
As a Staff Software Engineer at EliseAI, you won't just write code; you'll build software that improves business operations and makes a real impact on people's lives. Instead of following a playbook, you’ll be creating it.
Data Lifecycle at Decagon builds the systems that govern how sensitive customer data is handled throughout its lifetime: what we store, who can access it, how we redact it, and when we delete it.
Product Engineering at Decagon builds all aspects of the platform our customers use to create, operate, and improve their AI agents. We turn work that currently requires an engineer into product that a CX team can run themselves. This team is core to how Decagon scales.
We build the security foundations that enable Decagon's AI agents to handle sensitive customer data with complete trust while defending against sophisticated, AI-enabled threats at massive scale. This role sits at the intersection of Security and Infrastructure.
This is the orchestration layer that turns workflows, tools and guardrails into a reliable, low-latency, and delightful experience for end users.
The Voice Agent team builds the real-time systems that allow Decagon agents to carry natural conversations across our omnichannels (phone, web, mobile, etc).
At Block, we strive to build the best financial products in the world. The Financial Platform Acquiring team owns the acquiring side of card payments for Square, Cash App, and Afterpay.
At Block, we strive to build the best financial products in the world.
The Go-to-Market Engineering team builds the systems, automations, and AI-powered experiences that help our sales teams spend less time on manual work and more time serving customers.
At Cash App, we strive to build the best consumer financial products in the world. The Cash App Banking team aspires to make Cash App the primary place for our customers to store, manage, and move money across all their banking needs.
Own the cross-client architecture: Define the shared contracts that Web, iOS, and Android build against, including our rich content model, GraphQL schemas, and shared UI primitives. A feature should be designed once and shipped natively everywhere, not built three bespoke ways.
Help power the development of Replit Agent as a technical leader for the Replit Cloud organization. You will report to the Vice President of Engineering.
Lead the engineering team responsible for the App Promotion objective and App Install Optimization, owning delivery from beta through GA.
At Zoox, you will collaborate with a team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds in areas such as AI, robotics, mechatronics, planning, control, localization, computer vision, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, design, and automated testing.
As a Staff / Senior Staff Technical Lead on Onboard Performance, you will help define and build the high-performance, highly reliable foundation of the Nuro Driver.
Zoox is looking for a Staff Product Security Engineer to define and drive the long-term security strategy for our robots and fleet.
Make Replit the single place where businesses can buy everything they need through their agents.
We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, reporting to the Head of Engineering, Monetization, to shape technical strategy and build scalable, reliable systems across Nextdoor’s native advertising platform and subscription products.
Chime is looking for Senior Staff and Staff Engineers to lead our high impact member Trust and Safety group. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the vision for one of Chime’s foundational pillars.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
In this role you will build powerful tools that help product engineers iterate rapidly on the Agent experience and directly enhance the core Agent itself.
Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable, MCP first systems for merchant onboarding, activation and growth experiences. Partner with Product to shape a growth roadmap, identify high value opportunities and convert the strongest concepts into production experiences.
Architect, build and maintain durable execution platforms supporting crash-recoverable, stateful AI agent workflows. Design standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, SDKs and agent runtime interfaces for cross-functional engineering adoption.
Set technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core. Build and operate scalable, highly available systems with clear performance, reliability, and efficiency goals.
Orchestrate the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems to ensure feature flags, ML settings, and experiments utilize unified paved paths.
Define and drive technical direction for foundational web capabilities that product engineers use directly, with a primary focus on data fetching.
The median Staff Software Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $256,000 a year, based on 560 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 (53 listings, median $445,000), Databricks (34 listings, median $228,000), Shield AI (18 listings, median $271,000), Snowflake (16 listings, median $288,000) and Harvey (15 listings, median $286,000).
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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