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 |
As a Software Engineer, Agents, you'll build the systems that make our AI agents indispensable to legal professionals.
Legal is one of the hardest domains for AI: documents run to hundreds of pages, matters can span millions of files, and there is zero margin for error on accuracy. The AI Platform team builds the foundation that every product and agent team at Harvey builds upon.
Legal professionals spend most of their day in Microsoft Word: drafting, reviewing, and refining complex documents that shape meaningful outcomes. It's one of our most strategic product lines and a key part of how we meet lawyers where they already work.
The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Intelligent Tooling team, you will build and operate internal systems that directly impact how engineers across Plaid do their work, and own the technical direction for major parts of that surface.
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.
Architect Agentic Runtimes: Build and scale the orchestration engines that execute complex agentic workflows, ensuring low-latency tool execution and robust state management.
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.
Lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams. Set technical direction for scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance of the metadata layer. Drive cross-region and cross-cloud replication toward lower RPO and higher reliability.
Snowflake · 27d ago
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.
Drive Technical Vision & Architecture: Define the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for high-throughput, external-facing ingestion services and APIs across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Every major Snowflake customer interacts with our platform through these surfaces, making AppEx central to both customer satisfaction and revenue growth. Within Appex, our team sits at the intersection of AI, platform, and user experience.
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.
The Snowhouse Foundation team builds our globally distributed data warehouse, managing vast petabyte-scale datasets that are continuously ingested, processed, and replicated across all Snowflake environments and external data sources.
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 are seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer / Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to lead the architecture and evolution of the core platform powering our autonomous driving software stack.
Asana · 1mo ago
We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to play a key leadership role in our Developer Productivity group and drive developer velocity and fundamentally change the software development lifecycle with AI.
ServiceNow · 7d ago
Define performance benchmarks, SLAs, and best practices. Analyze and optimize services, databases, and infrastructure. Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests. Build observability and monitor performance metrics of production systems.
As a Senior Staff Engineer in HRSD, you set the technical direction for model-driven capability across the HR domain, the agentic and conversational experiences that interpret employee, manager, and HR agent intent, reason over profile, case, catalog, policy, and knowledge…
You will own Identity and Verification end to end: its architecture, its reliability, its operation in production, and where it goes next.
We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
Zoox's Robot Software Infrastructure team is seeking a passionate software engineer to help develop and advance the common performant operating system that powers several devices on our vehicle including Autonomy systems.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will define how NVIDIA builds and operates autonomous enterprise systems. Your influence will be measured in systems adopted, engineers elevated, and problems that stopped being problems.
Databricks · 3mo ago
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Agentic Applications team, you will be the hands-on technical lead for how Databricks quotes, orders, bills and recognizes revenue.
As a member of the GTM team at Anthropic, you will be a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers and leads the technical direction of their AI adoption.
Nearly every software team at Zoox builds on this layer, so you'll work closely with the teams that use it, and your work shows up directly in how the vehicle drives.
Snorkel AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on Computer Use Agents to partner with leading AI labs and enterprises on their most critical agentic-AI initiatives.
This is an engineering delivery role where you’ll translate ambiguous customer needs into production-grade data, evaluation, and ML-assisted workflows.
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer working on driving behavior verification, you are responsible for implementing metrics that evaluate the end-to-end behavior of the Nuro Driver. These metrics will be used to quantify the safety of the driving behavior in our target ODD.
As a Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments, you'll own the technical foundation for how Scale builds, runs, verifies, and delivers RL environments at scale.
Zoox · 10mo ago
We are looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our cloud services and APIs that handle ride hailing for Zoox’s production-grade robotaxi service.
Snorkel AI · 16d ago
We’re looking for Senior and Staff Product Engineers with strong backend engineering experience and a passion for building excellent products.
Frontier AI data is expensive to make and hard to measure. Every task we deliver is tested against the strongest models, often through many long-running agent rollouts. Your job is to make that process faster, cheaper, and more rigorous with ML and AI.
Zoox is looking for an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to build, scale, and operate our custom High-Performance Computing infrastructure.
Card Tech is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team and fundamentally redefine the speed and quality of software development.
The ManagedTables team at Databricks is responsible for the DataIntelligence initiatives that underpin the Unity Catalog ManagedTables offering.
We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a technical architect and engineering leader for this platform.
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
Databricks · 1y ago
Technical Leadership : Lead the design and delivery of high-impact projects, setting standards for security, usability, performance, and scalability. Mentor senior engineers and elevate development and operational best practices across the organization.
As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products.
Scale GP is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to build and scale multi-cloud infrastructure for secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise AI agentic workflows.
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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