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 |
Acquisition Engineering owns the customer journey from first touch to first value: helping prospective customers discover Brex, apply, get approved, onboard quickly, and adopt more of the platform over time.
Snorkel's Platform organization owns the infrastructure and services that power everything at Snorkel — the pipelines, evals, access layers, event systems, governance, compute, and agent infrastructure that every product team and customer deployment depends on.
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…
GoogleNew · 2d ago
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…
GoogleNew · 2d ago
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…
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 1d ago
Join a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered software products and the infrastructure behind them. You will own critical platform capabilities that help bring reliable, user-facing products from early requirements to production.
Model development produces experiments, checkpoints, evaluation results and many versions of the same model. Keeping those records connected lets engineers reproduce results, compare approaches and move a trained model into use.
Shield AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help drive the design, development, and integration of a safety critical Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product.
The Verkada Security Team is a software engineering team at its core- we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale Verkada’s security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks.
Verkada · 5mo ago
Behind the scenes, we’re a team of computer scientists, hardware engineers and experienced founders who saw a chance to make a real impact.
The Verkada Security Team is an engineering team at its core. Part of its charter is to build frameworks, tools, and platform services for security and privacy controls.
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to work across some of the most technically demanding parts of LiveKit's platform — core services, telephony, and observability. At LiveKit, the infrastructure is the product — you're not building the layer underneath, you are the layer.
We're looking for a Staff Engineer for our Messaging Experience team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Canvas, our flagship product. That means supporting the orchestration and sending of messages for clients worldwide.
Squarespace is seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to support and evolve the systems at the core core of our monetization platform: billing, payments and orders.
Define the technical strategy to make the native app development future at Coinbase a reality.
Own the multi-year technical strategy for IAM end to end, including the architecture that unifies workforce, AI agent, and service/workload identity under a common model with shared primitives for authentication, authorization, provisioning, and governance.
Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Blockchain Platform, spanning nodes, wallets, indexing, and asset lifecycle, to support new chain integrations, new products, and significant growth in onchain transaction volume.
At Databricks, we are obsessed with Data + AI to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
Databricks · 5mo ago
We are looking for a senior technical leader to drive strategy and execution across three closely related teams at the heart of that mission: Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance.
Databricks · 1y ago
We are developing a growing ecosystem of applications and partners on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Our team creates frameworks, tools, and best practices to enable seamless integrations, helping developers and partners build impactful solutions.
Sony Interactive Entertainment · 10d ago
As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence.
Sony Interactive Entertainment America · 5d ago
·Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed data systems that power real-time and near real-time analytics,, and data-driven applications across PlayStation.
Work closely with product management, product engineering, product design peers as well as other teams within the company to define the first version and future evolution of the service.
Play a key role in defining the 12-month roadmap for Query Execution by researching state-of-the-art systems and leveraging your deep knowledge of industry trends to provide technical vision and direction.
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.
As a Technical Lead on Zoox's internal agentic platform, you will own end-to-end integration of a tool-centric agent runtime with external and internal agent clients, line of business backends, scheduled and interactive agent workloads, and cloud operations (Kubernetes,…
Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
Shield AI · 3mo ago
Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.
Shield AI · 5mo 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 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.
Anduril Industries · 3d ago
In the Space Special Programs team, we build spacecraft and space systems which serve a wide variety of functions in the space architecture.
Time-Series: We're redesigning the time-series engine from the ground up to scale horizontally across many writers and nodes.
The Internal AI team builds Anduril’s AI infrastructure and tooling that all employees across the company rely on every day.
The Software Platform Foundations team at Anduril is dedicated to building the foundational systems that empower our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy cutting-edge defense technology with unparalleled efficiency and reliability.
Anduril’s Electronic Warfare (EW) team is seeking experienced generalist embedded software engineers to build out the software ecosystem supporting a next-generation electronic warfare platform.
The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.
Anduril Industries · 9d ago
Anduril's Maritime Division is transforming American sea power to meet the defining national security challenges of our era and secure our future of maritime dominance.
The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.
Join AI Growth & Innovation, where you take emerging AI from zero to N - building and enhancing agentic systems, real-time voice, and multimodal experiences directly in production with real customers.
Venmo's identity infrastructure is foundational — it underpins trust, safety, and compliance for every transaction on the platform.
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.
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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