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 |
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain. Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions. Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain. Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions. Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
As a Staff Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders.
The application window is expected to close on: 12/22/2026. This is a Hybrid position requiring Tuesdays and Thursdays on-site. In CA, the on-site requirement is Tuesdays in San Francisco and Thursdays in San Jose, CA; in NYC, Tuesdays and Thursdays are on-site in our NYC office.
Build Python FastAPI services, data models and reusable connectors for Okta, AWS, ServiceNow and enterprise applications. Implement durable execution with Step Functions, SQS and EventBridge. Handle approval waits, rate limits, duplicate events and safe retries.
As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale.
Act as a liaison between the engineering, security and product orgs to develop innovative requirements for the security roadmap. Evangelize security best practices across the engineering org.
As a Staff Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale.
We seek a highly impactful and influential Software Engineer to join our macOS engineering team.
We are looking for an experienced full stack Staff Software Engineer (with a focus on UI) who is passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure in a fast-paced agile environment.
We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
With data such as a billion+ historical job postings, tens of millions of active job seekers interacting with our system, and hundreds of billions of impression and click events, there are incredible opportunities to use your skills to build new data-driven features.
Translate customer needs into executable workflows. Map triggers, desired outcomes, participants, evidence, decisions, exceptions, and handoffs across full workflows and their constituent tasks. Build and ship capabilities.
Anyscale · 1mo ago
Anyscale is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical vision for our Infrastructure team.
The UI Foundation team has a deep history at Airbnb, responsible for the design system, accessibility, motion, and the tooling that connects how Airbnb designs and builds products.
Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Our community of guests and hosts rely on Airbnb around the clock to facilitate millions of stays and experiences per day.
As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, you will own and drive high-impact workstreams end to end. You'll take ambiguous problem spaces, such as making experimentation faster and easier, talk to users, define the work, and deliver it.
As a Staff Engineer on the AirCover Insurance Platform, you will lead the design and evolution of the core subsystems that manage policies, coverage, enrollment and regional rules, and the experimentation capabilities that drive attach rate.
The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering and operating the foundational platforms and cloud environment that power Airbnb. We provide reliable, secure, efficient, and ergonomic platform for all Airbnb services to run seamlessly in the cloud.
Lead the design and development of distributed, cloud-native backend services that power onboarding across Ripple’s product suite. Partner with Product, Compliance, and other engineering teams to design scalable orchestration and data pipelines.
The Data Warehouse Infrastructure team is responsible for the foundational big data infrastructure, which is used by hundreds of engineers to collect, manage, and analyze data at scale. We are using open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Airflow etc.
We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure organization and lead our efforts in building Data Catalog infrastructure products across Airbnb’s Data Ecosystem.
Databricks · 3mo ago
As part of the AI team, you'll build the platforms and products that power everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and Vector Search.
As a Staff Software Engineer for AI Runtime, you will play a critical role in building and scaling the systems that make large-scale training fast, reliable, and effortless.
We are hiring Senior / Staff Software Engineers to build the foundations that make our robots useful, reliable and maintainable.
The Screenings & Verifications organization at Checkr develops and delivers the screening and verification products that power informed risk assessments for our customers.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Harvey, you'll play a critical role in designing and building new infrastructure systems while equally scaling and strengthening our existing infrastructure.
As a Staff Software Engineer (IC4) on the Streaming & Workflows (SAW) team, you will serve as the dedicated company-wide technical owner and architect for SoFi’s distributed Workflow Orchestration Platform (Temporal Cloud).
This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.
Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-functional features across the product, from architecture through production operations.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Design System team, you will build and evolve the engineering surface of the design system: the theme system, the design tokens, and the tooling that lets engineers, designers, and product teams apply it correctly.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Genie One Mobile & Desktop team, you will define and deliver the technical foundations for this multi-surface experience.
Databricks · 8mo ago
As the Staff Technical Lead (TL) for Customer Experience Intelligence, you’ll shape the future of how Databricks supports customers at scale.
Objective: Be one of the strongest hands-on engineers on LightTable's lean, AI-native team. Own technical judgment, design, and delivery for a feature area, and help the platform expand from drawing review into new pre-construction workflows without a rewrite.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Orders Platform based in United States . We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to help shape and scale a mission-critical ordering platform that powers restaurant operations.
Power, not silicon, is the binding constraint on AI infrastructure. That puts us in a rare position to treat energy management as a software problem and to get more useful compute out of every megawatt we bring online.
Join a cybersecurity product team building new tools for the U.S. federal defense industrial base. This product-focused role spans experimental full-stack products and foundational infrastructure, with ownership across the product lifecycle.
Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming. Work every day with Product and Design to scope features, weigh tradeoffs, and turn workflows into software that’s simple to use and holds up in production.
What started as a DME ePrescribing tool has become the order management platform of choice for home medical equipment. Join our team and make a difference in patient care. Develop in an agile environment, including TDD and flexible pair programming.
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 Engineer on the part of the Lakeflow Disaster Recovery team, you will design and implement distributed systems that replicate and recover pipelines across regions.
As a Staff Engineer on the User Activation team, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for horizontal product experiences that accelerate customer adoption and growth.
Databricks · 1y ago
SimSpace builds the environments where the world's leading organizations train, test, and operationalize their cyber capabilities with confidence. We want the engineering teams behind that platform to set the standard for building software in the age of AI, not catch up to it.
The Security Factory: Code Scanning team develops GitLab's SAST capabilities for customer software repositories.
Lead hands-on experimentation, evaluation, and production rollout of modern AI capabilities, frameworks, and workflows (LLMs, model gateways, retrieval systems) across the engineering & enterprise platforms.
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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