Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $188,000 |
| Median | $200,000 |
| 75th percentile | $232,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $517,000 |
| Listings counted | 171 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 87 | $198,000 |
| Lead | 5 | $200,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage | 21 | $187,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 13 | $195,000 |
| NVIDIA | 9 | $213,000 |
| Esri | 9 | $198,000 |
| Zoox | 7 | $248,000 |
| Cloudflare | 7 | $200,000 |
| OpenAI | 5 | $286,000 |
| Waymo | 5 | $257,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 144 | $201,000 | $190,000 to $240,000 |
| Canada | USD | 7 | $194,000 | $183,000 to $210,000 |
You'll design and build the core infrastructure that powers AI inference across Cloudflare's global network — real-time voice, frontier open LLMs, and customer-deployed models running on a heterogeneous fleet of GPUs and next-generation accelerators in hundreds of cities…
The IT System Operations Team provides engineering and operational expertise to the OpenAI IT organization.
You will own the server hardware lifecycle from issue detection, to repair, through recovery.
The Avionics team is responsible for all aspects of the electrical design on the rocket, from electronics, interconnects, associated mechanical design, testing and initial production.
Adaptive Financial Consulting · 7d ago
We're looking for a Senior Java / Systems Engineer with significant experience in Platform Exchange Systems to design, deliver, and optimize production-ready, high-performance, low-latency technology using Aeron.
Rocket Lab · 10d ago
We’re hiring a Design Systems Engineer to be one of the few engineers building the components that every Ramp product team uses — the person who makes our design system real in code.
As part of the product engineering group, you will handle debugging Datacenter DGX, MGX, and HGX products, focusing on identifying the root causes of factory build problems.
About the Role We are looking for a strategic, hands-on Systems Engineer to lead the next wave of finance technology transformation at Block. We operate with an AI-first engineering mindset .
As a Legal Systems Engineer, you will lead the design and evolution of the systems that power Legal, combining software engineering, system architecture, and legal domain expertise.
Everpure is hiring a Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to be the senior technical lead on a portfolio of the world’s largest and most strategic financial institutions: global banks, asset managers and payment networks.
Rocket Lab · 2mo ago
Anduril is seeking a talented growth-minded Systems Engineer to join our Strategic Defense team in Washington, DC; or Huntsville, AL.
As a Senior Engineer focused on Cloudflare's storage and database products, you will shape the future of industry-leading services that redefine what is possible for developers.
Visa · 18d ago
Serve as a technical and product subject matter expert for collaboration platforms, with a primary focus on Microsoft Teams and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Join an early-stage fintech team building an AI-powered trading platform. You will develop the reliable, performance-sensitive infrastructure that supports trading workflows and helps make sophisticated trading more accessible.
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.
We are seeking a Systems Engineer to lead product definition for electromechanical systems in the next generation of Teradyne semiconductor test solutions.
IT Engineering at CoreWeave designs, builds, and operates the systems that enable our employees and acquired organizations to work securely and efficiently at scale.
CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Systems Engineer, Legal Systems to build and scale our contract lifecycle management (CLM) and legal technology ecosystem, with a primary focus on Ironclad.
The Product Security team is responsible for conducting structured security analyses of Zoox products and applying security standards judiciously throughout the System Development Life Cycle at Zoox.
Perform functional decomposition to t ranslate complex vehicle-level requirements into clear, verifiable, and traceable BMS and energy storage requirements.
Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.
Design, build, and maintain static and dynamic file analysis pipelines capable of processing artifacts at scale. Maintain, and optimize YARA rule sets, including tooling for rule testing, performance, and false-positive management.
CHAOS IndustriesNew · 1d ago
Lead a team responsible for the design and development of cutting-edge communications and data link systems to interconnect and support Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN). Support key capabilities to support existing CHAOS sensor products.
Build and Optimize Enterprise Technology Supporting Critical National Security Missions.
Join Esri`s Professional Services team and lead the design and delivery of mission critical ArcGIS deployments supporting Defense and Intelligence operations.
In this position, you will deploy and optimize advanced and mission critical ArcGIS deployments. You will partner directly with customers to share best practices on advanced ArcGIS Enterprise deployment architecture and integration topics.
We are looking for a deeply hands-on Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to join the team building IonQ’s Network and Security Platform.
Pure Storage · 8d ago
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making. Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes.
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, with a focus on R1 research universities. R1 institutions are not one customer.
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the cyber resilience space? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Architect, implement, and maintain endpoint management platforms and services supporting Bungie employees and development teams. Own and improve the lifecycle of Bungie’s endpoints from provisioning and configuration through ongoing management and retirement.
This is a hands-on software engineering role on the Cloudflare One Appliance team. You will shape and build the Linux-based edge runtime and distributed control plane that connect customer sites to Cloudflare.
As a Senior Systems Engineer on the Cloudflare Tunnel team, you will drive the technical vision and architect for future scale, ensuring our product securely connects any machine to the Cloudflare network.
The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment.
The Launch team operates at the intersection of every major aspect of Terran R, from stages and payloads to ground systems, launch, landing, and refurbishment.
We’re looking for a Senior Business Systems Engineer to own and evolve Ramp’s Quote-to-Cash systems.
As a People Systems Engineer, you’ll build the custom tools, integrations, and AI agents that make our People platforms work as one system and help our teams support a growing global workforce. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape how we build.
As a Senior IT Systems Engineer at Verkada, you will be responsible for driving technical ownership and delivering advanced solutions across our corporate cloud infrastructure, and identity management systems.
The median Systems Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $200,000 a year, based on 171 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $188,000 to $232,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Systems Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Systems Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $517,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $188,000 and the 75th percentile is $232,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: senior $198,000 (87 listings), lead $200,000 (5 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Systems Engineer listings are Pure Storage (21 listings, median $187,000), Anduril Industries (13 listings, median $195,000), NVIDIA (9 listings, median $213,000), Esri (9 listings, median $198,000) and Zoox (7 listings, median $248,000).
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 13, 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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