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Lead Software Engineer 3 salary in Washington
Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.
Typical market range
$150,000–$259,375
Median $172,500 / year
Based on 74 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 17 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$150,000
25th percentile
$172,500
Market median
$259,375
75th percentile
$126,000
Lower market
$150,000
25th percentile
$259,375
75th percentile
$333,825
Upper market
Market movement
Not enough historical evidence yet. Trend is shown only when both 90-day windows have enough comparable observations, preventing noisy “growth” claims from tiny samples.
Location intelligence
Compare Lead Software Engineer 3 pay by market
Currencies are never blended or silently converted
San Francisco
338 samples$270,000
$186,000–$338,625 typical
San Mateo
79 samples$311,785
$220,020–$320,145 typical
New York
70 samples$218,000
$181,625–$252,025 typical
Toronto
65 samplesCA$139,378
CA$108,000–CA$190,000 typical
New York City
37 samples$144,375
$10,000–$242,250 typical
Menlo Park
36 samples$257,750
$195,000–$287,606 typical
Seattle
24 samples$220,500
$149,475–$287,250 typical
Washington
23 samples$167,500
$133,000–$167,500 typical
Palo Alto
20 samples$310,000
$259,375–$310,000 typical
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Live opportunity layer
Lead Software Engineer 3 jobs in Washington
Staff Software Engineer, Security
Bellevue, Washington
$194K – $267K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, OIG
Bellevue, Washington
$194K – $267K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion
Bellevue, Washington, United States
$236K – $339.2K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer, Anti-Abuse
Bellevue, Washington, United States
$264K – $379.5K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer — Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration
Bellevue, Washington, United States
$160K – $230K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Principal Software Engineer
Renton, Washington, United States
$172.6K – $259K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, Acquisition
Seattle, Washington, United States
$240K – $300K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer - Security & Trust
Seattle, Washington, United States
$110K – $145K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
How Jobiba calculates this
Evidence first, estimate second
- • Uses recent active Jobiba listings that contain employer/source salary data.
- • Requires an explicit salary currency and pay period before a listing can enter an aggregate.
- • Applies broad currency-specific plausibility floors/ceilings, then rejects extreme statistical outliers.
- • Groups title variants through Jobiba's canonical salary-role taxonomy so current estimates and historical trends use the same comparable cohort.
- • Annualizes hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay; no foreign-exchange conversion is used.
- • Uses percentile medians and publishes a range only after the minimum comparable sample is reached.
- • Labels inferred pay on salary pages/jobs as a Jobiba estimate, never as employer-provided compensation.
Based on 74 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 17 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Lead Software Engineer 3 salary in Washington: common questions
What is the average Lead Software Engineer 3 salary in Washington in 2026?
The median Lead Software Engineer 3 salary in Washington is $172,500 a year, based on 74 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $150,000 and $259,375 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
Which cities pay the most for Lead Software Engineer 3 jobs?
Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are San Mateo ($311,785 median, 79 postings), Palo Alto ($310,000 median, 20 postings), San Francisco ($270,000 median, 338 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.
How does Jobiba calculate Lead Software Engineer 3 salary in Washington?
From 74 active Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.