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Software Engineer salary in San Francisco
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
$196,000–$355,500
Median $264,500 / year
Based on 565 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$196,000
25th percentile
$264,500
Market median
$355,500
75th percentile
$158,500
Lower market
$196,000
25th percentile
$355,500
75th percentile
$402,500
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 Software Engineer pay by market
Currencies are never blended or silently converted
San Francisco
395 samples$270,000
$194,000–$330,063 typical
San Mateo
99 samples$295,250
$199,885–$320,145 typical
New York
96 samples$225,313
$188,250–$271,243 typical
Toronto
69 samplesCA$139,378
CA$108,000–CA$190,000 typical
New York City
63 samples$230,000
$178,125–$259,500 typical
Foster City
52 samples$238,750
$218,375–$302,000 typical
Menlo Park
38 samples$250,000
$195,000–$287,600 typical
Mountain View
36 samples$225,813
$194,950–$235,400 typical
Bellevue
34 samples$230,825
$214,700–$262,906 typical
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Software Engineer jobs in San Francisco
Software Engineer, Developer Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
$179K – $200K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Financial Crimes
San Francisco, CA, United States
$236K – $295K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer II
San Francisco, CA, United States
$140K – $170K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA, United States
$212K – $265K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
$240K – $400K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, Payroll Platform
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
$196K – $355.5K/yr
Jobiba market estimate · high confidence
Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems
San Francisco, California
$192K – $260K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Backend Software Engineer- (Databricks AI)
San Francisco, California
$166K – $225K/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 565 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Software Engineer salary in San Francisco: common questions
What is the average Software Engineer salary in San Francisco in 2026?
The median Software Engineer salary in San Francisco is $264,500 a year, based on 565 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $196,000 and $355,500 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
How much does an entry-level Software Engineer earn in San Francisco compared with experienced hires?
By experience level in the postings Jobiba could classify: Entry level: $134,600 median (16 postings); Mid level: $189,182 median (47 postings); Senior level: $286,750 median (138 postings); 3+ Years: $180,000 median (6 postings). Bands with too few postings are not shown.
Which cities pay the most for Software Engineer jobs?
Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are San Mateo ($295,250 median, 99 postings), Menlo Park ($250,000 median, 38 postings), Foster City ($238,750 median, 52 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.
How does Jobiba calculate Software Engineer salary in San Francisco?
From 565 salary-listed 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.