Staff Backend Engineer salary

Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.

Skills and pay

Skills linked to higher Staff Backend Engineer pay

How much higher or lower the median is for job posts that mention a skill. It shows an association, not a guarantee: better-paid jobs often bundle several scarce skills with senior scope. Skills with fewer than 8 salaries are left out.

Pay listed by employers

Latest Staff Backend Engineer jobs that show their pay

Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.

• Staff Backend Engineer - Device SecurityVerkada · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$200,000 – $300,000
• Staff Backend Engineer, Developer ExperienceGitLab · Senior level · posted 26 Aug 2026$131,600 – $282,000
• Staff Backend Engineer, User SafetyReddit · Senior level · posted 23 Oct 2026$217,000 – $303,900
• Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation (Go)GitLab · Senior level · posted 10 Sept 2026$152,800 – $259,200
• Staff Backend Engineer, SearchClickup · Senior level · posted 19 Aug 2026
  $250,000 – $300,000

Related roles

Roles close to Staff Backend Engineer

Roles that hire from the same employers, in the same currency. Each has its own median and sample, so the difference compares two separate groups.

• Product Managermedian $211,100 · 493 salaries▼ down −0.4%
• Engineering Managermedian $250,000 · 407 salaries▲ up +17.9%
• Senior Software Engineermedian $212,500 · 657 salaries▲ up +0.2%
• DevOps Engineermedian $172,500 · 86 salaries▼ down −18.6%
• Machine Learning Engineermedian $243,290 · 173 salaries▲ up +14.8%
• Operations Managermedian $152,000 · 199 salaries▼ down −28.3%

Evidence

Where these numbers come from

15 salaries from 7 employers, posted between 3 Nov 2025 and 3 Nov 2026. Last updated 3 Nov 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.

• Employer hiring-system feeds 87%
• Other sources 13%