Staff Software Developer Salary Guide in United States

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers. You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools. We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on. This includes Claude and Cursor. You will have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind. Impact is key to everything we do here. You will work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions. You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitori

About the Team Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels. We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize. About the Role We’re looking for experienced Staff+ full-stack engineers to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products. You’ll work across web experiences, product APIs, and shared components, combining strong product judgment with technical depth. The work ranges from improving checkout conversion and performance to enabling new pricing models, offers, and ways for customers to purchase our products. You’ll help identify opportunities, turn ambiguous goals into concrete technical plans, and lead initiatives from exploration through launch. As patterns emerge across products, you’ll develop reusable capabilities that make future launches faster and more consistent. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial ownership over architecture, implementation, and product outcomes. This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office. In this role, you will: Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through the product APIs and backend integrations that support them. Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights. Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities that support new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels. Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer-AI Security to join our team. This is a Hybrid (based in San Jose, CA or Bellevue, WA with a 3 days in office requirement) role, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering in the Emerging Tech department. You will be responsible for designing and implementing core infrastructure components and distributed systems, serving as a foundational architect for our AI security solution. This high-impact role focuses on scaling security infrastructure to support hundreds of millions of users, collaborating with stakeholders across the development lifecycle to drive innovation and technical excellence. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Architect, develop, and optimize a low-latency, high-throughput AI Security plane utilizing Rust, specifically leveraging its async/await model for highly efficient I/O and service-oriented architecture Build resi

About the Team OpenAI’s Application Engineering team builds the internal products and platforms that help OpenAI operate securely and at scale. We engineer, own, and evolve OpenAI’s core productivity ecosystem, creating secure applications, integrations, automation, and reusable tooling where off-the-shelf software is not enough. Our work spans employee-facing experiences and the services, APIs, control planes, and governance that make them reliable, permission-aware, and scalable. We also act as a customer zero for OpenAI’s technology, building the enterprise foundations that let employees and agents safely access the context, tools, and actions they need. We partner closely with IT, Security, product teams, and platform providers to turn company-wide problems into durable systems, learn from real internal workflows, and help shape the products we deploy. We create paved paths that let teams move quickly without compromising security or operational quality. About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer on Agent Productivity, you will shape the foundation that enables teams to build agents with secure access to the context and capabilities they need. Slack will be the first and deepest implementation surface—and where you spend most of your time—owning its application architecture, integrations, APIs, governance, and administration automation while building patterns that extend to internal systems, identity platforms, and other enterprise applications. This is a hands-on engineering role with broad organizational impact as agents support more employee workflows. You will define platform architecture, build reusable foundations, and establish secure patterns for identity, permissions, connectivity, and operations that make agents easier to develop, deploy, and manage. In this role, you will: Own the technical strategy and architecture that enable teams to build, connect, and deploy agents quickly and safely, using Slack as the primary implementation surface. Design and

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role We are seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Advisor Experience team as our Technical Lead. Our team is focused on building tools for financial advisors to grow and sustain their business. We oversee bespoke products for advisors and develop advisor-focused capabilities throughout the Addepar platform. In this role, you will be the primary technical anchor for new capabilities including Secure Message Center — a compliant messaging experience built into Addepar's client portal that allows advisors and their clients to communicate directly within the platform. You will partner directly with Engineering Leadership and Product Management to build a modern, scalable architecture from the ground up. Beyond system design, you will act as a true engineering multiplier: setting technical standards, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and working alongside other senior engineers and AI specialists to deliver high-impact advisor tools. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employme

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Product at Brex The Product team is at the forefront of Brex's mission to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions. With a deep understanding of the business, we identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities for Brex to tackle. We are responsible for aligning cross-functional teams — such as Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Design — on key decisions. We set strategy and drive products from inception to launch, enabling Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential. What you’ll do Brex has an abundance of opportunities to develop tech-enabled infrastructure and applications to drive GTM productivity, measured by pipeline dollars, conversion rates, customer activation, retention, and ultimately revenue. This role will drive key initiatives to work with a dedicated Engineering and Design team and a set of XFN partners to develop tech-enabled tooling, infrastructure, and applicati

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Product at Brex The Product team is at the forefront of Brex's mission to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions. With a deep understanding of the business, we identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities for Brex to tackle. We are responsible for aligning cross-functional teams — such as Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Design — on key decisions. We set strategy and drive products from inception to launch, enabling Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential. What you’ll do Brex has an abundance of opportunities to develop tech-enabled infrastructure and applications to drive GTM productivity, measured by pipeline dollars, conversion rates, customer activation, retention, and ultimately revenue. This role will drive key initiatives to work with a dedicated Engineering and Design team and a set of XFN partners to develop tech-enabled tooling, infrastructure, and applicati

Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Product at Brex The Product team is at the forefront of Brex's mission to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions. With a deep understanding of the business, we identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities for Brex to tackle. We are responsible for aligning cross-functional teams — such as Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Design — on key decisions. We set strategy and drive products from inception to launch, enabling Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential. What you’ll do Brex has an abundance of opportunities to develop tech-enabled infrastructure and applications to drive GTM productivity, measured by pipeline dollars, conversion rates, customer activation, retention, and ultimately revenue. This role will drive key initiatives to work with a dedicated Engineering and Design team and a set of XFN partners to develop tech-enabled tooling, infrastructure, and applicati

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 Role Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Staff AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Frameworks to join our AI Platform team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in building a cutting-edge platform that empowers our users to create and deploy sophisticated intelligent agents, with a key focus on enabling collaborative and multi-agentic behaviors . This is a backend-focused role that requires deep expertise in AI, large language models (LLMs), and orchestration software. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain a robust platform to enable users to create and manage AI agents and their interactions. Integrate and work with multiple LLMs, ensuring seamless orchestration and scalability for both individual and coordinated agent operations. Leverage orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and others to build complex workflows and pipelines that support diverse agent functionalities, including frameworks for multi-agent coordination . Develop and implement evaluation frameworks for testing AI agents in challenging and complex scenarios, focusing on individual performance and system-level dynamics. Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, incorporating the latest research and technologies into our platform to enhance agent capabilities and collaboration. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and frontend engineers, to deliver a seamless user experience for building and deploying intelligent systems. Address challenging AI privacy scenarios, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and best practices within agent-based applications. Contribute

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. About Our Team Our team builds and enables scalable, cloud-native software platforms that power critical manufacturing and business operations. We use modern full stack engineering practices and AI-driven technologies to create innovative solutions that improve automation, decision making, and operational efficiency. Position Overview We are seeking an AI-Centric Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and support modern software solutions with a strong focus on AI-enabled applications and intelligent automation. This role goes beyond simply using AI coding assistants. You will have strong understanding of Prompt Engineering, Vibe Coding, Rework Rate Reduction and leverage Custom Agents, and integrations built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will apply strong software engineering fundamentals to assemble, integrate, and operationalize AI capabilities into real production systems being accountable for Full-Stack solutions. The goal of this role is to significantly shorten development and feedback cycles by automating routine engineering work, augmenting human decision-making, and embedding intelligence directly into our development workflows and the applications we deliver! Responsibilities Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable full stack applications and platform services. Own software solutions end-to-end, including system design, architecture, implementation, testing, observability, deployment, and lifecycle support. Develop an

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. About Our Team Our team builds and enables scalable, cloud-native software platforms that power critical manufacturing and business operations. We use modern full stack engineering practices and AI-driven technologies to create innovative solutions that improve automation, decision making, and operational efficiency. Position Overview We are seeking an AI-Centric Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and support modern software solutions with a strong focus on AI-enabled applications and intelligent automation. This role goes beyond simply using AI coding assistants. You will have strong understanding of Prompt Engineering, Vibe Coding, Rework Rate Reduction and leverage Custom Agents, and integrations built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You will apply strong software engineering fundamentals to assemble, integrate, and operationalize AI capabilities into real production systems being accountable for Full-Stack solutions. The goal of this role is to significantly shorten development and feedback cycles by automating routine engineering work, augmenting human decision-making, and embedding intelligence directly into our development workflows and the applications we deliver! Responsibilities Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable full stack applications and platform services. Own software solutions end-to-end, including system design, architecture, implementation, testing, observability, deployment, and lifecycle support. Deve

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Why Us We are a multi-disciplinary and multinational team focused in using next-generation sequencing technology to transform human health and save patient’s lives. Our team works at the interface of research and clinical practice developing and improving innovative algorithms to biomarkers and variants that fill gaps in clinical practice, focusing primarily on oncology. We collaborate deeply with internal and external teams, to augment DRAGEN, Illumina’s software platform to analyze high-throughput sequencing data, remove barriers for its use in clinical settings, and develop new biomarkers in areas such as MRD and methylation. Why You We know the importance of your role and offer you a collaborative and supportive environment in which you are actively encouraged to develop your skills and knowledge. Illumina's mission is to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome - if that inspires you, let's talk. If you are excited as we are about using genomics to transform the practice of medicine, have a proven track record of algorithm development, data analysis, and strong coding ability, this is the ro

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. 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. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Platform is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their users’ experiences. Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like search, cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers. We're looking for a staff level backend engineer to join a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is changing the cloud computing landscape forever. You will: Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructu

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to push the boundaries of what AI systems can do — but inference is still the bottleneck. The Model Efficiency team is responsible for pushing the limits of LLM inference efficiency across our foundation models. We explore and ship breakthroughs across the model execution stack, including: model architecture and MoE routing optimization decoding and inference-time algorithm improvements software/hardware co-design for GPU acceleration performance optimization without compromising model quality Please Note: We have offices in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seoul and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, expertise, and time zones to promote collaboration and flexibility. You'll find the Model Efficiency team concentrated in the EST and PST time zones, these are our preferred locations. As a Staff Research Engineer, you will develop, prototype, and deploy techniques that materially improve how fast and efficiently our models run in production. You may be a good fit

About the Team ChatGPT is a rapidly evolving system: new capabilities ship continuously, product surfaces change quickly, and usage patterns shift week-to-week. Supporting that pace requires infrastructure that can handle real production constraints—high concurrency, unpredictable traffic patterns, complex dependency graphs, and frequent change. The ChatGPT Infrastructure team builds and operates the platforms that enable fast iteration without compromising performance or reliability. We design shared systems, data paths, rollout mechanisms, and reliability guardrails that teams rely on to ship changes to ChatGPT at scale. We focus on high-leverage infrastructure: primitives and “golden paths” that incorporate operational lessons as defaults, so engineers don’t need to rediscover failure modes, latency pitfalls, or integration issues each time they build something new. About the Role We’re hiring Senior and Staff Engineers to design and build infrastructure systems that underlie ChatGPT and multiply the effectiveness of teams building user experiences. This is not a support-only role. It’s a platform-building role: you’ll define interfaces, develop core abstractions, and create tooling to make safe, fast iteration the norm. Your work will reduce friction, prevent regressions, improve performance, and ensure systems scale gracefully as the product grows. Where You Can Have Impact You might work on one or more of the following areas (without being restricted to any single area): Platform foundations & frameworks: Core libraries, service frameworks, and shared components that standardize system building, integration, and evolution. Scalability & performance primitives: Patterns and infrastructure that reduce tail latency, improve throughput, and keep costs predictable as demand increases. Reliability guardrails: Mechanisms that prevent outages by design—rate limiting, load shedding, dependency isolation, backpressure, safe fallbacks, and robust regression contr