Remote Software Engineer salary
Base pay in the United States, from 443 postings by 112 employers that published the pay range.
Median base pay per year
$212,000
A typical posting offers $183,000 to $248,000.
10th percentile $188k – $246k
middle half $279k
90th percentile
What a Software Engineer does
Software engineers design, write, test and maintain the code behind applications and services. The title is the generalist one: depending on the team, the work can span user interfaces, server-side logic, data storage and the tooling that ships it all. They are responsible for turning product requirements into working, maintainable software and for keeping it running once it is live.
By level
| Level | Typical range | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $152,500 – $229,000 | $192,000 | 98 |
| Senior | $169,500 – $220,000 | $200,000 | 172 |
| Staff & Principal | $212,000 – $280,000 | $245,000 | 171 |
By employer
| Employer | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $445,000 | 9 |
| OpenAI | $355,500 | 3 |
| Arcadia | $300,000 | 2 |
| Headway | $298,000 | 5 |
| Discord | $294,500 | 2 |
| AlphaSense | $292,500 | 4 |
| Block | $272,500 | 17 |
| $271,000 | 15 | |
| Cohere | $250,000 | 4 |
| OpenRouter | $250,000 | 6 |
Open Software Engineer jobs with published pay
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Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
OpenAI · Remote (US)
Engineering Full-time $401K - $510K Posted Mar 25, 2026 -
Senior+ Software Engineer, Legal Tech
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Engineering $320,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Sep 28, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Engineering $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Feb 13, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Deployment
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Engineering $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Oct 28, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Velocity
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Engineering $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Jun 12, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Memory & Search
Anthropic · Remote · New York City, NY
Engineering $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Oct 19, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, People Products
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Design $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Feb 12, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Engineering $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted Aug 7, 2026 -
Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Design $405,000 – $485,000 per year Posted May 4, 2026 -
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
OpenAI · Remote (US)
Engineering Full-time $266K - $445K Posted Oct 6, 2025