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Software Engineer salary in San Francisco
Average Base Salary in San Francisco
$172,171
$6,733
Additional Cash Compensation
$178,904
Total Compensation
Median: $172K
Min: $150K
Max: $204K
How Much Does a Software Engineer Make in San Francisco?
The average salary for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $172,171. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $6,733. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $178,904. Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In San Francisco from anonymous Software Engineer employees in San Francisco.
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Software Engineer jobs in San Francisco
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We are seeking Software Engineers to help us build proprietary software that will disrupt the way electronics are manufactured. We are working to revolutionize the electronics manufacturing industry by enabling companies to achieve their goals quicker and more efficiently, by providing prototypes in days, as opposed to weeks, or even months.
At Nylas, our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. Our hosted sync platform and APIs enable developers to quickly integrate their apps with email, contacts, and calendar across all providers(including Exchange).
We are changing the way companies and developers innovate with e-mail and messaging. Customers like Pipedrive, Hyundai, and Lever use our cloud messaging APIs to power their products and accelerate
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Spotlight
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As a Senior Engine Programmer on the Spotlight Team, you will work closely with top game developers to really push the boundaries of what is possible in Unity. You will implement new Unity features, or optimize current features in conjunction with our partners. You will work with many different teams so you should enjoy meeting new people, and be prepared to travel. This is a great opportunity to contribute to high-quality projects without being tied to the 2-3 year development cycles that typically involves.
Software Engineering Manager
We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our engineering team. You will lead and manage a team of 3+ engineers. You’ll work your product managers, designers, our senior factory staff, and your engineers to spec and build out projects while balancing operational needs with future focused work. Our team is small, which means every team member is given a lot of responsibility and flexibility, so you'll be a huge part of enabling that!
Senior Software Engineer
We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Our team is small, which means every team member is given a lot of responsibility and flexibility. You’ll work with Engineering Managers, VPs, factory technicians, and other engineers to spec out projects. But in the end, design and execution is up to you.
Providing electrical engineers with the physical equivalent of a fast and correct compiler is extremely difficult, but the payoff is enormous. If we succeed, we will accelerate the development of dozens of critical industries. Instead of having hardware engineers sit on their hands for weeks waiting for prototypes, our platform enables rapid self-service that delivers a prototype in days.
Udemy is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Recommendations Team. Udemy’s personalized recommendations system is composed of batch (e.g. feature and machine learning pipelines), streaming (e.g. feature computation in real-time), and online (e.g. microservices to serve personalized recommendations) components. The team is responsible for all these components, as well as the underlying algorithms and evaluation methodologies.
In this role
About the Role:
Our Build Engineering team has a wide range of responsibilities, from managing CI/CD infrastructure and environments to focusing heavily on engineer’s user experience. We focus on empowering the engineering org to efficiently build, test, and validate their code before releasing to production. We do this through providing consistent development environments, self-service build and test pipelines, and user experience driven
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Do you love what you do? Are you passionate about programming? If you love challenges and strive for excellence, come build the future of learning with us! We are a small, collaborative, fun group of engineers looking for someone like you to become part of our team. Our user facing projects are diverse, interesting, and innovative. Our work is impactful; we help people improve their lives through learning. We leverage the latest
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Udemy Platform is looking for new teammates to join our team. As a Platform and Services Engineer at Udemy, you will be responsible for a variety of software development projects, including developing APIs and micro-services infrastructure for our apps, and finding innovative ways to handle our scalability challenges. You will build and integrate scalable backend systems, platforms, and tools which will help us achieve our mission
Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area.
Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems.
Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture.
Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems.
Iterate and improve our recommendation, personalization, query understanding and ranking algorithms which have applications in several product areas like search, autocomplete and email/push communications.
Implement and deploy machine learning models to production systems.
Develop technologies to solve complex data problems, such as web and mobile scale data integration and data generation pipelines to collect, clean and aggregate data to address complex data problems and integrate them with production systems.
Improve search relevance using text matching algorithms and NLP techniques.
Work collaboratively in a fast-paced startup environment.
Build highly performant APIs that are horizontally scalable.
Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, and teammates across the product and business organizations.
Design and deploy high-performance RESTful web services.
Software Engineer Salary ranges
The most common Software Engineer salary in San Francisco is between $160k - $170k.
Average Software Engineer Salary by Company Size
People with the job title Software Engineer make the most at companies with 1-10 employees, earning $178,667 on average.
Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Software Engineer salary for women is $168,500 and the average Software Engineer salary for men is $166,667.
Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $175,000.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in San Francisco
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Software Engineer | $93,000 | Min: $93K Max: $93K |
| QA Analyst | $109,485 | Min: $96K Max: $153K |
| Automation Engineer | $118,633 | Min: $105K Max: $148K |
| Salesforce Developer | $119,371 | Min: $100K Max: $175K |
| Android Developer | $121,893 | Min: $92K Max: $178K |
| QA Engineer | $126,419 | Min: $120K Max: $136K |
| Software Test Engineer | $128,100 | Min: $118K Max: $150K |
| Front End Developer | $135,829 | Min: $120K Max: $164K |
| iOS Developer | $140,324 | Min: $108K Max: $183K |
| Game Developer | $142,000 | Min: $142K Max: $142K |
| Data Engineer | $143,122 | Min: $131K Max: $166K |
| Systems Engineer | $144,000 | Min: $144K Max: $144K |
| Hardware Engineer | $145,000 | Min: $145K Max: $145K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $147,000 | Min: $147K Max: $147K |
| Database Administrator | $151,000 | Min: $151K Max: $151K |
| Sales Engineer | $151,941 | Min: $110K Max: $173K |
| Security Engineer | $153,000 | Min: $128K Max: $189K |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $153,000 | Min: $153K Max: $153K |
| QA Manager | $154,125 | Min: $143K Max: $174K |
| Data Architect | $161,688 | Min: $146K Max: $184K |
| Software Engineer | $172,171 | Min: $150K Max: $204K |
| DevOps Engineer | $174,065 | Min: $130K Max: $194K |
| Lead Software Engineer | $182,667 | Min: $170K Max: $193K |
| Data Engineering Manager | $196,000 | Min: $196K Max: $196K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $196,677 | Min: $170K Max: $213K |
| Engineering Manager | $200,897 | Min: $160K Max: $226K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $204,966 | Min: $193K Max: $221K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $210,276 | Min: $190K Max: $238K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $236,667 | Min: $150K Max: $292K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $284,607 | Min: $216K Max: $380K |
Recent Software Engineer salaries in San Francisco
$175,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $175,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Female
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$150,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $150,000 with +$5,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$175,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $175,000 with +$7,200 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$162,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $162,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Female
51-200 Employees
San Francisco
$175,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $175,000 with +$8,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$168,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $168,000
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$164,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $164,000
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$185,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $185,000
51-200 Employees
San Francisco
$162,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $162,000
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
$184,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $184,000
51-200 Employees
San Francisco
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