Software Engineer salary in San Francisco
Average Base Salary in San Francisco
$169,900
$8,040
Additional Cash Compensation
$177,940
Total Compensation
Median: $170K
Min: $130K
Max: $204K
How Much Does a Software Engineer Make in San Francisco?
The average salary for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $169,900. The average additional cash compensation for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $8,040. The average total compensation for a Software Engineer in San Francisco is $177,940. 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
As a Software Engineer you will play a central role in building a quality digital closing platform that our partners can trust and use. We build high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical business systems that enable our users to streamline workflows. You will design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and distributed systems. In addition to contributing to core services, you will contribute to debugging production issues across services, participate in code reviews and arch specs. Your day to day interactions span product and engineering teams to release at a high velocity in all phases of the SDLC. We have a small team so your contributions will have huge impact.
Software Engineer
Who is Mindstrong?
Mindstrong is a research-driven, consumer-focused mental healthcare company working to unlock a new virtual care model for delivering healthcare to people living with a serious mental illness (SMI) through innovations in measurement science, and care delivery. Our services are offered to people with an SMI through active partnerships with several nationwide health insurance payers.
As a Series C company, we have a blend of
Blend is looking for talented software engineers to join our diverse and fast-growing engineering team. As a software engineer, you’ll work throughout the stack, from large-scale data processing to web UI. Specifically, you will be responsible for building new features and functionality enabling our company to deliver critical software to major mortgage lenders. If you are a developer with a deep understanding of CS fundamentals and are excited by a dynamic, collaborative work environment, we want to hear from you!
It’s our mission to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We believe DNA will be digitally accessible to each person so that it can be used—at any time—to improve health outcomes and accelerate research.
Helix powers life-changing population health programs. Our world-class clinical laboratory platform and proprietary Exome+ assay enable health systems to integrate genomic information into routine clinical care and enhance the
Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.
Push the limits of mobile devices and create great user experiences.
Build smooth, stable, and fun products.
Develop features from design through implementation and launch.
Evaluate technical tradeoffs of every decision and work with design on the best UI and infrastructure practices.
Perform code reviews that guarantee code quality.
Use Kotlin, Java, RxJava, Dagger, and other great tools to build smooth, stable, and fun products.
Own features from design through implementation and launch.
Udemy Engineering is responsible for building the core technologies, features, and capabilities that enable learners and instructors around the world. We enable students to acquire new knowledge and we build tools to attract top instructors to teach on Udemy. We are looking for top computer science/engineering students who are passionate about the latest techniques and technologies for developing highly scalable, consumer-grade web experiences. If you are a self-starter and someone who is excited to join us and learn how we build our platforms and features, we are interested in talking to you!
Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're bringing on accomplished engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.
At DoorDash, our software engineers work on everything from backend systems to beautiful and thoughtful user interfaces, to scaling products that will
Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, and machine learning engineers to develop pipelines and ETL tasks in order to facilitate the extraction of insights from data.
Build, maintain, and scale data pipelines that empower Doximity’s products.
Establish data architecture processes and practices that can be scheduled, automated, replicated and serve as standards for other teams to leverage.
Spearhead, plan, and carry out the implementation of solutions while self-managing.
Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering
Who is Mindstrong?
Mindstrong is a research-driven, consumer-focused mental healthcare company creating a new virtual care model for delivering healthcare to people living with a serious mental illness (SMI) through innovations in measurement science, and care delivery. Our services are offered to people with an SMI through active partnerships with several nationwide health insurance payers.
As a Series C company, we have a blend of science,
The challenges we face are highly technical and highly impactful for other engineering teams in the company! We are looking for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems design, performance optimization, software architecture and scalability. You are a strong collaborator who is willing to work with feature development teams to understand their needs from the platform, to design solutions that fulfill their immediate needs but that also establish good patterns for the long-term scalability and maintainability of the application.
Participate in the rapid evolution of Chime, using an agile performance engineering methodology.
Apply the latest tools, techniques and research insights to drive improvements into the core financial products.
Work on a disruptive product that’s already generating substantial revenue but also growing rapidly.
Solve challenging problems that will continue to further Financial services in the cloud.
Build a product that will leverage the scale of unlimited resources available in the cloud.
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 11-50 employees, earning $177,500 on average.
Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Software Engineer salary for women is $155,667 and the average Software Engineer salary for men is $165,833.
Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $171,250.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in San Francisco
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Software Engineer | $93,000 | Min: $93K Max: $93K |
| QA Analyst | $109,928 | Min: $96K Max: $153K |
| Automation Engineer | $119,645 | Min: $105K Max: $150K |
| Salesforce Developer | $119,944 | Min: $100K Max: $175K |
| Android Developer | $122,207 | Min: $92K Max: $178K |
| QA Engineer | $126,438 | Min: $120K Max: $136K |
| Software Test Engineer | $129,219 | Min: $118K Max: $150K |
| Front End Developer | $136,500 | Min: $120K Max: $164K |
| iOS Developer | $141,941 | Min: $108K Max: $183K |
| Game Developer | $143,000 | Min: $142K Max: $144K |
| Data Engineer | $145,038 | Min: $131K Max: $185K |
| Hardware Engineer | $147,925 | Min: $115K Max: $190K |
| Sales Engineer | $150,537 | Min: $110K Max: $173K |
| Security Engineer | $153,400 | Min: $128K Max: $189K |
| QA Manager | $154,152 | Min: $143K Max: $174K |
| Database Administrator | $163,000 | Min: $151K Max: $175K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $163,400 | Min: $130K Max: $210K |
| Systems Engineer | $164,500 | Min: $144K Max: $185K |
| Data Architect | $164,574 | Min: $146K Max: $225K |
| Software Engineer | $169,900 | Min: $130K Max: $204K |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $171,500 | Min: $153K Max: $190K |
| DevOps Engineer | $174,065 | Min: $130K Max: $194K |
| Lead Software Engineer | $185,750 | Min: $170K Max: $195K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $193,026 | Min: $152K Max: $218K |
| Engineering Manager | $204,879 | Min: $160K Max: $250K |
| Data Engineering Manager | $205,250 | Min: $180K Max: $230K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $206,774 | Min: $193K Max: $250K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $213,594 | Min: $190K Max: $275K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $233,958 | Min: $150K Max: $292K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $287,469 | Min: $216K Max: $380K |
Skills that affect Software Engineer salaries in San Francisco
1
Amazon Web Services
17% have this skill
2
Java
17% have this skill
3
Python
11% have this skill
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Scala
11% have this skill
5
SQL
6% have this skill
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DevOps
6% have this skill
Recent Software Engineer salaries in San Francisco
$185,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $185,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
San Francisco
$160,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $160,000 with +$5,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
1-10 Employees
San Francisco
1-5 Reports
$145,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $145,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
51-200 Employees
San Francisco
$130,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $130,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Female
51-200 Employees
San Francisco
$150,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $150,000 with +$15,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
San Francisco
1-5 Reports
$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
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