Staff Engineer jobs in the USA

286 open Staff Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 82 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 91 companies. Numbers from the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads, updated November 2026.

286open jobs
215,000 USD median posted pay a year
61%of ads show pay
16%remote

Pay

Half of the 174 ads that posted pay offer between 193,000 USD and 245,000 USD a year (the middle of each posted range, as the ad states it: gross pay for employment, before VAT for B2B). The median is 215,000 USD.

61% of the open ads show pay at all. Ads without pay are counted in the totals, not in the range.

How the jobs are set up

Companies hiring most

  1. Shield AI 108 open
  2. Nagarro 25 open
  3. Samsung Semiconductor 21 open
  4. Adyen 8 open
  5. Marvell Semiconductor 5 open
  6. MongoDB 4 open
  7. Illumio 4 open
  8. Raft Company Website 4 open
  9. Carrier 3 open
  10. DDN 3 open

Skills the ads ask for

System designObservabilityPythonAWSArchitecturePeople managementRoadmapsKubernetesLinuxCI/CDAI coding assistantsMachine learning

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