Staff Software Engineer jobs in the USA

1,134 open Staff Software Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 293 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 356 companies. Numbers from the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads, updated November 2026.

1,134open jobs
244,000 USD median posted pay a year
55%of ads show pay
36%remote

Pay

Half of the 624 ads that posted pay offer between 224,000 USD and 272,000 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 244,000 USD.

55% 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. Databricks 43 open
  2. ServiceNow 42 open
  3. Gusto 26 open
  4. Anduril Industries 24 open
  5. Anduril 24 open
  6. Harvey 22 open
  7. Shield AI 17 open
  8. Zoox 17 open
  9. Coinbase 17 open
  10. Crusoe 17 open

Skills the ads ask for

System designPythonAI coding assistantsObservabilityAWSTypeScriptAI agentsReactArchitectureLLMsCI/CDDocker

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Staff Software Engineer jobs elsewhere

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