Staff Software Engineer salaries in San Francisco, CA, United States

Average salary

$368.6–495K/ year

25th percentile

$320K

75th percentile

$485K

Based on

14 jobs

Salary by seniority

Level	Average	Board baseline	vs. board
Senior	$368.6–495K	—	—

Other locations

United States

16 jobs

$367.8–493.8K

California, United States

14 jobs

$368.6–495K

England, United Kingdom

3 jobs

$429.9–599.6K

London, ENG, United Kingdom

3 jobs

$429.9–599.6K

United Kingdom

3 jobs

$429.9–599.6K

Top skills

Python

99 jobs

$330.5–465.2K

Large Language Models

50 jobs

$325.6–502.6K

Distributed Systems

46 jobs

$376.3–594.2K

Stakeholder Management

40 jobs

$288.8–360.8K

SQL

40 jobs

$272.8–353.4K

AI/ML Products

39 jobs

$338.1–519.9K

Related titles

Software Engineer

44 jobs

$358.3–495.8K

Platform Engineer

33 jobs

$382.3–516.4K

Infrastructure Engineer

27 jobs

$352.8–535.4K

Research Engineer

26 jobs

$378.1–646.9K

Technical Program Manager

21 jobs

$336–436.4K

Backend Engineer

20 jobs

$371.5–495.3K