Engineering roles

Curated directory of software engineering roles. Browse for salary anchors, signature skills, and the companies hiring for each.

Updated Aug 1, 2026

• Analytics Engineer

  Owns the modeled data layer (dbt).

  p50 anchor — $165,000

• Applied AI Engineer

  Builds product features powered by LLMs.

  p50 anchor — $210,000

• Backend Engineer

  Builds APIs, services, and data layers. Solid SQL.

  p50 anchor — $150,000

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

  Owns cloud architecture across AWS / GCP / Azure.

  p50 anchor — $210,000

• Data Engineer

  Builds and operates data pipelines.

  p50 anchor — $155,000

• DevOps Engineer

  Owns CI/CD, IaC, and operational tooling.

  p50 anchor — $160,000

• Director of Engineering

  Leads multiple teams or an org of ~25-75.

  p50 anchor — $320,000

• Embedded Engineer

  Firmware + hardware-adjacent software.

  p50 anchor — $150,000

• Engineering Manager

  Leads a team of 4-8 engineers.

  p50 anchor — $225,000

• Engineering Manager — Infra/Platform

  Leads an infra or platform team.

  p50 anchor — $240,000

• Frontend Engineer

  Builds and maintains user-facing web interfaces. Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern framework.

  p50 anchor — $145,000

• Full-Stack Engineer

  Ships features end-to-end across frontend and backend.

  p50 anchor — $150,000

• Machine Learning Engineer

  Trains and deploys ML models in production.

  p50 anchor — $185,000

• ML Platform Engineer

  Builds the platform other ML teams ship on.

  p50 anchor — $245,000

• QA Engineer

  Designs and runs test plans.

  p50 anchor — $125,000

• Security Engineer

  Threat modeling, AppSec reviews, secure-by-default tooling.

  p50 anchor — $180,000

• Senior Android Engineer

  Owns Android app surfaces. Deep Kotlin + Jetpack Compose.

  p50 anchor — $195,000

• Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

  Owns backend services in Go.

  p50 anchor — $205,000

• Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

  Owns backend services in Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask).

  p50 anchor — $200,000

• Senior Data Engineer

  Owns warehouse architecture and data quality.

  p50 anchor — $205,000

• Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

  Owns frontend architecture for a product surface. Deep React + TypeScript, performance, accessibility.

  p50 anchor — $195,000

• Senior Full-Stack Engineer

  Owns features end-to-end in small to mid-sized teams.

  p50 anchor — $195,000

• Senior iOS Engineer

  Owns iOS app surfaces. Deep Swift + UIKit/SwiftUI.

  p50 anchor — $200,000

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer

  Owns ML systems end-to-end including production serving.

  p50 anchor — $230,000

• Senior Platform Engineer

  Builds the internal platform other engineers ship on.

  p50 anchor — $220,000

• Senior Security Engineer

  Owns AppSec or CloudSec program.

  p50 anchor — $220,000

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  Owns reliability of production systems.

  p50 anchor — $220,000

• Senior Test Automation Engineer

  Owns end-to-end test automation.

  p50 anchor — $165,000

• Software Engineer

  Generalist software engineer; assignment used when more specific role can not be inferred.

  p50 anchor — $140,000

• Staff Backend Engineer

  Sets backend architecture across services.

  p50 anchor — $265,000

• Staff Frontend Engineer

  Sets frontend technical direction across a team or org.

  p50 anchor — $255,000