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Software & Data in Seattle Salaries

Live posted base-salary benchmarks for software & data roles in Seattle.

432 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$221k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$193k–$265k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

432

79% of 544 live openings

Companies disclosing

49

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$850k
2
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$850k
3
Performance Engineer, GPU

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$280k–$850k
4
TPU Kernel Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$280k–$850k
5
Performance Engineer

Anthropic · New York, NY · Senior

$280k–$850k
6
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Staff / Principal

$405k–$625k
7
Staff Software Engineer, Code RL

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Staff / Principal

$405k–$625k
8
Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Staff / Principal

$320k–$625k
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Methodology

BuildList pulls salary ranges from company applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Non-USD pay is converted to USD, and hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Figures are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by currently open roles.

Base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded. Groups with fewer than 30 salaried openings are withheld.

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