Senior Software Engineer salary in Remote (US) (2026)
Based on 141 live listings on iRocket right now, Senior Software Engineers in Remote (US) are offered a median of $170k, typically $160k–$195k. These are real open offers on our board, not self-reported survey data.
Across 141 live Senior Software Engineer listings in Remote (US) on the iRocket board right now, the median offer is $170k a year. The middle of the market — 25th to 75th percentile — runs $160k–$195k, and the full spread across those 141 listings is $93k–$368k.
- $170k
- median offer, Senior Software Engineer in Remote (US)
- $160k–$195k
- typical range (25th–75th percentile)
- 141
- live listings behind this number
141 live listings
iRocket board
real open offers, not surveys
The listings behind the number
Every figure above comes from these open roles — each with its own posted salary, linking straight to the listing on the board. No modeling, no survey blend: this is what employers are offering for Senior Software Engineers in Remote (US) this week.
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Inference & Training Platform) · Perplexity — $250k–$485k
- Principal Software Engineer - Revenue Hub · HubSpot — $266k–$426k
- Account Executive - Splunk - SLED (LA & AR) · Cisco — $198k–$334k
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agent Development · ServiceNow — $191k–$334k
- Senior Software Engineer, Ledgering · Block — $185k–$327k
- Senior Software Engineer, Ledgering · Block — $185k–$327k
- Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise Foundations · Instacart — $221k–$280k
- Staff Software Engineer, Compute (Temporal Cloud) · Temporal Technologies — $212k–$286k
- Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media · Twilio — $207k–$274k
- Software Engineer, Data Foundations · Whatnot — $200k–$275k
- Senior Engineering Manager, Servicing · Upstart — $195k–$270k
- Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability · Upstart — $195k–$270k
The number is a straight aggregation over live listings on the iRocket board — median and percentiles of each role's posted pay band, computed in SQL-style over the data, with no model in the loop. Every listing on iRocket is required to show pay, so the corpus is real offers, not self-reported estimates. The sample size is shown on purpose: when it is small, so is our confidence — and we say so.
Why live offers beat survey data
Most salary sites average what people say they earn, months or years after the fact. This page averages what employers are offering right now, on roles you can actually apply to today. That is the whole point: the number and the jobs are the same dataset. When the board changes, this page changes with it.
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