$185,000–$300,000
Production code FDE salary
2,554 postings · 1,164 companies · 1,900 with pay · median $196,000 · middle half $163,000–$226,000 · read
These postings against the US
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
By responsibility level
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
Junior
$117K$157K21 postingsMid
$125K$165K70 postingsSenior
$162K$222K1,465 postingsStaff+
$198K$262K325 postings$140,000–$220,000
$130,000–$215,000
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$207,000–$300,000
$185,000–$300,000
$133,400–$226,800
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$180,000–$250,000
$185,000–$300,000
$210,000–$270,000
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
$136,948–$167,380
1,263 of these 1,900 jobs build what the customer runs.
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Production code means the posting's main coding work is software intended to run in production, as opposed to prototypes, scripts or configuration. It says nothing about how many hours are spent coding.
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