$185,000–$300,000
Senior FDE salary in the San Francisco Bay Area
739 postings · 406 companies · 564 with pay · median $210,000 · middle half $177,000–$241,000 · read
These postings against the US
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
$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
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · Frisco, TX · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$180,000–$250,000
$185,000–$300,000
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$174,000–$252,000
$150,000–$200,000
$180,000–$220,000
$195,000–$225,000
$207,000–$300,000
337 of these 564 jobs build what the customer runs.
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This group is the intersection of the Bay Area and senior responsibility as the posting describes it, not a blend of the two separate medians. A posting can name San Francisco, San Jose or Santa Clara.
Employer postings · Calculated from posted salary amounts · How we read postings