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Typically 0-2 years of experience.
New-grads or little to no industry experience. Develop and maintain low to moderately complex components working on a team. Typically receives guidance and support from more experienced team members.
Typically 2-5+ years of experience.
Develop and own moderate to complex components. Possibly lead a small team or project. Ability to mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, code reviews, design and deliver on small projects end-to-end. Impact is typically at the immediate team scope. At many companies, this is considered a 'career-level', as in you can spend the rest of your career operating at this level without being pushed out for not being promoted.
Typically 5+ years of experience.
Typically less than 30% of employees in a company are at this level. Expected to lead and own complex technical initiatives. Begin setting the vision and future direction of team. Impact across multiple related teams within an org. Role shifts more towards design rather than implementation depending on size and expectations at company.
Typically 10+ years of experience.
This level is much more coveted than the previous ones. Typically less than 10% of employees in a company are at this level. Impact spans across organizations. Entrusted with business-critical projects and for setting technical vision for an org or multiple orgs. Responsible for reviewing and providing feedback on technical designs across an org. Little to no day-to-day coding. Role depends highly on organizational and company needs and becomes loosely defined. Expected to operate fully autonomously.
Typically 15+ years of experience.
Usually less than 3% of employees in a company are at this level. Smaller companies may not have any individuals at this level. Impact spans across the company and sometimes industry. Expected to operate fully autonomously.
1st
Isomorphic Labs
Isomorphic Labs
$418,187
2nd
Wintermute
Wintermute
$385,735
3rd
Citadel
Citadel
$373,120
RankCompanyTitle
Total Comp
Base | Stock | Bonus
1 Isomorphic LabsL5
$418,187
222K | 141K | N/A
2 Wintermute1
$385,735
137K | 0 | N/A
3 Citadel levels.fyi/leaderboardL3
$373,120
234K | 0 | N/A
4 ShareChatStaff Software Engineer
$333,827
184K | 150K | N/A
5 Jane StreetL1
$326,725
229K | 0 | N/A
6 Hudson River Trading levels.fyi/leaderboardNew Grad
$319,740
228K | 0 | N/A
7 Jump TradingL3
$303,250
196K | 0 | N/A
8 xAIL3
$302,287
269K | 34K | N/A
9 Meta levels.fyi/leaderboardE5
$293,666
160K | 133K | N/A
10 WorldQuantL5
$287,045
196K | 0 | N/A
11 MSCIExecutive Director
$283,967
208K | 38K | N/A
12 Reddit levels.fyi/leaderboardIC4
$281,520
214K | 67K | N/A
13 CrowdStrikeSenior Engineer I
$276,486
162K | 95K | N/A
14 Balyasny Asset Management L.P.Software Engineer
$273,572
205K | 0 | N/A
15 Two Sigma levels.fyi/leaderboardL3
$271,501
163K | 0 | N/A
16 CanvaB4
$271,193
187K | 84K | N/A
17 Allspring Global InvestmentsP3
$267,848
225K | 0 | N/A
18 Scale AI levels.fyi/leaderboardL4
$267,728
206K | 62K | N/A
19 Tower Research CapitalL1
$253,887
185K | 0 | N/A
20 SnapL4
$252,963
139K | 114K | N/A
21 Circle levels.fyi/leaderboardP3
$251,156
156K | 78K | N/A
22 G-ResearchL1
$250,746
134K | 0 | N/A
23 XTX MarketsL3
$250,000
150K | 0 | N/A
24 UiPath levels.fyi/leaderboardSenior Software Engineer
$248,091
146K | 102K | 17
25 AppleICT4
$245,179
165K | 68K | N/A
26 AmazonSDE II
$239,920
149K | 91K | N/A
27 Akamai levels.fyi/leaderboardPrincipal Software Engineer
$236,244
153K | 53K | N/A
28 EgenCL7
$235,126
207K | 0 | N/A
29 Santander UKPrincipal AI Engineer
$233,692
177K | 0 | N/A
30 DRW levels.fyi/leaderboardL2
$231,242
155K | 0 | N/A
31 Chainlink LabsSenior
$230,691
158K | 73K | N/A
32 DatadogSenior Software Engineer
$230,194
144K | 86K | N/A
33 Cohere levels.fyi/leaderboardL3
$229,893
176K | 54K | N/A
34 RipplingL6
$227,667
169K | 59K | N/A
35 FastlyE5
$227,287
180K | 20K | N/A
36 Niantic levels.fyi/leaderboardL3
$226,704
114K | 95K | N/A
37 LaceworkIC7
$224,784
225K | 0 | N/A
38 BloombergSenior Software Engineer
$224,749
185K | 0 | N/A
39 Confluent levels.fyi/leaderboardL4
$224,254
149K | 60K | N/A
40 ShopifyL6
$222,233
189K | 34K | N/A
41 The Trade DeskSenior Software Engineer
$221,627
168K | 54K | N/A
42 poolside levels.fyi/leaderboardL3
$220,415
203K | 17K | N/A
43 Aspect Capital3
$220,295
167K | 0 | N/A
44 GSA Capital
$219,353
148K | 0 | N/A
45 Millennium levels.fyi/leaderboardSoftware Engineer
$217,433
154K | 0 | N/A
46 HashiCorpL3
$214,639
163K | 51K | N/A
47 TeleportL4
$214,218
214K | 0 | N/A
48 Partners Capital levels.fyi/leaderboardPrincipal Engineer
$213,680
160K | 0 | N/A
49 SnykStaff Software Engineer
$211,468
211K | 0 | N/A
50 DuckDuckGoStaff Software Engineer
$211,250
198K | 3.3K | N/A
Last Updated: June 3, 2026
How is this table calculated?

We aggregate our submissions from the last two years to calculate the data.

For 'All Levels', we compute the median entry across all submissions for a particular company, location and job role.

For Software Engineers, we support a standardized framework based around company leveling data. We compute the median entry for a particular company, location, standard level and job role.