Distribución lado a lado
Staff Engineer
$220,063
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 54.2%
- Puestos activos
- 4,821
Tech Lead
$185,000
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 34.3%
- Puestos activos
- 2,594
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Staff Backend Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)
Senior Staff React Native Engineer ($500k - 1.5m salary)
Senior Staff Frontend Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)
Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI
Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI
Research Engineer (Senior Staff+), Safeguards Labs
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Business Development Lead - Retail Tech & Software Services
Lead Software Engineer (Backend)
Customer Engineering Lead
Technical Lead, Safety Research
Lead Security Engineer
Data Engineering Lead
RISC-V AI / HPC & Agentic Software Engineering Lead
Staff Engineer, Emulation Technical Lead
Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety
Lead Machine Learning Inference Engineer, Advertising
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 111 |
Databricks
|
$226,000 | 77 |
|
Anthropic
|
$405,000 | 57 |
Crusoe
|
$231,000 | 45 |
Grafana Labs
|
$147,923 | 45 |
Aurora Innovation
|
$231,500 | 40 |
Archer
|
$192,500 | 37 |
Okta
|
$206,000 | 34 |
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
|
Anduril Industries
|
$170,000 | 33 |
STR
|
$198,250 | 26 |
Motional
|
$237,500 | 21 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$197,750 | 21 |
Fluidstack
|
$275,000 | 19 |
Scout Motors
|
$176,250 | 16 |
Relativity Space
|
$170,000 | 15 |
|
OpenAI
|
$338,750 | 14 |
Salario de Staff Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | $257,300 | 5 |
| Seattle | $250,000 | 154 |
| San Francisco | $245,000 | 625 |
| New York | $239,700 | 466 |
| Austin | $228,750 | 52 |
| Chicago | $227,250 | 44 |
| Los Angeles | $221,000 | 64 |
| Denver | $210,500 | 47 |
| Boston | $210,000 | 97 |
| London | $206,683 | 47 |
Salario de Tech Lead por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| Austin | $266,500 | 24 |
| San Francisco | $238,500 | 141 |
| Seattle | $234,225 | 34 |
| New York | $222,000 | 100 |
| Boston | $212,500 | 51 |
| Atlanta | $190,000 | 13 |
| Denver | $183,500 | 15 |
| Los Angeles | $175,000 | 19 |
| Toronto | $167,673 | 24 |
| Chicago | $166,000 | 26 |
Staff Engineer vs Tech Lead: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de Staff Engineer es de $220,063 por año (normalmente $188,813–$250,000), frente a $185,000 de Tech Lead ($152,500–$223,683). Eso pone a Staff Engineer alrededor de un 19% por delante en la mediana.
Ambas cifras se calculan en vivo a partir de ofertas activas en JobsRadar y se normalizan a USD anualizado, de modo que Staff Engineer y Tech Lead se comparan en igualdad de condiciones independientemente de la moneda en la que se publicó originalmente cada puesto. Solo los puestos que publican un rango salarial alimentan las medianas; las cifras se actualizan cada pocas horas a medida que se publican nuevos puestos y se cierran los antiguos, así que esta comparación refleja el mercado actual y no una encuesta fija. Úsala como referencia orientativa al sopesar un camino frente a otro.