What are some companies with high paying low-level software roles? I feel like there are a ton of platform, backend, and SRE teams that pay outrageous salaries, but I very rarely see hardware or computer engineering roles reporting $300k+ TC. Are there just less of those roles? Obviously Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have those kind of roles, but does Netflix? Does Airbnb? Seems like SaaS wouldn't have a use for someone like that. Not looking to jump but just curious TC $170k YOE 4
IC4 at apple is 288k
Nope. I have seen offers as high as 500k
Work at a software company that creates hardware. That’s the key. Apple is the exception, but they’re really a fashion/design company in disguise.
“Hardware” encompasses a lot. Literally every FAANG has some hardware product, although Reed Hasitings has actively killed most of the things Netflix has built. AMD, nvidia, and intel are also known to drop top dollar from time to time.
There are many. Apple, Amazon, NVIDIA, Google, Meta, Broadcom are the best for TC. Qualcomm / nuvia, Intel, AMD can also pay top dollar for certain roles.
Airbnb does pay very well
What computer engineering does Airbnb do?
I think hardware is simply less scalable. I personally try to avoid working with hardware at all costs.
How do you “avoid” working for hardware? Is your major in hardware/software?
I studied CS, not CE. I was just trying to suggest why fewer high paying CE jobs exist.