150+ Staff Software Engineer Jobs in California

182 open Staff Software Engineer roles from 95 employers in California, posted in the last 30 days. Updated November 3, 2026.

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Newest Staff Software Engineer openings in California

  1. Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Sonnenalp Properties, Inc. · Mountain View, California, United States
    $156K to $255K a year
    Posted today
  2. Staff Software Engineer, Persistent Disk Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted today
  3. Staff Software Engineer, Google Local Services Ads Platform Google Inc · Mountain View, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted today
  4. Staff Software Engineer - Agentic Automation NVIDIA Corporation · Santa Clara, California, United States
    $168K to $270K a year
    Posted yesterday
  5. Staff Software Engineer ML Platform (6244) Shield · San Diego, California, United States
    $200K to $300K a year
    Posted yesterday
  6. Staff Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  7. Staff Software Engineer, EW Telemetry Today LLC · Costa Mesa, California, United States
    $220K to $292K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  8. Sr Staff Software Engineer (Layer 7 Security & Proxy) Towards AI, Inc. · Santa Clara, California, United States
    $180K to $225K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  9. Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, Google Cloud Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  10. Staff Software Development Engineer – Wallet - Authentication ID.me, Inc. · Mountain View, California, United States
    $194K to $253K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  11. Staff Software Engineer, CAPE DCYB · San Francisco, California, United States
    $209K to $253K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  12. Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Shorts Creation Data, Metrics and Compute Google Inc · Mountain View, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  13. Staff Software Engineer, Traffic DoorDash, Inc. · San Francisco, California, United States
    $194K to $285K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  14. Staff Software Engineer, Customer Services Edge, Google Global Infrastructure Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  15. Staff Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Equinix · Redwood City, California, United States
    $121K to $218K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  16. Staff Back End Engineer, Data Altruist · Los Angeles, California, United States
    $181K to $265K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  17. Staff Back End Engineer, Data Altruist · San Francisco, California, United States
    $203K to $275K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  18. Staff Software Engineer – Testing & Evals Frameworks New McLean, Virginia; Mountain View, California, United States ID.me, Inc. · McLean, Virginia, United States or Mountain View, California, United States
    $174K to $253K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  19. Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Business Platforms Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  20. Staff Software Engineer, Medical Imaging Mural · Burlingame, California, United States
    $190K to $280K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  21. Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure PySpark · San Francisco, California, United States
    $197K to $314K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  22. Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management Brex San Francisco, California, United States $240–300K Engineering 1d ago check more → Neobankbeat · San Francisco, California, United States
    $240K to $300K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  23. Staff Software Engineer - Platform Security ServiceNow · San Diego, California, United States
    $150K to $262K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  24. Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Network Product Ordering Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  25. Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning Kodiak · Mountain View, California, United States
    $185K to $245K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  26. Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, Google Cloud Business Platform Google Inc · Sunnyvale, California, United States
    $207K to $300K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  27. Sr Staff Software Engineer San Jose, California, United States of America + 1 more Software Engineering Venmo, LLC · San Jose, California, United States
    $196K to $292K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  28. Staff Software Engineer, Frontend/Web App Beacon AI Inc · San Carlos, California, United States
    $224K to $260K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  29. Staff Software Engineer, Backend Match Group · Palo Alto, California, United States
    $235K to $255K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  30. Staff Software Engineer, Visits Hinge Health · San Francisco, California, United States
    $192K to $264K a year
    Posted 7 days ago

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What these postings look like

Across the 169 postings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $203,000 at the 25th percentile, $230,950 at the median and $253,500 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

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Who is hiring

  1. Google Inc: 28 roles
  2. Hercules: 8 roles
  3. Hercules Preview: 8 roles
  4. Uinspyr: 6 roles
  5. QUALCOMM, Inc.: 4 roles
  6. Riot Games, Inc.: 4 roles
  7. ServiceNow: 4 roles
  8. Telemetry Today LLC: 4 roles
  9. DoorDash, Inc.: 3 roles
  10. GM: 3 roles

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