Posted salary ranges · updated 2026-09-29

Backend Software Engineer salary at AI companies, 2026

27 open Backend Software Engineer roles at 5 AI companies publish a base-salary range. The median posted range is $160k to $220k; the 90th percentile of posted maximums is $445k. From the companies' own postings, refreshed every 6 hours.

Every one of the 9,201 posted ranges at 215 AI companies, as a spreadsheet-ready CSV: the AI Salary Report, US$29 once. Tables by company, by role title, by function and level, by region and by currency, and the 100 highest ranges. Refreshed four times a day for 12 months from purchase. See 20 sample rows first. Your company or role missing? Reply to the receipt and it is refunded. One payment in US dollars, nothing renews; sold by 2542038 Alberta Ltd., trading as AI Hiring Index.

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By company

The companies posting this role most often first.

Company	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Palantir	8	$135k	$200k	$168k	$200k
OpenAI	5	$266k	$445k	$356k	$445k
Databricks	2	$178k	$243k	$211k	$261k
LangChain	2	$178k	$240k	$209k	$240k
Tennr	2	$178k	$202k	$190k	$215k

2 more companies posting Backend Software Engineer ranges, with medians by level, in the AI Salary Report, US$29 once.

By level

Level	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Staff+	2	$178k	$243k	$211k	$261k
Senior	8	$172k	$222k	$196k	$240k
Unspecified	17	$142k	$200k	$175k	$445k

By region

Region	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
US	26	$162k	$218k	$189k	$445k

Highest posted Backend Software Engineer ranges

One row per company.

Company	Role	Range	Location
OpenAI	Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation	$347k to $445k	San Francisco
Outset	Backend Software Engineer	$160k to $300k	San Francisco
Databricks	Staff Backend Software Engineer	$190k to $261k	New York

Titles are normalised (seniority words and team suffixes removed) so postings for the same role group together. All functions and companies.