Posts tagged Software Engineer.
Research Scientist ($215K) and ML Engineer ($209K) top the senior rung. But the gap to a plain software engineer is $16K, while the gap between a mid and a staff engineer doing the same job is $65K.
We mapped advertised software-engineer pay against how much each company is actually growing or shrinking — using live job postings and workforce-flow data. Pay turns out to tell you almost nothing about where a company is headed.
A viral Levels.fyi post says the median PM out-earns the median engineer. Across the open job market, that gap is a spam artifact plus a composition effect — match them rung-for-rung and the engineer wins every level.
A popular framing says Product Engineer sits at the intersection of Product Manager and Software Engineer. We measured the overlap across 35,067 job postings. There is no fat intersection region. Product Engineer is a modern-stack SWE archetype.
