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Compensation ranges at 63 dev tool companies. Base salary, total comp (base + equity + bonus), remote policy.

63
Companies
144
Roles tracked
41
Fully remote

OpenAI

AI / LLM · San Francisco, CA · 3000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.5
Software Engineer(Mid (L3))
Base: $200k-$260k
Total: $300k-$500k
Software Engineer(Senior (L4))
Base: $260k-$340k
Total: $450k-$750k
Staff Engineer(Staff (L5))
Base: $340k-$400k
Total: $600k-$1000k

Top-of-market TC. PPU (profit participation units) are speculative but potentially massive. Intense pace, high burnout.

Anthropic

AI / LLM · San Francisco, CA · 1500+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $190k-$250k
Total: $280k-$450k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $250k-$320k
Total: $400k-$650k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $310k-$380k
Total: $550k-$900k

Competitive with OpenAI TC. Safety-focused culture. Equity in fast-growing AI company. Hybrid SF.

Cursor (Anysphere)

AI Developer Tools · San Francisco, CA · 50-100 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $200k-$260k
Total: $300k-$500k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $260k-$330k
Total: $450k-$750k

Top-of-market TC, competitive with OpenAI. Rapidly growing AI coding tool. Hybrid SF. Equity in a company with explosive growth trajectory.

Scale AI

AI / ML · San Francisco, CA · 1000-1500 employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.6
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $180k-$230k
Total: $240k-$380k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $230k-$290k
Total: $340k-$530k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $290k-$360k
Total: $460k-$720k

AI data labeling + government contracts. Top-tier TC. Hybrid SF. Intense pace, mixed culture reviews. Equity at high valuation post-Meta investment (2024).

Perplexity

AI / Search · San Francisco, CA · 100-200 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $200k-$260k
Total: $290k-$480k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $260k-$330k
Total: $430k-$720k

AI search engine. Top-of-market TC competitive with OpenAI/Cursor. Hybrid SF. Fast-growing, well-funded. Equity upside meaningful at current valuation.

Discord

Communications · San Francisco, CA · 1000-1500 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(L4)
Base: $175k-$220k
Total: $230k-$360k
Software Engineer(Senior (L5))
Base: $220k-$275k
Total: $320k-$490k
Staff Engineer(Staff (L6))
Base: $270k-$325k
Total: $430k-$660k

Top-of-market TC. Heavy RSU grants at high private valuation. Hybrid SF. Elixir, Rust, and React expertise valued. High craft engineering culture.

Figma

Design Tools · San Francisco, CA · 1500+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid (E4))
Base: $170k-$215k
Total: $230k-$340k
Software Engineer(Senior (E5))
Base: $215k-$270k
Total: $320k-$480k
Staff Engineer(Staff (E6))
Base: $260k-$310k
Total: $420k-$620k

Top-tier TC post-Adobe deal collapse. Heavy RSU grants. Hybrid SF/NYC/London. Strong design + eng culture.

Stripe

Payments · San Francisco, CA · 8000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.9
Software Engineer(Mid (L2))
Base: $170k-$210k
Total: $220k-$320k
Software Engineer(Senior (L3))
Base: $210k-$260k
Total: $300k-$450k
Staff Engineer(Staff (L4))
Base: $260k-$310k
Total: $400k-$600k

Top-tier TC. RSU heavy. Hybrid with 3 days in-office. Very high bar, intense interview process.

Datadog

Monitoring · New York, NY · 5000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.1
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$300k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $200k-$250k
Total: $280k-$420k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $240k-$290k
Total: $360k-$550k

Public company, liquid RSUs. Strong TC. Hybrid NYC/Paris. Performance-driven culture.

GitHub (Microsoft)

Developer Tools · San Francisco, CA · 3000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid (IC3))
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$310k
Software Engineer(Senior (IC4))
Base: $200k-$250k
Total: $280k-$430k
Staff Engineer(Staff (IC5))
Base: $240k-$295k
Total: $360k-$540k

Microsoft RSUs (liquid). Strong TC, especially at senior+. Remote-friendly but hybrid preferred. Copilot product growth driving demand.

MongoDB

Database · New York, NY · 5000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $185k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$240k
Total: $260k-$400k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $230k-$280k
Total: $340k-$520k

Public company with solid RSU vesting. Strong TC at senior+. Hybrid NYC. Large product surface, lots of teams.

Atlassian

Productivity · Sydney, Australia (distributed) · 10000+ employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid (P40))
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $175k-$270k
Software Engineer(Senior (P50))
Base: $185k-$235k
Total: $245k-$380k
Principal Engineer(Principal (P60))
Base: $235k-$285k
Total: $340k-$510k

Public company with liquid RSUs. Team Anywhere policy — fully distributed. TC competitive globally. Layoffs in 2024 lowered morale but compensation stayed strong.

Shopify

E-commerce · Ottawa, Canada (distributed) · 8000+ employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(L4)
Base: $145k-$190k
Total: $180k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior (L5))
Base: $190k-$240k
Total: $250k-$380k
Staff Engineer(Staff (L6))
Base: $230k-$290k
Total: $330k-$510k

Digital by Design — fully remote globally. Strong RSU vesting. Tobi-led culture, intense pace. Compensation banded by global zones rather than city.

Deepgram

AI / Speech · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 200-400 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.1
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$195k
Total: $180k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $195k-$245k
Total: $250k-$380k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $235k-$290k
Total: $330k-$510k

Speech-to-text and voice AI infrastructure. Fully remote. Competitive TC. Strong technical culture with research focus. Series C, well-funded.

Vercel

Deployment · San Francisco, CA · 400-600 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.8
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$190k
Total: $180k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $190k-$240k
Total: $250k-$380k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $230k-$280k
Total: $320k-$500k

Competitive TC, strong equity upside. Remote-first. High pace, startup expectations.

Temporal Technologies

Workflow Orchestration · San Jose, CA · 200-400 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $155k-$195k
Total: $185k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $195k-$245k
Total: $260k-$390k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $235k-$285k
Total: $330k-$500k

Well-funded workflow platform. Strong TC. Go and distributed systems experience prized. Open-source company with enterprise growth engine.

Twilio

Communications · San Francisco, CA · 5000+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.4
Software Engineer(Mid (P2))
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $175k-$260k
Software Engineer(Senior (P3))
Base: $180k-$230k
Total: $240k-$370k
Staff Engineer(Staff (P4))
Base: $220k-$270k
Total: $310k-$470k

Public company, liquid RSUs. TC dropped post-layoffs (2023-24). Cost-cutting mode. Hybrid with remote exceptions.

Grafana Labs

Observability · New York, NY (distributed) · 1000-1500 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $170k-$260k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$235k
Total: $240k-$370k
Staff Engineer(Staff)
Base: $225k-$275k
Total: $310k-$470k

Fully remote, strong open-source culture. Equity at high private valuation. Excellent WLB for observability space.

Hugging Face

AI / ML · New York, NY (distributed) · 300-500 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.6
Machine Learning Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$200k
Total: $200k-$320k
Machine Learning Engineer(Senior)
Base: $200k-$260k
Total: $290k-$460k
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$185k
Total: $175k-$275k

Fully remote. Strong open-source culture. Mid-tier base vs Big AI labs offset by mission and equity. Heavy ML and infra roles command top-of-band pay.

Vapi

AI / Voice · San Francisco, CA · 20-50 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $160k-$210k
Total: $200k-$320k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $210k-$270k
Total: $290k-$460k

Voice AI infrastructure for developers. Hybrid SF. Top-of-market TC for the stage. Y Combinator alum with rapid growth. High equity upside.

Notion

Productivity · San Francisco, CA · 800-1200 employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.9
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $210k-$320k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $200k-$250k
Total: $290k-$430k
Product Designer(Senior)
Base: $180k-$230k
Total: $250k-$380k

Strong equity at high valuation. Hybrid SF. Small eng team relative to product scale. High craft bar.

Warp

Developer Tools · San Francisco, CA · 50-100 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$310k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $200k-$250k
Total: $280k-$430k

AI terminal startup with strong VC backing. Competitive TC. Rust expertise highly valued. Hybrid SF office.

WorkOS

Auth · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $165k-$205k
Total: $200k-$300k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $205k-$250k
Total: $280k-$410k

Enterprise SSO/SCIM infrastructure. Fully remote. Top-of-market base for the stage. Strong technical culture, Michael Grinich-led product vision.

Convex

Backend-as-a-Service · San Francisco, CA · 30-60 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.7
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $155k-$195k
Total: $185k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $195k-$245k
Total: $260k-$390k

Small team with top-tier engineering pedigree (ex-Dropbox). Strong TC for the stage. Hybrid SF. High equity upside if reactive backends take off.

Replicate

AI / ML · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$195k
Total: $180k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $195k-$245k
Total: $260k-$390k

Run open-source ML models in the cloud. Fully remote. Competitive equity in fast-growing AI infra startup. Small team, strong technical bar.

Cloudflare

Edge / CDN · San Francisco, CA · 3500+ employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.7
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$185k
Total: $175k-$260k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$230k
Total: $240k-$380k

Public company stock. Mid-range base, equity makes up the difference. Mission-driven culture.

Linear

Project Management · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 50-100 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.6
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $160k-$195k
Total: $190k-$280k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $195k-$240k
Total: $260k-$380k

Tiny team, premium salaries. Known for exceptional engineering culture and product craft. Highly selective.

Clerk

Auth · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$190k
Total: $180k-$270k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $190k-$240k
Total: $250k-$380k

Fast-growing auth startup. Competitive TC with strong equity upside. Fully remote. Dev-focused team.

Zed Industries

Developer Tools · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 20-40 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$190k
Total: $180k-$270k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $190k-$240k
Total: $250k-$380k

Rust-native code editor startup. Small team, high equity upside. Rust expertise is a hard requirement. Competing directly with VS Code.

Stytch

Auth · San Francisco, CA · 80-150 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$190k
Total: $180k-$270k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $190k-$235k
Total: $250k-$370k

Auth infrastructure startup competing with Clerk and Auth0. Competitive TC. Hybrid SF. B2B enterprise focus with strong growth.

Stytch

Auth · San Francisco, CA · 80-150 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$190k
Total: $180k-$270k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $190k-$235k
Total: $250k-$370k

Auth infrastructure competing with Clerk and Auth0. Competitive TC. Hybrid SF. B2B enterprise focus with strong VC backing and growth trajectory.

Tailscale

Networking · Toronto, ON (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.6
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $175k-$265k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$230k
Total: $240k-$360k

Fully remote, top-rated culture. Go and networking expertise prized. Strong equity in a product with obsessive user love.

HashiCorp

Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA · 2000+ employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.6
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$180k
Total: $175k-$260k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $180k-$225k
Total: $230k-$350k

Acquired by IBM (2024). TC competitive pre-acquisition. Remote-first. License changes stirred controversy.

Sentry

Monitoring · San Francisco, CA · 500-800 employees
HybridGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $165k-$250k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$230k
Total: $230k-$350k

Open-source company. Good TC for the space. Strong engineering culture. Hybrid with flexibility.

Fly.io

Hosting · Chicago, IL (distributed) · 80-150 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.8
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $145k-$185k
Total: $165k-$250k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$230k
Total: $235k-$350k

Fully remote, infrastructure-focused. Competitive TC for the stage. Systems programming talent valued. Small team, high autonomy.

Mux

Video · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $165k-$260k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $180k-$225k
Total: $230k-$350k

Video infrastructure (streaming, encoding, analytics). Fully remote. Competitive TC. Strong engineering culture led by ex-YouTube/Brightcove founders.

PlanetScale

Database · San Francisco, CA · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $150k-$185k
Total: $170k-$250k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $185k-$230k
Total: $230k-$340k

Small team, big equity upside if it pans out. Fully remote. MySQL/Vitess expertise valued.

Neon

Database · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $165k-$250k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $180k-$225k
Total: $230k-$340k

Serverless Postgres startup. Competitive equity, fully remote. Small team, fast pace. Strong Postgres engineering culture.

Render

Hosting · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$175k
Total: $160k-$240k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $175k-$220k
Total: $220k-$330k

Heroku alternative with growing traction. Fully remote. Mid-range base, meaningful equity in growing PaaS market.

Postman

API Tools · San Francisco, CA · 800-1200 employees
HybridGlassdoor 3.7
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $150k-$230k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $170k-$215k
Total: $210k-$320k

Solid TC for API tooling space. Large India eng presence. Equity at ~$5.6B valuation. Hybrid with flexibility.

Resend

Email · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 20-50 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $140k-$175k
Total: $160k-$240k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $175k-$215k
Total: $220k-$320k

Tiny team, significant equity upside. Fully remote. Dev-first culture led by Zeno Rocha. Early stage — high risk, high reward.

Inngest

Background Jobs · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 20-50 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $135k-$170k
Total: $158k-$240k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $170k-$215k
Total: $215k-$320k

Fully remote, highly technical founding team. Equity is the main upside. Developer-led growth with strong traction in the Next.js ecosystem.

Deno Land

Runtime / Hosting · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $155k-$240k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $170k-$215k
Total: $215k-$320k

Rust and TypeScript runtime company. Fully remote. Meaningful equity. Deno 2.0 + Deno Deploy driving commercial growth.

Railway

Hosting · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 20-50 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$165k
Total: $150k-$230k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $165k-$210k
Total: $210k-$310k

Very small team with high ownership and equity. Fully remote. Developer experience obsessed. High risk, high reward for early hires.

Axiom

Logging / Observability · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$165k
Total: $150k-$230k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $165k-$205k
Total: $210k-$310k

Tiny but fast-growing observability startup. Fully remote. Strong technical culture building on ClickHouse internals.

Supabase

Backend-as-a-Service · Singapore (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $150k-$230k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$300k

Fully remote, global team. Equity in growing open-source company. Lower base offset by flexibility and culture.

Netlify

Hosting · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 200-400 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $130k-$165k
Total: $150k-$220k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $165k-$210k
Total: $200k-$300k

Fully remote. Mid-range TC. Equity risk — competitive market, revenue growth has slowed.

PostHog

Analytics · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 50-100 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.8
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $120k-$160k
Total: $140k-$220k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$300k

Fully remote, globally distributed. Transparent salary calculator based on location. Open-source first. Exceptional culture ratings.

Turso (ChiselStrike)

Database · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 20-50 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.1
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $120k-$160k
Total: $145k-$220k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$300k

Small distributed team building edge SQLite. Competitive equity at an early stage. Rust and distributed systems expertise prized.

Highlight.io

Monitoring · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 10-25 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $120k-$160k
Total: $145k-$220k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $160k-$200k
Total: $200k-$300k

Open-source session replay and monitoring. Very small team. High ownership and equity. Go backend, TypeScript frontend. Competing with FullStory and LogRocket.

Uploadthing (Ping Labs)

Storage · San Francisco, CA (distributed) · 5-15 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $110k-$150k
Total: $130k-$210k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $150k-$195k
Total: $190k-$290k

File upload infrastructure for Next.js apps. Tiny team, fully remote. Below-market base offset by significant equity. Theo-led, dev-tools focused.

Liveblocks

Collaboration · London, UK (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $110k-$150k
Total: $135k-$210k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $150k-$195k
Total: $190k-$285k

Real-time collaboration infrastructure. Fully remote. UK HQ means lower base vs US peers. Strong equity in niche with high switching costs.

Prisma

ORM / Database Tooling · Berlin, Germany (distributed) · 100-200 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.8
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $100k-$140k
Total: $120k-$190k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $140k-$185k
Total: $180k-$270k

European HQ, globally distributed. European base pay rates. Equity in widely-used OSS tool with cloud product growing. Rust migration underway.

Trigger.dev

Background Jobs · Dublin, Ireland (distributed) · 10-25 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $100k-$140k
Total: $120k-$195k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $175k-$265k

Tiny bootstrapped team, fully remote. European base rates. Strong open-source traction and growing cloud product. High equity, high risk.

Upstash

Cache / Queue · Istanbul, Turkey (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $100k-$140k
Total: $120k-$195k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $175k-$260k

Globally distributed, remote-first. Competitive for a bootstrapped startup. Equity meaningful if serverless Redis category grows.

Payload CMS

CMS · Nashville, TN (distributed) · 15-30 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $100k-$140k
Total: $120k-$190k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $175k-$260k

Small bootstrapped team. TypeScript CMS with growing enterprise traction. Fully remote. Equity meaningful if they win in headless CMS market.

Lemon Squeezy (Stripe)

Payments · Distributed (global) · 20-50 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.4
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $100k-$140k
Total: $115k-$185k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $140k-$180k
Total: $175k-$260k

Acquired by Stripe (2024). Pre-acquisition was bootstrapped, fully remote, below-market base. Post-acquisition packages and remote policy still being defined.

Drizzle Team

ORM / Database Tooling · Distributed (founder team based in Europe) · 5-15 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.3
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $90k-$130k
Total: $110k-$180k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $165k-$250k

Bootstrapped open-source project. Below-market cash offset by meaningful equity in a rapidly growing dev tool. Very small team, high ownership.

Novu

Notifications · Tel Aviv, Israel (distributed) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $90k-$130k
Total: $110k-$175k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $160k-$250k

Open-source notification infrastructure. Fully remote. Israeli HQ with global engineering team. Strong OSS traction, growing enterprise cloud.

Hono (Fiberplane)

Web Framework · Amsterdam, Netherlands (distributed) · 10-25 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.1
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $90k-$130k
Total: $110k-$175k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $130k-$170k
Total: $165k-$245k

Small startup backing a widely adopted OSS framework. Below-market base, meaningful equity. Fully distributed across timezones.

Tinybird

Analytics · Madrid, Spain (distributed) · 60-120 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.5
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $85k-$125k
Total: $105k-$175k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $125k-$165k
Total: $158k-$245k

ClickHouse-based real-time analytics. Distributed with European HQ. Lower base vs US peers offset by equity and exceptional engineering culture.

Cal.com

Scheduling · Distributed (global) · 30-60 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 4.2
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $80k-$120k
Total: $100k-$170k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $120k-$165k
Total: $155k-$240k

Open-source first, remote-only. Below-market base (they're transparent about it). Strong mission, equity upside depends on enterprise growth.

Biome (formerly Rome Tools)

Developer Tooling · Distributed (open-source collective) · 5-15 employees
Fully RemoteGlassdoor 3.9
Software Engineer(Mid)
Base: $85k-$125k
Total: $100k-$170k
Software Engineer(Senior)
Base: $125k-$165k
Total: $155k-$240k

Community-funded open-source project. Rust expertise valued. Very low cash comp offset by mission and impact on millions of dev workflows.

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