JobFrame · SOFTWA.SOFTWARE984E.P7
Software Engineering
P7 · P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$231,230
$181,651 – $294,340 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
P7 · 7 of 7 in track
Median pay
$231,230
$181,651–$294,340
Level
P7
P7 · 7 of 7 in track
Super-function
technology
Demand-heat
cool
15.8% growth
Summary
Designs, builds, tests, and maintains production software systems through coding, debugging, architecture, and technical decision-making. Distinct from sibling focuses such as QA/Test Engineering (validation-centric), DevOps/SRE (infrastructure and reliability operations), and Data/ML Engineering (model and pipeline-centric) — this focus centers on application/system feature development, code quality, system design, and the technical direction of software products.
This level — P7 P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.