On: How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku

[nfriedly]

Heroku is now part of Salesforce. They don't appear have an official Staff level, but per [1] the levels above Senior are Lead at ~$287k (total comp), Principal at ~$378k, and Architect at ~$557k.

[1]: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Salesforce&track=Software%20...

[sabujp → nfriedly]

unfortunately those are low, bay area FAANG (incl bonus + stock):

    junior: 200-250
    mid junior : 250 - 300
    senior: 300-350
    staff: 450-500
    principal: 600-700
    director: 800 - million+
    vp: millions

[secondcoming → nfriedly]

US salaries are insane

[nfriedly → secondcoming]

Yes, although to be fair, that's on the high-end even for San Francisco. Total compensation in the range of $100-200k is much more common.

[yibg → nfriedly]

That's not right. Base compensation of 100k - 200k for engineers is more common, and even that is usually for up to "senior" engineers or so.