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System Design salaries in San Francisco, CA
System Design professionals in San Francisco, CA earn $167.7–268.8K per year on average, based on 3 jobs. System Design roles in San Francisco, CA pay 15% above the board-wide average of $153.7–227.5K for System Design jobs on Tech Jobs.
Average salary range
$167.7–268.8K
Based on 3 jobs · 15% more than the average salary on Tech Jobs
25th percentile
$152.5K
Average
$218.3K
75th percentile
$303.3K
Top paying titles in San Francisco, CA
Highest paying job titles in San Francisco, CA, ranked by average salary.
Software Engineering
Avg. $173.3–271.5K · 21 jobs
Backend Engineering
Avg. $174.4–287.1K · 16 jobs
AI Engineer
Avg. $192.4–290.4K · 10 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $198.1–296.3K · 7 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $202–326.2K · 6 jobs
Backend Development
Avg. $170.8–237.5K · 6 jobs
Other top paying skills in San Francisco, CA
Highest paying skills in San Francisco, CA beyond System Design, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $181.5–276.8K · 37 jobs
AWS
Avg. $184.4–274.2K · 17 jobs
Distributed Systems
Avg. $176.4–278K · 15 jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $176.5–255.2K · 14 jobs
Typescript
Avg. $184.7–313.5K · 12 jobs
Go
Avg. $184.4–300.7K · 12 jobs
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All salary figures are converted to annual equivalents in USD. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.