Lead Developer Salaries in California

7+ years of combined experience across software engineering, data engineering, solutions engineering, or technical product roles.

$149,200 - $249,000 a year

Strong cross-functional communication skills with QA, development, field, support, and customer engineering teams. Ways to stand out from the crowd:

$184,000 - $356,500 a year

Experience driving cross-team or org-level initiatives (e.g., design systems, platform work, performance improvements).

$188,000 - $250,000 a year

Strong technical, architectural, and troubleshooting skills. Own technical challenges, making decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability.

$190,000 - $210,000 a year

Automate, develop, monitor, improve, and troubleshoot across engineering development, tooling, testing, integration, deployment, configuration processes, and…

$146,200 - $239,200 a year

Work with cross functional teams to design product strategies and build solutions to grow TikTok in important markets. Strong communication and teamwork skills;

$244,800 - $450,000 a year