Director and VP of Engineering salary: $266K median
The median advertised Director and VP of Engineering salary is $266K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $232K to $300K: counted from 292 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $128 an hour or $22,125 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $356K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll director and VP of engineering jobs
$266Kmedian advertised salary
$232K – $300Kmiddle half of roles
$274Kaverage advertised salary
292roles counted
Director and VP of Engineering salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $275K, 5% more than senior roles ($262K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $262K | $242K–$279K | 95 |
| Lead and above | $275K | $230K–$315K | 197 |
Director and VP of Engineering salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $280K | 98 |
| 🇺🇸California | $275K | 109 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $269K | 264 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $269K | 51 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $235K | 16 |
Skills that pay more for Director and VP of Engineering roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | $286K | +$21K | 30 |
| Incident response | $275K | +$10K | 39 |
| LLM | $274K | +$9K | 55 |
| GCP | $274K | +$9K | 40 |
| Python | $270K | +$4K | 51 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Roblox | $428K | 5 |
| Airwallex | $350K | 3 |
| Snowflake | $322K | 7 |
| Horizon3ai | $315K | 5 |
| Headway | $298K | 3 |
| Temporal | $291K | 3 |
| Databricks | $272K | 5 |
| Mercury | $269K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $265K | 4 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 4 |
| Zscaler | $262K | 3 |
| Duolingo | $255K | 3 |
| Braze | $254K | 5 |
| GitLab | $251K | 3 |
| Semgrep | $242K | 3 |
| Metropolis | $240K | 3 |
| Omada Health | $228K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $221K | 3 |
| Meade | $212K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Director and VP of Engineering roles
All director and VP of engineering jobs- Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AIRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$526K - $574KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads MeasurementPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US$315K - $551KLead and aboveMachine LearningAIAI agents
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads QualityPinterest · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US$315K - $551KLead and aboveMachine LearningAIReinforcement learning
- Senior Director of Engineering, Native DataApollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$349K - $502KHybridLead and aboveHubSpotData qualityETL
- Senior Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & CompliancePolymarket · 🇺🇸New York$350K - $500KSenior
- Director of Engineering, Clearing, Payments & RiskPolymarket · 🇺🇸New York$350K - $500KLead and aboveGoRails
- VP, Product EngineeringBraze · 🇺🇸New York City$285K - $481KLead and aboveFeature flags
- Director, Software Engineering (Platform)Neko Health · 🇺🇸New York$405K - $480KHybridLead and aboveDockerAzureDesign systems
- Director of Engineering - Traffic & NetworkingSnowflake · 🇺🇸US-CA-Menlo Park$380K - $475KLead and aboveGCPAzureAWS
- Senior Director of Engineering, Product SoftwareZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$354K - $470KLead and above
- Director, Software EngineeringTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$224K - $470KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Head of Engineering, Payments PlatformAirwallex · 🇸🇬SG - Singapore$385K - $460KLead and aboveReconciliationsCard payments
- Director of Engineering – Studio SystemsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$399K - $458KLead and aboveC++LLM
- Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)Sentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$300K - $450KHybridLead and aboveStorage systems
- Head of Engineering, PlatformGoodfire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$300K - $450KLead and aboveMachine LearningPyTorchJAX
- VP, Data EngineeringConfido · 🇺🇸NYC Office$350K - $450KLead and aboveSQLAirflowdbt
- VP of EngineeringRain · 🇺🇸New York, NY$320K - $450KHybridLead and aboveCI/CDRailsSolana
- Senior Director of Engineering, New SubjectsDuolingo · 🇺🇸New York, NY$296K - $444KLead and aboveLLMWorkforce planningTechnical recruiting
- VP, EngineeringOdysseyml · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$343K - $429KLead and above
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeAWSInfrastructure as code
Questions about Director and VP of Engineering pay
- What is the average Director and VP of Engineering salary?
- $274K a year on average and $266K at the median, across 292 open Director and VP of Engineering postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $232K to $300K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Director and VP of Engineering pay?
- Roblox ($428K), Airwallex ($350K), Snowflake ($322K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a director and vp of engineering a high-paying job?
- The median Director and VP of Engineering posting advertises $266K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 53% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a director and vp of engineering?
- A tenth of the postings offer $356K a year or more; the highest open Director and VP of Engineering role advertises up to $574K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Director and VP of Engineering salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $266K a year is about $128 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $22,125 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $112 to $144 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Director and VP of Engineering roles?
- Postings that ask for PostgreSQL (+$21K, 30 postings), Incident response (+$10K, 39 postings), LLM (+$9K, 55 postings) advertise more than the $266K median of all Director and VP of Engineering postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Director and VP of Engineering roles at companies is $266K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $232K to $300K. Counted from 292 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/vp-engineering/
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