which software engineers get paid the most don't lie if you are a software developer
software engineer you definitely have googled this before or is it just me am i alone in this
it's completely natural to wonder which kind of specialty field in software engineering gets paid
the most whether you actually want to pursue it or not that's another thing i thought today it'd
be really fun to sit down and just google what software engineering roles get paid the most
now i really want to highlight something here that even though there are some very high paying roles
in software engineering don't just choose a role specifically because of the big price tag that
comes along with it and this is so important to highlight because even if you choose a role that
typically isn't paid as well as a role that is paid more usually if you are really passionate
about that role and you want to grow into that role the money will follow whatever you're
passionate in and i know it sounds kind of cheesy but it's so true the money will really follow
mugsy versus just doing something for the sake of getting more money
you might actually find that in end you don't get as much money because there's no
you're not putting in the extra effort or the passion is just lacking
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for this video for purposes of this video i've done a lot of research on
what engineering roles keep on coming up as the highest paying but that taken into consideration
one thing you need to remember is these roles and these salaries will vary greatly based on
location based on company and based on years of experience so don't base the numbers i'm sharing
with you solely on these need to be reflected on to your experience maybe you have experience
where you have gotten paid more maybe the experience we've gone paid left less but uh
don't get too caught up on this it's more so to say hey these are the roles that are
really in demand for this video i am using info world they have on their website the 18 highest
paying developer roles in 2021 and i really liked this resource because where these came
from where this data came from is so important to me where are we getting this information
and in this case we are getting the information from robert happ's 2022 salary guide and this
is a salary guide that is done every year for the highest paying software developer or engineering
roles in the us so this is us-based that's another thing to say that's very important and all of the
salaries listed in this are in us dollars shoes are at the top or bottom that is a real question
i feel like we gotta start at the bottom and work our way to number one okay let's do that
i was deciding if we should start at the bottom or top like the highest paying to the least highest
paying when i say lease it's still very high paying but i think we're just going to mix it
in together different roles and because once again these are all very in demand roles so the pricing
or the salary will vary coming in at number one is cloud and software architects according to
the robert half salary guide the highest paying role that was non-c-suite for 2021 in the u.s
was a cloud architect with the average salary for cloud slash art network architect being 153 000
to 180 thousand then right underneath of that for an applications architect it'd be a hundred and
fifty thousand to a hundred and eighty thousand now i don't think i need to say this but obviously
these are all annual salaries so what exactly though does a cloud architect do an architecture
role essentially whether you're a cloud architect whether you are application architect you are
overseeing the company's it infrastructure so you are really working with whether it be the
client or the company itself that you work for to understand what technologies are best to use
and how to build a system how to build how are you going to build a system for this company
so in the case of the cloud this could include cloud adoption plans cloud application design
cloud management and monitoring okay let's move on to the next one we are going to talk about which
is software and applications manager of course on a management level you typically do get paid more
uh the more senior you get so there's no surprise here what is listed for a salary of software and
applications manager is a hundred and forty two thousand to a hundred and sixty six thousand and
i think this is pretty explainable as to what a manager does for software and applications uh at a
manager level you typically aren't coding as much maybe some companies you will be others you won't
but you're managing a group of people now this is similar to a dev lead role in the sense that
you're managing people and if they have questions you are going to them and in some companies
the title is actually interchangeable but at a lot of companies a manager level is higher than
a dev lead role and in the case of that you are coding less you are managing doing more of the
people management side but to some degree still in the software side another high high-paying role is
of course senior software engineer and this is a role that is between 135 000 to 162 000 annually
typically i'm going to stop saying typically because you get the point of this and a senior
software engineer what they do once again varies place to place but from my experience as a senior
software engineer or developer what it really entails of is you're taking more of a lead role
so you're helping other software developers or engineers in their career if they have questions
they come to you you're still really in the code base but there's a lot more meetings involved
a lot more discussions involved in how the software is built what features are coming up
and the natural kind of progression from a senior software engineer is to become a dev lead
some companies already align senior with devlea like once you become a senior you're immediately
a dev lead where i work that is not the case you can be a senior and then the next kind of
mini step is devlead but some companies intertwine them both okay let's talk about another one that
is super popular and for a long time i really wanted my career to go in this direction
i don't know if anymore but and i find that really interesting because as you grow in your career
you find different areas that are interesting to you versus what you thought you wanted to
do even a few years ago which i really love that about technology and the tech industry is you're
constantly evolving as the technology does too or you should be anyways or else you're going to be
stuck really far in the past very quickly this role is devops engineers i think this is i know
everyone says data science is a sexy role but i think devops engineers is a sexy role i don't know
why but i've always been very like thought that is such a cool role like people who are in devops wow
they they are just geniuses they know everything anyways so if you're in deb ops kudos to you
okay let's see what is the average uh devops engineer salary so in this case it's a hundred
and twenty five thousand to a hundred and forty nine thousand now something similar to devops
is a site reliable site reliability engineer with the salary range from 126 000 to 154 000.
make money rain is that what they say i don't know i'm really i'm really outdating myself
here just stay in my tech bubble but devops engineer is another great great role to do
and to kind of get into more of what exactly is a devops engineer because that's something
that i had the question of for a long time and i think it's because it varies so much
place to place company to company that this role always intrigued me as to what exactly do they do
so for this in this case rather than giving my own explanation which i'm sure will be very wordy
i just simply googled what is devops engineer so this is an explanation according to red hat
a devops engineer introduces processes tools methodologies to balance needs throughout the
software development life cycle from coding to deployment to maintenance and updates
and i also think it's really interesting like many technical roles a devops engineer needs a lot of
soft skills too a lot of good communication skills working in teams working together
problem solving skills it's not just as much as technical skills are important soft skills are
equally if not almost more important i would argue because without the proper communication
it doesn't matter how technically technical you are if you can't communicate what is going on i
think it'd be very hard to do this role i think regardless of what path you choose to go down
just even knowing what jobs or the highest paying uh jobs within software engineering
that are in demand is really interesting because if you're like me and you're kind of figuring out
what area you still want to specialize in for me for example i thought it was devops
but now it's continuing it's always been cloud and i have a lot of different certifications in
clap i never thought i wanted to pursue it as much but it is really interesting to me
and i guess i'm sharing that because regardless of what path you want to go down just being aware of
what jobs and what roles are most in demand can help you as far as figuring out if you have a
wide variety of interests where you maybe want to hone in on specific interests especially if
they align with one of these career paths i will link everything down below the salary guides all
of that so you can check it out as well because it's super interesting to me and it isn't to be
showy or braggy or anything like that but rather the opposite let's educate ourselves on what roles
are out there what the salaries are so we can make informed decisions sounds like a parent like a
parent ad or something but it's true also if you haven't already i linked interact down in track
conference down below in the description this is a free conference a one day free conference
i will be speaking at the event i will be attending the event it's gonna be phenomenal
speaking of engineering the top engineering leaders as i mentioned earlier are going to be
there speaking so it's such a great way whatever stage of career you are at to soak up all this
information and advice that they will be providing okay i'll see you all soon thanks everyone
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