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Kuldeep Singh
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Highest Paying Jobs for Developer

Highest Paying Jobs: The software industry is exploding, and there’s an unprecedented demand for folks with technical skills all over the world. But not all skillsets are created equal.

More than 70,000 developers responded to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey 2022 – the absolute best look at the state of the technology industry, as reported by the people actually working in it.

These are the top-paying job titles you should be shooting for if you want to make six figures in the tech world, as reported by the developers and administrators working in the industry.

Highest Paying Jobs

Senior roles like executives and engineering managers tend to have the highest salaries.

But in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and Canada we see that Blockchain developers have comparable salaries even though they have the lowest average years of experience.

Below is the highest paying jobs list

1. Senior Executive

Senior executives are typically responsible for managing individual departments or divisions within their company and ensuring that they are in alignment with corporate strategies and plans for growth. They may also be responsible for overseeing the work of department heads who manage smaller teams of employees.

Salary: $117,126 USD

2. Engineering manager

An engineering manager’s operational responsibilities involve overseeing engineering projects and teams. They help strategize, design, and manage projects at every stage, ensuring that the projects are completed efficiently, correctly, and on schedule.

Salary: $111,976 USD

3. Site Reliability Engineer

A site reliability engineer (SRE) creates a bridge between development and IT operations by taking on the tasks typically done by operations. Instead, such tasks are given to these types of engineers who use automation tools to solve problems by creating scalable and reliable software systems.

Salary: $95,979 USD

4. Security Professional

The security profession consists of security executives, managers, supervisors and their staff—the people within the organization who are charged with the protection of assets against security risks. That responsibility is delegated to security professionals by the owners and senior executives of the business.

Salary: $91,416 USD

5. Cloud infrastructure engineer

A cloud engineer is an IT professional that builds and maintains cloud infrastructure. Cloud engineers can have more specific roles that include cloud architecting (designing cloud solutions for organizations), development (coding for the cloud), and administration (working with cloud networks).

Salary: $89,580 USD

6. Blockchain Developer

Blockchain software developers build applications onto existing blockchain platforms. They handle front-end and back-end development, design, and maintenance.

Salary: $79,983 USD

7. Data Engineer

The main focus of a data engineer is to metamorphose the raw data into something viable and readable before its presentation to an organization. Not just this, they are required to design, build, test, blend, manage, and optimize the data with the help of numerous sources

Salary: $79,983 USD

8. DevOps specialist

A DevOps engineer introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment, to maintenance and updates.

Salary: $79,236 USD

9. Product manager

A product manager is the person who identifies the customer need and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, articulates what success looks like for a product, and rallies a team to turn that vision into a reality.

Salary: $76,783 USD

10. Data scientist or machine learning specialist

Data Scientist: In simple terms, a data scientist’s job is to analyze data for actionable insights. Specific tasks include: Identifying the data-analytics problems that offer the greatest opportunities to the organization. Determining the correct data sets and variables.

Machine Learning specialist: Machine Learning Specialist is a professional specialized in developing Machine learning, a branch of computer science that focuses on developing algorithms which can “learn” from or adapt to the data and make predictions.

Salary: $74,651 USD

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Jon Randy 🎖️

The software industry is exploding, and there’s an unprecedented demand for folks with technical skills all over the world.

Did you mean 'imploding'? 😊

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