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Senior Software Engineer In Chennai Salaries

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Last updated on July 31, 2025

Average salary is ₹26.4lakhs.

Employees as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai earn an average of ₹26.4lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹17.0lakhs to ₹123.8lakhs based on 476 profiles.

👨‍💻 Male	₹24lakhs Male Average Salary : ₹ 24 lakhs
👩‍💻 Female	₹20lakhs Female Average Salary : ₹ 20 lakhs

For every ₹100 paid to men, women are paid ₹83

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Company	Title	Experience	Annual Salary	School	Skills
Microsoft Chennai	Senior Software Engineer	16.3yrs	Base: ₹58.6lakhs Stocks: ₹34.4lakhs (Today) (2.9%) ₹35.4L Bonus: ₹11.2lakhs CTC:₹104.2lakhs (Today) (1.0%) ₹105.2L	Anna University	Ruby On Rails C# .Net Framework Jira Core Java Applitools (Show More) Gatling Circleci Jenkins Kusto Query Language (Kql) Test Automation Qtp Selenium Automation Test Automation Framework Selenium Webdriver Java Diffy Webdriver Whitebox Testing
Walmart Global Tech India Chennai	Senior Software Engineer	9.3yrs	Base: ₹33.0lakhs Stocks: ₹8.7lakhs (Today) (3.4%) ₹9.0L Bonus: ₹7.5lakhs CTC:₹49.2lakhs (Today) (0.6%) ₹49.5L	Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology Stell Maris Convent School	Spark Scala Bigquery Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) Jenkins Etl (Show More) Data Warehousing
Qualcomm Chennai	Software Engineer (Senior Engineer) Male	5yrs	Base: ₹26.8lakhs Stocks: ₹13.4lakhs (Today) (3.7%) ₹12.9L Bonus: ₹1.9lakhs CTC:₹42.1lakhs (Today) (1.2%) ₹41.6L
Chargebee Chennai	Senior Lead Software Engineer	11.2yrs	Base: ₹42.3lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹42.3lakhs	Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering	Front-end Development Javascript React Programming React.js Html (Show More) Angularjs Node.js Jquery Js Git Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
Paypal Chennai	Software Engineer III (T24)	4.3yrs		Techno Main - Salt Lake The Bhawanipur Education Society School	Java Python SQL NoSQ Microservices Rest (Show More) Aws Javascript React.js Node.js Angular Typescript Git Ibm Db2 Ibm Mq Dynamo Db
Qualcomm Chennai	Senior Software Engineer (SDE 3)	5yrs	Base: ₹13.5lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹13.5lakhs	Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning	Software Development Team Management Applied Machine Learning Computer Vision Sentence Transformers Regression Models (Show More) Docker Fast.ai Tensorflow Large Language Models (Llm) Jenkins Extract, Transform, Load (Etl) Mlops Scikit-learn Transformers Pandas Pytorch Mathematics Linear Algebra C Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Aws Sagemaker Object-oriented Programming (Oop) Github Git Linux Data Science Data Mining Deep Learning Statistics Programming Machine Learning Microsoft Powerpoint Python Teamwork Data Analysis Gimp Microsoft Office Microsoft Word Windows Ubuntu Latex Natural Language Processing (Nlp) Nlp
Poshmark Chennai	Senior Software Engineer 1	4yrs	Base: ₹20.1lakhs Stocks: ₹2.4lakhs Bonus: - CTC:₹22.5lakhs	Hooghly Engineering and Technology College	Distributed Systems Java Object Oriented Design Amazon Web Services (Aws) Ruby Mongodb (Show More) Redis Docker Kubernetes Datadog Microservices Rest Apis Database Management System (Dbms) Operating Systems Algorithms C++ Html Python Cascading Style Sheets (Css) C Computer Architecture
Rocketlane Chennai	Backend engineer (Senior) Male	5yrs	Base: ₹18.2lakhs Stocks: ₹0.5lakhs Bonus: - CTC:₹18.7lakhs
Wells Fargo Chennai	Senior Software Engineer	7.9yrs	Base: ₹20.9lakhs Stocks: - Bonus: - CTC:₹20.9lakhs	Jeppiaar Institute of technology. vidhyaa vikas higher secondary school	Html5 Agile Environment Application Programming Interfaces (Api) Angularjs Front-end Development Cascading Style Sheets (Css) (Show More) Html Rxjs Web Applications Json Document Object Model (Dom) Angular Node.js Blockchain Docker Javascript Mysql Ionic Framework Android Ethereum Mongodb Smart Contracts Hyperledger Fabric Solidity Sql Ionic Web3.js Python Git Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (Ci/cd) Typescript Distributed Ledger Technology (Dlt) Agile Methodologies Java
Freshworks Chennai	Backend engineer (Senior Software Engineer) Male	6yrs	Base: ₹25.5lakhs Stocks: ₹2.8lakhs (Today) (14.3%) ₹2.4L Bonus: - CTC:₹28.3lakhs (Today) (1.4%) ₹27.9L

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Frequently asked questions

How much do Senior Software Engineer In Chennai employees make?

Employees as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai earn an average of ₹26.4lakhs, mostly ranging from ₹17.0lakhs per year to ₹123.8lakhs per year based on 476 profiles. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹43.0lakhs per year.

What is the average salary of Senior Software Engineer In Chennai?

Average salary of an employee as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai is ₹26.4lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

Highest reported salary offered as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai is ₹157.7lakhs. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹43.0lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹123.8lakhs per year.

What are the most common skills required as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

11% of employees have skills in java . 11% also know javascript . 8% also know python .

What are the highest paying jobs as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

The top 5 highest paying jobs as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai with reported salaries are:

software engineer - ₹38.0lakhs per year
senior software engineer 1 - ₹28.0lakhs per year
senior lead software engineer - ₹27.0lakhs per year
senior software engineer in test - ₹24.0lakhs per year
senior staff software engineer - ₹23.0lakhs per year

What is the median salary offered as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹20.1lakhs per year.

How is the age distributed among employees as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

18% of employees lie between 26-31 yrs . 11% of the employees fall in the age group of 31-36 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

16% hold a Graduate degree. 6% hold a PostGraduate degree.

Which schools do employees working as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai went to?

8% of employees studied at Anna University . 1% studied at Chennai University .

Frequently asked questions

How much do Senior Software Engineer In Chennai employees make?

What is the average salary of Senior Software Engineer In Chennai?

Average salary of an employee as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai is ₹26.4lakhs.

What is the highest salary offered as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

What are the most common skills required as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

11% of employees have skills in java . 11% also know javascript . 8% also know python .

What are the highest paying jobs as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

The top 5 highest paying jobs as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai with reported salaries are:

software engineer - ₹38.0lakhs per year
senior software engineer 1 - ₹28.0lakhs per year
senior lead software engineer - ₹27.0lakhs per year
senior software engineer in test - ₹24.0lakhs per year
senior staff software engineer - ₹23.0lakhs per year

What is the median salary offered as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

The median salary approximately calculated from salary profiles measured so far is ₹20.1lakhs per year.

How is the age distributed among employees as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

18% of employees lie between 26-31 yrs . 11% of the employees fall in the age group of 31-36 yrs .

What qualifications do employees have as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai?

16% hold a Graduate degree. 6% hold a PostGraduate degree.

Which schools do employees working as Senior Software Engineer In in Chennai went to?

8% of employees studied at Anna University . 1% studied at Chennai University .

Salary Brackets

Percentage
< 10 lakhs	< 10 lakhs Percentage : 6
10-20 lakhs	10-20 lakhs Percentage : 42
20-30 lakhs	20-30 lakhs Percentage : 27
30-40 lakhs	30-40 lakhs Percentage : 11
40-50 lakhs	40-50 lakhs Percentage : 5
> 50 lakhs	> 50 lakhs Percentage : 9

Age Brackets

Percentage
21-26 yrs	21-26 yrs Percentage : 3
26-31 yrs	26-31 yrs Percentage : 18
31-36 yrs	31-36 yrs Percentage : 11
36-41 yrs	36-41 yrs Percentage : 4

Skills

Trending

java

11 %

javascript

11 %

python

8 %

c++

6 %

html

6 %

oracle

5 %

Schools

Top

Anna University

8 %

Chennai University

1 %

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)

1 %

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)

1 %

Madras University

1 %

National Institute of Technology (NIT)

1 %

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

1 %

Senior Software Engineer In Chennai Salaries

Average salary is ₹26.4lakhs.

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