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Computer Systems Engineer/Architect in Sacramento

229 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 229 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$55,220
10th percentile
$110,980
median
$174,240
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Zoox · Anthropic · Rocket Lab · Verkada · Roblox · Harbinger Motors · Intuitive Surgical · Mach Industries · Scale AI · Agility Robotics · Chime · Faire · Gusto · Sierra · 1X · Figma · 360 IT Professionals · Antora Energy · Kairos Power · Kodiak Robotics · Lyft · Reddit · Ridgeline · Robinhood · Skild AI · Sonsoft Inc · Zum Services · Applied Intuition · Apptronik · Artech Information System · Ask IT Consulting · Collabera · Discord · Integrated Resources Inc · Klaviyo · Nimble Robotics · Pinterest · Saronic · Spring Health · USM · Wealthfront

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