- The office rule differs more than the pay: some Austin roles are remote within Texas, and New York roles run to three office days a week.
- Travel is stated as a maximum on both sides, so ask what it looked like for the team last quarter.
- Read what each posting asks you to build before treating two ranges as comparable.
- Compare the posted ranges on the Austin salary page and the New York salary page.
How the work differs across examples
Kong's staff FDE role lists Austin, Texas and remote work: API and AI gateway migrations, automation frameworks, integrations, plugins, CI/CD, Kubernetes and production infrastructure for external customers. SecurityScorecard's senior FDE role lists both metros and describes customer deployments, AI-native security solutions and integrations, with employees near downtown Austin or Midtown New York on-site one or two days a week.
OpenAI's financial-services FDE role is in the New York metro list: discovery, scoping, production AI delivery, launch controls, evaluation and post-production adoption for regulated institutions, hybrid with three office days a week.
The comparison checklist
Record the eligible location, the office schedule, the travel requirement, the customer audience, the production ownership, the required experience and the salary range. Compare bonus, equity, benefits and vesting separately. Where the employer states no sponsorship, travel or office rule, leave that point open and ask.
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