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Example: Netflix (+200k/y base salary with no extra)
Though, at that level it is extremely competitive, and you will be working on solving some extremely challenging problems that you would never encounter outside the government contracting industry.
You can also work for high end service agencies, or startups, or if you want to make way more then that financial institutions would be a good start. Though note, the pace is very fast in many of those companies and the hours may not be worth the large sums of money you will get paid for putting them in if you cannot handle stress very well.
The problem is that housing so much expensive there that it's not clear it's actually worth it.
To put it another way, salary isn't the important thing. It's salary minus expenses, adjusted for local cost of living (really just another form of expenses). While maximizing income is good, cutting your expenses is far more useful (and easier) once your income is high enough: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/08/living-below-your-me...
Right now software engineers with AI and Deep Learning experience or Big Data experience are in demand and they can easily clear 200k.
Outside of the US a base salary of 200k less common, but still possible for senior software engineer type roles, or more commonly for CTO or Director of Engineering level roles.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/01/12/googl...