Try to get hired into finance or directly by a US company which considers software crucial to their business, and give the company cause to believe they are reasonably in competition with other companies in that set during your recruiting process, so that they pull out their non-local pay scale. My ambient impression from knowledge of a few hiring markets in Southeast Asia is that $100k is either relatively high or prohibitively high on the local scales; this is materially untrue of software engineering for companies in the target set these days, but they are happy to economize at their non-US offices if they think they can get away with it. (Reporting, not endorsing.)
After that, standard advice for salary negotiation applies, but that's probably both the most impactful single thing you can do and about all that is necessary to hit $100k, since that's effectively below the floor for starting salaries in software engineering in the set of companies described above.
(At least some companies in that set hire engineers based in Southeast Asia.)
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SEA = Southeast Asia in this context?
Try to get hired into finance or directly by a US company which considers software crucial to their business, and give the company cause to believe they are reasonably in competition with other companies in that set during your recruiting process, so that they pull out their non-local pay scale. My ambient impression from knowledge of a few hiring markets in Southeast Asia is that $100k is either relatively high or prohibitively high on the local scales; this is materially untrue of software engineering for companies in the target set these days, but they are happy to economize at their non-US offices if they think they can get away with it. (Reporting, not endorsing.)
After that, standard advice for salary negotiation applies, but that's probably both the most impactful single thing you can do and about all that is necessary to hit $100k, since that's effectively below the floor for starting salaries in software engineering in the set of companies described above.
(At least some companies in that set hire engineers based in Southeast Asia.)