Ansible salary: $188K median
From 225 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$188Kmedian advertised salary
$152K – $218Kmiddle half of roles
$195Kaverage advertised salary
225roles counted
Ansible salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $225K, 14% more than senior roles ($198K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $198K | $178K–$218K | 102 |
| Lead and above | $225K | $216K–$275K | 24 |
| No level in title | $154K | $142K–$195K | 98 |
Ansible salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $215K | 91 |
| 🇺🇸California | $196K | 132 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $188K | 211 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $187K | 31 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $179K | 22 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $148K | 31 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $396K | 3 |
| Lambda | $311K | 10 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Together AI | $245K | 11 |
| Crusoe | $204K | 8 |
| MongoDB | $204K | 5 |
| Cloudflare | $200K | 5 |
| Lightning AI | $196K | 4 |
| Waymo | $195K | 3 |
| Illumio | $185K | 13 |
| Tailscale | $179K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $178K | 9 |
| SambaNova | $175K | 3 |
| Pure Storage | $173K | 7 |
| GitLab | $173K | 4 |
| Fastly | $170K | 3 |
| True Anomaly | $166K | 4 |
| JFrog | $165K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $148K | 53 |
| TextNow, Inc. | $138K | 4 |
| Rocket Lab | $92K | 5 |
Highest-paying open Ansible roles
All Ansible jobs- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KGoPythonTerraform
- Client Platform EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KGoPythonDocker
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KLeadPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Helix AI Engineer, Data InfrastructureFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$150K - $400KPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Senior Software Engineer - Fleet EngineeringLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $395KSeniorGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Software Engineer - SDNLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$266K - $395KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Bare Metal InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $350KTerraformLinuxKubernetes
- Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - North CentralPure Storage · 🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Detr…$126K - $338KDockerTerraformGCP
- Principal Network Production Engineer, SparkCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$285K - $335KLeadPythonCI/CDAnsible
- Staff Engineer, Distributed Storage & AI InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $330KLeadRustGoPython
- Sr. ML Infrastructure EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Sr. Network EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorPythonTerraformAnsible
- Director, Infrastructure EngineeringRunPod · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$225K - $325KRemoteLeadTerraformKubernetesAnsible
- Cloud Platform ArchitectSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$245K - $325KRustGoPython
- Principal Engineer CryptographyGoDaddy · 🇺🇸United States$166K - $323KLeadPythonJavaC++
- Senior Manager, Infrastructure EngineeringTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$220K - $320KSeniorTerraformAzureCI/CD
- Senior Staff Automation EngineerCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$250K - $300KLeadPythonPostgreSQLDocker
- Senior Solutions Engineer, EnterpriseTailscale · 🇺🇸Remote (United States)$250K - $300KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTerraform
Questions about Ansible pay
- What is the average Ansible salary?
- $195K a year on average and $188K at the median, across 225 open Ansible postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $152K to $218K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Ansible pay?
- OpenAI ($396K), Lambda ($311K), EarnIn ($254K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Ansible roles at tech companies is $188K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $152K to $218K. Counted from 225 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/ansible/
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