Cassandra salary: $220K median
The median advertised Cassandra salary is $220K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $195K to $260K: counted from 44 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $106 an hour or $18,354 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $269K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Cassandra jobs
$220Kmedian advertised salary
$195K – $260Kmiddle half of roles
$223Kaverage advertised salary
44roles counted
Cassandra salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $260K, 20% more than senior roles ($216K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $216K | $187K–$220K | 15 |
| Lead and above | $260K | $230K–$268K | 19 |
Cassandra salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸California | $220K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $220K | 42 |
Skills that pay more for Cassandra roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Istio | $260K | +$40K | 5 |
| ClickHouse | $260K | +$40K | 7 |
| Incident response | $238K | +$18K | 10 |
| Prometheus | $229K | +$9K | 7 |
| Kafka | $229K | +$9K | 23 |
Top-paying companies
Highest-paying open Cassandra roles
All Cassandra jobs- Director of EngineeringDataVisor · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$200K - $380KLead and abovePythonJavaC++
- Software Engineering Manager - Platform TeamDataVisor · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$180K - $350KPythonJavaC++
- Principal Software EngineerRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLead and aboveGoMachine LearningDynamoDB
- Senior Staff Engineer, Open Source ServerTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$208K - $341KRemoteLead and aboveGoJavaPostgreSQL
- Senior Staff SRE, Site ExperienceReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$232K - $326KRemoteLead and aboveKafkaRedisKubernetes
- Staff Software Engineer, RoutingNuro · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California (HQ)$213K - $320KLead and aboveC++PostgreSQLDocker
- Technical Lead Software Engineer, RoutingNuro · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California (HQ)$213K - $320KLead and aboveC++PostgreSQLDocker
- Principal Software Engineer - Query Engine, Database Internals - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇺🇸United States$160K - $304KLead and aboveJavaPostgreSQLMongoDB
- Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇺🇸United States$160K - $304KLead and aboveJavaPostgreSQLMongoDB
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AdsReddit · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$217K - $304KLead and aboveGoPythonKafka
- Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, MatchmakingRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorMachine LearningKafkaRedis
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, StorageCrusoe · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA - US$245K - $290KLead and aboveRustGoC++
- Staff Engineer, Core Services PlatformStrava · 🇺🇸Strava Denver$225K - $278KHybridLead and aboveGoJavaRuby
- Senior Staff Platform Engineer - CoreFanatics Betting & Gaming · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States$220K - $275KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Federal (TS/SCI)Okta · 🇺🇸Maryland; Washington, DC$184K - $253KLead and aboveGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Staff Platform Engineer - CoreFanatics Betting & Gaming · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States$200K - $250KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- AI/ML Software EngineerASG · Remote$200K - $250KRemotePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Sr. IT Data EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$148K - $246KSeniorPythonJavaSQL
- Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)Huntress · 🇺🇸United States of America$215K - $245KLead and abovePostgreSQLAzureRedis
- Senior Software EngineerDatadog · 🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA$192K - $240KSeniorGoPythonKafka
Questions about Cassandra pay
- What is the average Cassandra salary?
- $223K a year on average and $220K at the median, across 44 open Cassandra postings at 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 $195K to $260K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Cassandra pay?
- Nuro ($266K), DataVisor ($265K), Roblox ($244K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a cassandra a high-paying job?
- The median Cassandra posting advertises $220K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 27% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a cassandra?
- A tenth of the postings offer $269K a year or more; the highest open Cassandra role advertises up to $380K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Cassandra salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $220K a year is about $106 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,354 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $94 to $125 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Cassandra roles?
- Postings that ask for Istio (+$40K, 5 postings), ClickHouse (+$40K, 7 postings), Incident response (+$18K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $220K median of all Cassandra postings with pay.
- 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 Cassandra roles at companies is $220K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $195K to $260K. Counted from 44 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/cassandra/
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