CI/CD salary: $208K median
From 1,302 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$208Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $239Kmiddle half of roles
$211Kaverage advertised salary
1,302roles counted
CI/CD salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $235K, 18% more than senior roles ($200K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $200K | $180K–$216K | 504 |
| Lead and above | $235K | $212K–$260K | 317 |
| No level in title | $188K | $148K–$242K | 479 |
CI/CD salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $225K | 505 |
| 🇺🇸California | $218K | 637 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $216K | 180 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $216K | 31 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $212K | 87 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $210K | 1,229 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $205K | 27 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $205K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸Pittsburgh | $200K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $199K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $195K | 37 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $192K | 16 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $187K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $182K | 61 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $175K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $167K | 46 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 21 |
| Mercor | $360K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $336K | 29 |
| Lambda | $330K | 9 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 5 |
| Roblox | $312K | 14 |
| Sierra | $310K | 8 |
| River AI Inc. | $310K | 3 |
| Decagon | $300K | 7 |
| Replit | $295K | 5 |
| Sentry | $295K | 3 |
| Scale AI | $284K | 17 |
| Discord | $279K | 5 |
| Figma | $264K | 6 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 12 |
| Ripple | $260K | 9 |
| Affirm | $260K | 6 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 6 |
| Otter.ai | $260K | 3 |
| Apptronik | $255K | 4 |
| Wayve | $254K | 4 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Vercel | $252K | 8 |
| Zoox | $250K | 7 |
| Hex | $248K | 8 |
Highest-paying open CI/CD roles
All CI/CD jobs- Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer ProductivityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$405K - $625KLeadRustPythonDocker
- Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)OpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$295K - $536KLinuxCI/CDKubernetes
- Lead - Security Controls Assurance - SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$410K - $510KLeadRustGoPython
- Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$401K - $510KRemoteLeadAzureCI/CDKubernetes
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer, Applied AI - SystemsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $500KTerraformLLMGraphQL
- Head of Solutions Architecture, StartupsVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin$382K - $485KLeadJavaScriptReactNode.js
- Engineering Manager, Core Cloud PlatformLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KGoPythonMachine Learning
- Engineering Director, AI EngineeringHex · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $425KLeadPythonTypeScriptReact
- Design Verification Emulation, HardwareRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Austin, TX, Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KPythonC++CI/CD
- Design Verification Engineer, HardwareRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX$200K - $420KPythonCI/CDBash
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonGCP
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KLeadPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Senior Software Engineer, Developer PlatformDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptCI/CD
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Helix AI Engineer, BackendFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$200K - $400KGoPythonReact
- Senior Software Engineer, Developer InfrastructureSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$190K - $400KSeniorPythonDockerGCP
- Staff Software Engineer, Platform & InfrastructureSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$240K - $400KLeadGoPythonJava
Questions about CI/CD pay
- What is the average CI/CD salary?
- $211K a year on average and $208K at the median, across 1,302 open CI/CD 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 $175K to $239K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest CI/CD pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Mercor ($360K), OpenAI ($336K), 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 CI/CD roles at tech companies is $208K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $239K. Counted from 1,302 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/ci-cd/
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