CloudFormation salary: $192K median
The median advertised CloudFormation salary is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $168K to $225K: counted from 110 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $92 an hour or $15,979 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $248K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll CloudFormation jobs
$192Kmedian advertised salary
$168K – $225Kmiddle half of roles
$195Kaverage advertised salary
110roles counted
CloudFormation salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $225K, 20% more than senior roles ($187K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $187K | $178K–$206K | 49 |
| Lead and above | $225K | $216K–$232K | 24 |
| No level in the title | $182K | $150K–$240K | 37 |
CloudFormation salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $212K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $210K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸California | $206K | 48 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $191K | 103 |
Skills that pay more for CloudFormation roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulumi | $231K | +$40K | 20 |
| SOC 2 | $218K | +$26K | 15 |
| ISO 27001 | $212K | +$20K | 14 |
| Incident response | $211K | +$19K | 33 |
| TypeScript | $210K | +$18K | 12 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Harvey | $248K | 4 |
| Wiz | $228K | 3 |
| Fanatics Betting & Gaming | $225K | 3 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $193K | 3 |
| MongoDB | $187K | 3 |
| Illumio | $185K | 14 |
| Databricks | $182K | 7 |
| Applied | $182K | 3 |
| Tailscale | $175K | 3 |
Highest-paying open CloudFormation roles
All CloudFormation jobs- Software Engineer, Resilience EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KTerraformKubernetesDatadog
- Cloud Platform EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningLLM
- Engineering Manager, Cloud PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningCI/CD
- Global Solutions ArchitectRubrik · 🇺🇸USA , Remote$208K - $324KRemotePythonTerraformGCP
- Site Reliability EngineerGamma · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $310KGoPythonTypeScript
- Security EngineerGamma · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $310KPythonTypeScriptNode.js
- Senior Solutions Engineer, EnterpriseTailscale · 🇺🇸Remote (United States)$250K - $300KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDatologyai · San Mateo HQ$180K - $300KHybridPythonTerraformGCP
- Senior Software Engineer - Full StackLoancrate · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $300KRemoteSeniorTypeScriptReactPostgreSQL
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityMongoDB · 🇺🇸Austin; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; New York; San Fr…$151K - $297KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Security Engineer, InfrastructureScale AI · 🇺🇸New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC$238K - $297KTypeScriptNode.jsTerraform
- Staff Platform EngineerGrayscale · 🇺🇸Stamford, Connecticut, United States$195K - $295KLead and aboveDockerTerraformCI/CD
- Staff Platform Engineer, SecurityTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$205K - $295KLead and abovePythonTerraformAzure
- Software Engineer, BackendVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City$196K - $294KHybridTypeScriptJavaScriptReact
- Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability EngineerHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$238K - $290KLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Core InfrastructureHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$236K - $290KLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Cloud InfrastructureRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$188K - $283KSeniorRustGoPython
- Security Engineer, Product & Production InfrastructureWiz · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$207K - $283KRemoteGoPythonTerraform
- Solutions ArchitectModal · 🇺🇸New York$200K - $280KPythonDockerTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend InfrastructureSesame · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $280KLead and aboveTerraformPyTorchKubernetes
Questions about CloudFormation pay
- What is the average CloudFormation salary?
- $195K a year on average and $192K at the median, across 110 open CloudFormation 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 $168K to $225K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest CloudFormation pay?
- Harvey ($248K), Wiz ($228K), Fanatics Betting & Gaming ($225K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a cloudformation a high-paying job?
- The median CloudFormation posting advertises $192K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 10% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a cloudformation?
- A tenth of the postings offer $248K a year or more; the highest open CloudFormation role advertises up to $490K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the CloudFormation salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $192K a year is about $92 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,979 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $81 to $108 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for CloudFormation roles?
- Postings that ask for Pulumi (+$40K, 20 postings), SOC 2 (+$26K, 15 postings), ISO 27001 (+$20K, 14 postings) advertise more than the $192K median of all CloudFormation 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 CloudFormation roles at companies is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $168K to $225K. Counted from 110 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/cloudformation/
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