DevOps Engineer salary: $210K median
From 181 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$210Kmedian advertised salary
$184K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$222Kaverage advertised salary
181roles counted
DevOps Engineer salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $250K, 27% 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–$228K | 69 |
| Lead and above | $250K | $225K–$270K | 41 |
| No level in title | $201K | $168K–$250K | 69 |
DevOps Engineer salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $248K | 68 |
| 🇺🇸California | $238K | 91 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $210K | 176 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $205K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $198K | 19 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $391K | 4 |
| Anthropic | $324K | 6 |
| Roblox | $294K | 6 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| True Anomaly | $250K | 11 |
| Together AI | $245K | 3 |
| SambaNova | $201K | 4 |
| ClickHouse | $192K | 3 |
| Partiful | $188K | 3 |
| GitLab | $187K | 5 |
| Harvey | $182K | 3 |
| JFrog | $178K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $145K | 13 |
Highest-paying open DevOps Engineer roles
All DevOps engineer jobs- Pre-training Data Infrastructure EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$500K - $850KRustPythonMachine Learning
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards ResearchAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$350K - $500KPythonMachine LearningAI
- EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$287K - $485KPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Engineering Manager, Client Platform EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$401K - $445KTerraformLinuxCI/CD
- Director of Platform EngineeringPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLeadGCPAWS
- Infrastructure Engineer, Applied AIParadigm · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$250K - $400KKubernetesAI
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Platform Engineering LeaderEve · 🇺🇸San Francisco (Hybrid); San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)$300K - $400K
- Principal AI Infrastructure Engineer, Build PlatformRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLeadLLMAI
- Deployed Infrastructure EngineerSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KGoTerraformLLM
- Senior / Staff AI Platform EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$228K - $363KLeadPythonLLMAI
- Machine Learning Infrastructure EngineerCharacter.AI · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA$150K - $350KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Distinguished Engineer, Core DevOpsGitLab · 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United St…$250K - $349KRemoteLLMCI/CD
- Staff Platform EngineerCalendly · 🇺🇸Remote - US$239K - $347KRemoteLeadGoGCPLinux
- Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, AdsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLeadMachine LearningLLMAI
- Staff Frontend Platform EngineerHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$231K - $340KLead
- Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud FoundationsLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $340KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Principal Mission Cloud EngineerTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$230K - $340KLeadAzureCI/CDAWS
- Staff Data Infrastructure EngineerFaire · 🇺🇸New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA$246K - $339KLeadPythonJavaKotlin
- Sr. ML Infrastructure EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustPythonC++
Questions about DevOps Engineer pay
- What is the average DevOps Engineer salary?
- $222K a year on average and $210K at the median, across 181 open DevOps Engineer 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 $184K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest DevOps Engineer pay?
- OpenAI ($391K), Anthropic ($324K), Roblox ($294K), 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 DevOps Engineer roles at tech companies is $210K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $184K to $250K. Counted from 181 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/devops-engineer/
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