Flink salary: $221K median
The median advertised Flink salary is $221K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $195K to $265K: counted from 159 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $106 an hour or $18,417 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $319K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Flink jobs
$221Kmedian advertised salary
$195K – $265Kmiddle half of roles
$230Kaverage advertised salary
159roles counted
Flink salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $251K, 19% more than senior roles ($210K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $210K | $200K–$224K | 55 |
| Lead and above | $251K | $225K–$290K | 50 |
| No level in the title | $201K | $172K–$265K | 54 |
Flink salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $255K | 72 |
| 🇺🇸California | $225K | 92 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $220K | 146 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $200K | 17 |
Skills that pay more for Flink roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dagster | $264K | +$44K | 15 |
| Trino | $255K | +$34K | 20 |
| Machine Learning | $247K | +$26K | 44 |
| Data governance | $239K | +$18K | 18 |
| Airflow | $235K | +$14K | 49 |
Top-paying companies
Highest-paying open Flink roles
All Flink jobs- Principal Engineer, Big Data PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$243K - $500KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse (Machine Learning)Anthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $485KLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KTerraformMachine LearningKafka
- Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & SystemsOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridPythonTypeScriptSQL
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data Product PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$209K - $429KRemoteLead and aboveAirflowData qualityData warehousing
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningKafkaAirflow
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, PlatformSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$260K - $400KHybridLead and aboveTerraformGCPKafka
- Senior Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & StorageRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveC++C#GCP
- Principal Software Engineer, Creator AnalyticsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Software Engineer, Context EngineSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructurePatreon · Remote$232K - $386KRemoteLead and abovePythonJavaSQL
- Director of EngineeringDataVisor · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$200K - $380KLead and abovePythonJavaC++
- Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376KGoPythonSQL
- Engineering Manager, Ray DataAnyscale · 🇺🇸San Francisco$267K - $375KPythonGCPAzure
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - MonetizationNextdoor · 🇺🇸US Remote$281K - $374KRemoteLead and abovePythonJavaKotlin
- Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureSuno · 🇺🇸Boston$229K - $364KLead and abovePythonTerraformMachine Learning
- Engineering Manager, Model InfrastructureHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$260K - $350KHybridAzureMachine LearningLLM
- Software Engineering Manager - Platform TeamDataVisor · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$180K - $350KPythonJavaC++
Questions about Flink pay
- What is the average Flink salary?
- $230K a year on average and $221K at the median, across 159 open Flink 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 $265K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Flink pay?
- OpenAI ($356K), Pinterest ($295K), Reddit ($276K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a flink a high-paying job?
- The median Flink posting advertises $221K 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 flink?
- A tenth of the postings offer $319K a year or more; the highest open Flink role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Flink salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $221K a year is about $106 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,417 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $94 to $127 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Flink roles?
- Postings that ask for Dagster (+$44K, 15 postings), Trino (+$34K, 20 postings), Machine Learning (+$26K, 44 postings) advertise more than the $221K median of all Flink 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 Flink roles at companies is $221K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $195K to $265K. Counted from 159 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/flink/
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