GKE salary: $220K median
The median advertised GKE salary is $220K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $185K to $252K: counted from 61 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $106 an hour or $18,333 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $288K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll GKE jobs
$220Kmedian advertised salary
$185K – $252Kmiddle half of roles
$222Kaverage advertised salary
61roles counted
GKE salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸California | $250K | 31 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $249K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $220K | 57 |
Skills that pay more for GKE roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Networking protocols | $280K | +$60K | 6 |
| Operating systems | $274K | +$54K | 6 |
| Machine Learning | $268K | +$48K | 6 |
| Linux | $254K | +$34K | 14 |
| PostgreSQL | $250K | +$30K | 7 |
Top-paying companies
Highest-paying open GKE roles
All GKE jobs- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLinux
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Manager II, Engineering - Kubernetes PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US$177K - $365KRemoteKubernetesInfrastructure as codeEKS
- Security Engineer - Incident ResponseReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $360KHybridGoPythonGCP
- Senior Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $346KHybridSeniorGoPythonMachine Learning
- Site Reliability EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningKubernetes
- Security Engineer, CloudRogo · 🇺🇸New York City$270K - $330KTerraformGCPCI/CD
- Staff Software Engineer - Reliability (US Citizen OR Green Card Only)Rubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$218K - $328KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Cloud Security LeadReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KHybridLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- Cloud Platform ArchitectSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$245K - $325KRustGoPython
- VP, EngineeringYugabyte · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$280K - $310KLead and abovePythonJavaPostgreSQL
- Deployed Architect, Professional Services (San Francisco)LangChain · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$170K - $300KPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Deployed Architect, Professional Services (NYC)LangChain · 🇺🇸New York, NY$170K - $300KPythonTypeScriptTerraform
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure ComputeRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerFivetran · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States, AMER$232K - $290KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Security Engineer, Product & Production InfrastructureWiz · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$207K - $283KRemoteGoPythonTerraform
- Forward Deployed Engineering, PortworxPure Storage · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$230K - $282KLinuxCI/CDKubernetes
- Senior Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise SystemsAstranis · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $280KSeniorPythonPostgreSQLDocker
- Senior/Staff Platform EngineerCodeRabbit · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $280KHybridLead and aboveGoTypeScriptNode.js
- Partner Applied AI Engineer, Google CloudOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$197K - $278KHybridPythonGCPLLM
Questions about GKE pay
- What is the average GKE salary?
- $222K a year on average and $220K at the median, across 61 open GKE 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 $185K to $252K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GKE pay?
- Lambda ($288K), Replit ($288K), LangChain ($220K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a gke a high-paying job?
- The median GKE posting advertises $220K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 26% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a gke?
- A tenth of the postings offer $288K a year or more; the highest open GKE role advertises up to $465K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the GKE salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $220K a year is about $106 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,333 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $89 to $121 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for GKE roles?
- Postings that ask for Networking protocols (+$60K, 6 postings), Operating systems (+$54K, 6 postings), Machine Learning (+$48K, 6 postings) advertise more than the $220K median of all GKE 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 GKE roles at companies is $220K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $185K to $252K. Counted from 61 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/gke/
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