Infrastructure as code salary: $202K median
The median advertised Infrastructure as code salary is $202K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $174K to $240K: counted from 1,110 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $97 an hour or $16,833 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $284K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Infrastructure as code jobs
$202Kmedian advertised salary
$174K – $240Kmiddle half of roles
$210Kaverage advertised salary
1,110roles counted
Infrastructure as code salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $237K, 22% more than senior roles ($195K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $195K | $174K–$216K | 413 |
| Lead and above | $237K | $208K–$274K | 271 |
| No level in the title | $192K | $156K–$230K | 422 |
Infrastructure as code salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $228K | 349 |
| 🇺🇸California | $214K | 468 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $209K | 195 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $203K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $202K | 79 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 1,011 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $192K | 45 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $187K | 29 |
| 🇺🇸Austin, TX | $187K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $187K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $185K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $176K | 50 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $174K | 36 |
Skills that pay more for Infrastructure as code roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 17 |
| Mercor | $360K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 16 |
| Lambda | $330K | 9 |
| Suno | $320K | 3 |
| Sentry | $315K | 4 |
| Decagon | $300K | 4 |
| Inferact | $300K | 3 |
| Replit | $288K | 7 |
| Figma | $280K | 3 |
| Sierra | $279K | 4 |
| $276K | 3 | |
| Twenty | $276K | 11 |
| $271K | 3 | |
| Scale AI | $268K | 11 |
| Rubrik | $266K | 3 |
| Harvey | $263K | 19 |
| Kraken | $260K | 3 |
| Affirm | $260K | 5 |
| Attentive | $260K | 3 |
| Vercel | $260K | 5 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 3 |
| Illumio | $256K | 4 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Roblox | $252K | 7 |
Highest-paying open Infrastructure as code roles
All Infrastructure as code jobs- Software Engineer, Research ProductivityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $625KMachine LearningInfrastructure as code
- Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)OpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$295K - $536KLinuxCI/CDKubernetes
- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KHybridGoPythonTerraform
- Principal Product Manager - ConsoleLambda · Bellevue Office$338K - $500KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningKubernetesInfrastructure as code
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer, Applied AI - SystemsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $500KTerraformLLMGraphQL
- Staff Distributed Systems EngineerFomo Labs · 🇺🇸New York City$300K - $500KLead and aboveGoTypeScriptNode.js
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Director, Software EngineeringTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$224K - $470KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLinux
- Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineer - TS/SCI (CI Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Fort Meade, MD$192K - $455KPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KHybridLead and aboveTerraformAirflowdbt
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeAWSInfrastructure as code
- Product Engineer, Personal AIRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KRustPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, PlatformSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$260K - $400KHybridLead and aboveTerraformGCPKafka
- Senior Software Engineer, Developer PlatformDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptCI/CD
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
Questions about Infrastructure as code pay
- What is the average Infrastructure as code salary?
- $210K a year on average and $202K at the median, across 1,110 open Infrastructure as code 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 $174K to $240K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Infrastructure as code pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), Mercor ($360K), OpenAI ($356K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an infrastructure as code a high-paying job?
- The median Infrastructure as code posting advertises $202K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 16% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an infrastructure as code?
- A tenth of the postings offer $284K a year or more; the highest open Infrastructure as code role advertises up to $625K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Infrastructure as code salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $202K a year is about $97 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,833 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $84 to $115 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Infrastructure as code roles?
- Postings that ask for Rust (+$18K, 126 postings), LLM (+$17K, 214 postings), SOC 2 (+$14K, 150 postings) advertise more than the $202K median of all Infrastructure as code 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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