Loki salary: $205K median
The median advertised Loki salary is $205K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $184K to $222K: counted from 50 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $99 an hour or $17,104 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $324K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Loki jobs
$205Kmedian advertised salary
$184K – $222Kmiddle half of roles
$211Kaverage advertised salary
50roles counted
Skills that pay more for Loki roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| PagerDuty | $324K | +$118K | 7 |
| Message queues | $324K | +$118K | 5 |
| ECS | $324K | +$118K | 5 |
| EC2 | $324K | +$118K | 5 |
| SQL | $256K | +$50K | 6 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Twenty | $324K | 7 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $193K | 9 |
| Grafana Labs | $192K | 11 |
Highest-paying open Loki roles
All Loki jobs- Forward Deployed Data Engineer – TS/SCI (Full Scope Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Chantilly, VA$192K - $455KGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - TS/SCI (CI Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Fort Meade, MD$192K - $455KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Engineering Manager, Observability EngineeringTemporal · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington$220K - $362KRemoteSeniorGCPAzureLLM
- Site Reliability EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningKubernetes
- Principal Software Engineer, Developer Tools (US West Coast)Docker · 🇺🇸United States$198K - $319KRemoteLead and aboveRustPythonJava
- Staff Software Engineer , ObservabilityReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$217K - $304KRemoteLead and aboveKubernetesPrometheusGrafana
- Engineering Manager - InfrastructureBitGo · 🇺🇸New York, United States$220K - $280KGoTerraformLinux
- Staff Software Engineer, Observability/Site ReliabilityPsiQuantum · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$165K - $277KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)Crusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$215K - $260KLead and aboveGoKafkaCI/CD
- Software Engineering Manager (Factory Data)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$191K - $254KGCPAzureKafka
- Sr. Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & StrikeAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Quincy, Massachusetts, United States$191K - $253KSeniorRustGoPython
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI InsightsCoreWeave · 🇺🇸New York, NY$180K - $250KLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Distributed Systems - AI Security & GovernanceOmnissa · 🇺🇸Atlanta, Georgia Office; Mountain View, California Office$141K - $250KSeniorGoPostgreSQLDocker
- Senior Software Engineer, ObservabilityAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - Seattle$158K - $245KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Partner | US | RemoteGrafana Labs · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$204K - $244KRemoteSeniorGCPKubernetesAWS
- Senior Software Engineer II, ObservabilityCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$182K - $242KSeniorPythonTerraformKafka
- Technical Lead - InfrastructureBitGo · 🇺🇸New York, United States$200K - $240KLead and aboveGoTerraformLinux
- Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | RemoteGrafana Labs · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$189K - $227KRemoteLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Senior DevOps EngineerTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA$150K - $225KSeniorPythonDockerTerraform
- Site Reliability EngineerApex Technology · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$155K - $195KGoPythonTerraform
Questions about Loki pay
- What is the average Loki salary?
- $211K a year on average and $205K at the median, across 50 open Loki 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 $184K to $222K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Loki pay?
- Twenty ($324K), CoreWeave ($212K), Anduril Industries ($193K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a loki a high-paying job?
- The median Loki posting advertises $205K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 18% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a loki?
- A tenth of the postings offer $324K a year or more; the highest open Loki role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Loki salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $205K a year is about $99 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,104 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $88 to $107 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Loki roles?
- Postings that ask for PagerDuty (+$118K, 7 postings), Message queues (+$118K, 5 postings), ECS (+$118K, 5 postings) advertise more than the $205K median of all Loki 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 Loki roles at companies is $205K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $184K to $222K. Counted from 50 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/loki/
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