Microservices salary: $199K median
The median advertised Microservices salary is $199K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $171K to $227K: counted from 496 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $96 an hour or $16,604 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $266K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Microservices jobs
$199Kmedian advertised salary
$171K – $227Kmiddle half of roles
$203Kaverage advertised salary
496roles counted
Microservices salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 19% more than senior roles ($194K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $194K | $176K–$215K | 209 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $208K–$260K | 130 |
| No level in the title | $182K | $150K–$205K | 157 |
Microservices salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 158 |
| 🇺🇸California | $216K | 185 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $202K | 76 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $202K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 466 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $200K | 52 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta, GA | $190K | 15 |
Skills that pay more for Microservices roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| MySQL | $214K | +$15K | 50 |
| Incident response | $211K | +$12K | 52 |
| LLM | $208K | +$9K | 105 |
| C++ | $208K | +$9K | 63 |
| Go | $202K | +$3K | 186 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Block | $330K | 3 |
| Kong | $290K | 10 |
| Roblox | $269K | 19 |
| Nuro | $266K | 5 |
| Databricks | $248K | 15 |
| Together AI | $245K | 5 |
| Maven Clinic | $242K | 5 |
| Attentive | $242K | 4 |
| Toast | $230K | 6 |
| New Relic | $228K | 3 |
| Hinge Health | $228K | 5 |
| Plaid | $227K | 10 |
| Box | $223K | 3 |
| Docker | $223K | 4 |
| Okta | $220K | 11 |
| Anduril Industries | $220K | 9 |
| Illumio | $216K | 9 |
| BitGo | $209K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $208K | 6 |
| Airwallex | $206K | 4 |
| Datavant | $205K | 3 |
| Gemini | $204K | 3 |
| Coinbase | $202K | 5 |
| EvolutionIQ | $202K | 3 |
| Stripe | $200K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Microservices roles
All Microservices jobs- Director, Lakebase Sales Specialist- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$430K - $592KLead and aboveMicroservices
- Sr./Staff Backend Engineer - JavaOscilar · 🇧🇷Brazil - Remote$394K - $574KRemoteLead and aboveJavaDockerKafka
- Software Engineer, Resilience EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KTerraformKubernetesDatadog
- Lakebase Associate Director- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$292K - $402KLead and abovePostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Enterprise Account Executive, SoutheastKong · 🇺🇸Georgia, United States$320K - $400KRemoteLLMMicroservicesMEDDIC
- Enterprise Account Executive - LATAMKong · 🇺🇸Texas, United States$280K - $400KRemoteLLMEnglishSpanish
- Staff Backend EngineerFomo Labs · 🇺🇸New York City$300K - $400KLead and aboveTypeScriptReactMicroservices
- Principal Software Engineer - Compute (Kubernetes)Roblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveKubernetesMicroservices
- Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & StorageRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveC++C#GCP
- Staff Software Engineer, Cash App BankingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$264K - $395KLead and aboveJavaKotlinKafka
- Staff Software Engineer, Cash App BankingBlock · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States of America$264K - $395KLead and aboveJavaKotlinKafka
- Chief ArchitectLegion · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$300K - $385KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Principal Software Engineer, Tech LeadToast · 🇺🇸Remote, US$180K - $368KRemoteLead and aboveReactJavaKotlin
- Staff Software Engineer, Ads Agent InfraPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$208K - $365KRemoteLead and aboveLLMMicroservicesAI agents
- Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Offboard InfrastructureNuro · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California (HQ)$194K - $352KLead and aboveGoPythonC++
- Software Engineer, Privacy & Data GovernanceFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$150K - $350KRustGoPython
- Senior Staff Software EngineerEarnIn · 🇺🇸Mountain View, US$279K - $341KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity & TrustEarnIn · 🇺🇸Remote, US$239K - $341KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Sr. Software Engineer, X Developer PlatformxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorJavaScriptGCPAzure
- Sr. Software Engineer, X MoneyxAI · 🇺🇸New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustGoPython
Questions about Microservices pay
- What is the average Microservices salary?
- $203K a year on average and $199K at the median, across 496 open Microservices 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 $171K to $227K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Microservices pay?
- Block ($330K), Kong ($290K), Roblox ($269K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a microservices a high-paying job?
- The median Microservices posting advertises $199K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 15% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a microservices?
- A tenth of the postings offer $266K a year or more; the highest open Microservices role advertises up to $592K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Microservices salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $199K a year is about $96 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,604 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $82 to $109 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Microservices roles?
- Postings that ask for MySQL (+$15K, 50 postings), Incident response (+$12K, 52 postings), LLM (+$9K, 105 postings) advertise more than the $199K median of all Microservices 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 Microservices roles at companies is $199K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $171K to $227K. Counted from 496 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/microservices/
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