Platform Engineer salary: $200K median
The median advertised Platform Engineer salary is $200K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $242K: counted from 381 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $96 an hour or $16,667 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $275K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll platform engineer jobs
$200Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $242Kmiddle half of roles
$210Kaverage advertised salary
381roles counted
Platform Engineer salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $229K, 17% more than senior roles ($196K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $196K | $180K–$222K | 116 |
| Lead and above | $229K | $205K–$254K | 102 |
| No level in the title | $189K | $156K–$240K | 162 |
Platform Engineer salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $230K | 126 |
| 🇺🇸California | $222K | 153 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $220K | 55 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $214K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $203K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 361 |
Skills that pay more for Platform Engineer roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM | $222K | +$22K | 71 |
| Infrastructure as code | $212K | +$12K | 69 |
| PostgreSQL | $210K | +$10K | 40 |
| Go | $210K | +$10K | 93 |
| TypeScript | $205K | +$5K | 65 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $368K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $367K | 4 |
| Anthropic | $305K | 5 |
| AlphaSense | $264K | 5 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Brainco | $252K | 4 |
| Roblox | $249K | 6 |
| Baseten | $248K | 3 |
| SambaNova | $245K | 3 |
| Airspace Intelligence.com | $235K | 4 |
| True Anomaly | $230K | 7 |
| ATOMS | $220K | 3 |
| Nscale | $210K | 4 |
| Fanatics Betting & Gaming | $210K | 4 |
| Coinbase | $205K | 4 |
| Nuro | $200K | 3 |
| Captivation Software | $200K | 4 |
| Clera | $195K | 3 |
| Databricks | $194K | 4 |
| Anduril Industries | $194K | 8 |
| Partiful | $188K | 3 |
| K2 Space | $182K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $182K | 3 |
| GRVTY | $175K | 3 |
| Oneapp | $165K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Platform Engineer roles
All platform engineer jobs- Software Engineer, Plugin Developer PlatformOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$185K - $490KHybridAI agents
- Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $485K
- Software Engineer - Core PlatformElorian Ai Inc · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$300K - $450KRustPythonC++
- Engineering Manager, Client Platform EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$401K - $445KHybridTerraformLinuxCI/CD
- Engineering Manager, Core Cloud PlatformLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KHybridGoPythonMachine Learning
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform (LKS)Lambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KHybridMachine LearningKubernetesIncident response
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeAWSInfrastructure as code
- Director of Platform EngineeringPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLead and aboveGCPAWSIncident response
- Senior Software Engineer, Developer PlatformDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorPythonTypeScriptCI/CD
- Platform Engineering LeaderEve · 🇺🇸San Francisco (Hybrid); San Mateo, CA (Hybrid)$300K - $400KHybridVector databases
- Platform EngineerNormalComputing · 🇺🇸Mountain View$200K - $400KLinux
- Platform EngineerMoment · 🇺🇸New York, NY$200K - $400KGoAWSgRPC
- Platform EngineerAntimetal · 🇺🇸HQ - NYC$200K - $400KTypeScriptLLMCI/CD
- Principal AI Infrastructure Engineer, Build PlatformRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveLLMAIAI agents
- Director/ Senior Director, Lab Platform EngineeringLila Sciences · 🇺🇸Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA$232K - $390KLead and aboveKubernetes
- Manager II, Engineering - Kubernetes PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US$177K - $365KRemoteKubernetesInfrastructure as codeEKS
- Senior / Staff AI Platform EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$228K - $363KLead and abovePythonLLMAI
- IT Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineer, ChromeOSAnthropic · 🇺🇸Boston, MA; Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Franc…$325K - $360KRemotePythonTerraformLLM
- Principal Backend Programmer (Developer Platform)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$223K - $360KLead and aboveGoPythonGCP
- Senior Infrastructure/Platform EngineerSlash Financial · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office$250K - $350KSeniorTypeScriptSQLPostgreSQL
Questions about Platform Engineer pay
- What is the average Platform Engineer salary?
- $210K a year on average and $200K at the median, across 381 open Platform Engineer 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 $175K to $242K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Platform Engineer pay?
- Lambda ($368K), OpenAI ($367K), Anthropic ($305K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a platform engineer a high-paying job?
- The median Platform Engineer posting advertises $200K 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 platform engineer?
- A tenth of the postings offer $275K a year or more; the highest open Platform Engineer role advertises up to $490K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Platform Engineer salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $200K a year is about $96 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,667 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $84 to $117 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Platform Engineer roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$22K, 71 postings), Infrastructure as code (+$12K, 69 postings), PostgreSQL (+$10K, 40 postings) advertise more than the $200K median of all Platform Engineer 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 Platform Engineer roles at companies is $200K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $242K. Counted from 381 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/platform-engineer/
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