Prometheus salary: $211K median
From 247 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$211Kmedian advertised salary
$178K – $241Kmiddle half of roles
$218Kaverage advertised salary
247roles counted
Prometheus salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $241K, 21% more than senior roles ($199K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $199K | $178K–$220K | 110 |
| Lead and above | $241K | $221K–$290K | 57 |
| No level in title | $199K | $152K–$235K | 80 |
Prometheus salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $221K | 119 |
| 🇺🇸California | $218K | 136 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $212K | 36 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $211K | 228 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $209K | 39 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 6 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 5 |
| Lambda | $310K | 7 |
| Sierra | $310K | 3 |
| Together AI | $278K | 4 |
| Roblox | $269K | 6 |
| $260K | 5 | |
| xAI | $255K | 3 |
| Baseten | $248K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $238K | 6 |
| Elastic | $232K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $230K | 7 |
| True Anomaly | $222K | 3 |
| LangChain | $220K | 5 |
| Coder | $220K | 3 |
| Docker | $217K | 4 |
| Box | $210K | 5 |
| CoreWeave | $204K | 29 |
| Temporal | $194K | 4 |
| Grafana Labs | $192K | 12 |
| Airwallex | $192K | 5 |
| Backblaze | $188K | 4 |
| Very Good Security | $188K | 6 |
| SpaceX | $162K | 13 |
| Databricks | $160K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Prometheus roles
All Prometheus jobs- Software Engineer, Resilience EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KTerraformKubernetesDatadog
- Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPCOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KGoPythonSQL
- Principal Engineer Capacity/ComputeAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$320K - $485KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Principal Engineer Capacity/ComputeAnthropic · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $485KRustGoC++
- Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure StorageLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KLeadRustC++Machine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KLeadPythonMachine LearningLinux
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial ProductsAdyen · 🇺🇸San Francisco$297K - $401KLeadPythonJavaSQL
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Principal Software Engineer, Creator AnalyticsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLeadGoPythonJava
- Principal Software EngineerAstronomer · 🇺🇸New York City$277K - $390KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)Sierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KTerraformLLMCI/CD
- Deployed Infrastructure EngineerSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KGoTerraformLLM
- Director of Product Management, ObservabilityElastic · 🇺🇸United States$200K - $379KLeadPrometheusElasticsearchOpenTelemetry
- Manager, Software Engineering - AI ObservabilityFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$258K - $376KMachine LearningLLMAI
- Senior Engineering Manager, Observability EngineeringTemporal · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington$220K - $362KRemoteSeniorGCPAzureLLM
- Principal Software Engineer, OrchestrationRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLeadGoPythonJava
- Principal Engineer - Perf and BenchmarkingCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$206K - $333KLeadLLMPyTorchCI/CD
Questions about Prometheus pay
- What is the average Prometheus salary?
- $218K a year on average and $211K at the median, across 247 open Prometheus postings at tech 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 $178K to $241K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Prometheus pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($356K), Sierra ($310K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- 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 Prometheus roles at tech companies is $211K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $178K to $241K. Counted from 247 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/prometheus/
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