Serverless salary: $226K median
The median advertised Serverless salary is $226K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $185K to $250K: counted from 229 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $108 an hour or $18,792 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $280K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Serverless jobs
$226Kmedian advertised salary
$185K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$222Kaverage advertised salary
229roles counted
Serverless salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $240K, 24% more than senior roles ($193K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $193K | $170K–$218K | 82 |
| Lead and above | $240K | $227K–$270K | 70 |
| No level in the title | $230K | $182K–$250K | 77 |
Serverless salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $230K | 66 |
| 🇺🇸California | $230K | 71 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $222K | 207 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $212K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $210K | 33 |
Skills that pay more for Serverless roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI agents | $254K | +$28K | 24 |
| AI | $240K | +$15K | 25 |
| LLM | $238K | +$12K | 71 |
| Rust | $230K | +$4K | 31 |
| PostgreSQL | $230K | +$4K | 32 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 3 |
| Vercel | $260K | 3 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Baseten | $248K | 3 |
| Maven Clinic | $246K | 4 |
| Modal | $245K | 8 |
| Render | $242K | 36 |
| Cloudflare | $230K | 14 |
| Samsara | $230K | 5 |
| Temporal | $222K | 3 |
| Databricks | $221K | 20 |
| Anduril Industries | $213K | 3 |
| Finvari | $212K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $207K | 5 |
| RunPod | $202K | 4 |
| Elastic | $193K | 12 |
| ClickHouse | $190K | 3 |
| Partiful | $188K | 3 |
| Fastly | $187K | 4 |
| Chainguard | $185K | 6 |
| Aviatrix | $174K | 11 |
| Judi Health | $158K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Serverless roles
All Serverless jobs- Senior Director Digital Native, Customer EngineeringCloudflare · Hybrid$326K - $513KHybridLead and aboveServerlessDNSSD-WAN
- Software Engineer, Applied AI - Environments PlatformMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $500KTerraformLLMAirflow
- Director, Growth Sales (AI & Digital Natives)Cloudflare · Hybrid$378K - $496KHybridLead and aboveAIServerlessDNS
- Software Engineer, SandboxingAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $485KRustC++GCP
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App InfrastructureAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Lakebase Associate Director- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$292K - $402KLead and abovePostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Lakebase Associate Director, Healthcare & Life SciencesDatabricks · 🇺🇸Central - United States; Northeast - United States; South…$292K - $402KLead and abovePostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Member of Technical Staff, Performance and ScaleInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KRustGoC++
- Vice President, Product Management, Managed AICrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$345K - $385KLead and aboveAgileAIReinforcement learning
- Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇺🇸United States$200K - $379KLead and aboveAIElasticsearchVector databases
- Strategic Account Executive - United StatesAviatrix · 🇺🇸United States$321K - $378KKubernetesGenerative AIServerless
- SOC EngineerReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $374KHybridGoPythonGCP
- Senior / Staff Infrastructure Security EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸NYC$277K - $364KLead and aboveGCPAzureKubernetes
- Director of Engineering, ComputeTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$214K - $352KRemoteLead and aboveGCPKubernetesAWS
- Member of Technical Staff - Research, InferenceModal · 🇺🇸New York$150K - $350KPythonLLMFine-tuning
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Bare Metal InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $350KTerraformLinuxKubernetes
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Inference Platform - USAInworld AI · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, USA$280K - $350KHybridLead and aboveRustGoJava
- Systems Engineering ManagerModal · 🇺🇸New York$275K - $330KRustJavaC++
- Software Engineer - Training ProductBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridMachine LearningPyTorchKubernetes
- Software Engineer - GPU Networking & Distributed SystemsBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridRustPythonC++
Questions about Serverless pay
- What is the average Serverless salary?
- $222K a year on average and $226K at the median, across 229 open Serverless 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 $185K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Serverless pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), Vercel ($260K), EarnIn ($254K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a serverless a high-paying job?
- The median Serverless posting advertises $226K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 30% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a serverless?
- A tenth of the postings offer $280K a year or more; the highest open Serverless role advertises up to $513K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Serverless salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $226K a year is about $108 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,792 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $89 to $120 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Serverless roles?
- Postings that ask for AI agents (+$28K, 24 postings), AI (+$15K, 25 postings), LLM (+$12K, 71 postings) advertise more than the $226K median of all Serverless 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 Serverless roles at companies is $226K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $185K to $250K. Counted from 229 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/serverless/
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