Site Reliability Engineer salary: $208K median

Lead roles advertise a median of $224K, 7% more than senior roles ($209K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

• PMember of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython2w
• SSoftware Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)Sierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KTerraformLLMCI/CD12mo
• WSenior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, LeadWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA$298K - $368KLeadC++2mo
• LSenior Site Reliability Engineer - StorageLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$267K - $356KSeniorGoPythonSQL3mo
• BSite Reliability EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KTerraformMachine LearningKubernetes6mo
• RSenior Staff SRE, Site ExperienceReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$232K - $326KRemoteLeadKafkaRedisKubernetes5d
• REngineering Manager, Site Reliability EngineeringReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KGCPKubernetesOpenTelemetry2w
• GSite Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Platforms — AMER (Intermediate to Senior Staff)GitLab · 🇨🇦🇺🇸Remote, Canada; Remote, US$126K - $314KRemoteLeadGoRubyTerraform4mo
• LSenior Site Reliability Engineer - SDNLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$240K - $312KSeniorGoPythonTerraform4mo
• WSRE Manager, Vehicle SoftwareWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$276K - $311KLinux6w
• WStaff SRE, Incident ManagementWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$276K - $311KLeadGoPythonTerraform2d
• GSite Reliability EngineerGamma · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $310KGoPythonTypeScript12mo
• OManager, Site Reliability EngineeringOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, C…$204K - $306KTerraformMachine LearningCI/CD4mo
• RStaff Site Reliability Engineer, AdsReddit · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$217K - $304KLeadGoPythonKafka6mo
• MStaff Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityMongoDB · 🇺🇸Austin; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; New York; San Fr…$151K - $297KLeadRustPythonC++10mo
• RSenior Site Reliability Engineer, ComputeRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorJavaC#Kubernetes4mo
• FSenior Staff Site Reliability EngineerFivetran · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States, AMER$232K - $290KLeadGoPythonJava2mo
• HStaff Software Engineer, Site Reliability EngineerHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$238K - $290KLeadGoPythonTerraform11mo
• SSr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$165K - $280KSeniorPythonJavaC#3mo
• PStaff Software Engineer, Observability/Site ReliabilityPsiQuantum · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$165K - $277KLeadRustGoPython3w

What is the average Site Reliability Engineer salary?

$204K a year on average and $208K at the median, across 110 open Site Reliability Engineer 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 $170K to $224K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Site Reliability Engineer pay?

Wayve ($294K), Reddit ($260K), Okta ($218K), 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.