Storage systems salary: $215K median
The median advertised Storage systems salary is $215K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $178K to $256K: counted from 431 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $103 an hour or $17,917 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $314K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Storage systems jobs
$215Kmedian advertised salary
$178K – $256Kmiddle half of roles
$224Kaverage advertised salary
431roles counted
Storage systems salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $255K, 23% more than senior roles ($207K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $207K | $186K–$230K | 136 |
| Lead and above | $255K | $220K–$300K | 115 |
| No level in the title | $200K | $145K–$245K | 175 |
Storage systems salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $238K | 195 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $233K | 44 |
| 🇺🇸California | $224K | 249 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $215K | 406 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $204K | 55 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $165K | 21 |
Skills that pay more for Storage systems roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | $231K | +$16K | 64 |
| High-performance computing | $230K | +$16K | 92 |
| Java | $229K | +$14K | 48 |
| Go | $226K | +$11K | 107 |
| S3 | $225K | +$10K | 47 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 11 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 19 |
| Lambda | $321K | 14 |
| Roblox | $320K | 7 |
| Sentry | $320K | 5 |
| Vercel | $260K | 3 |
| xAI | $255K | 4 |
| Baseten | $248K | 5 |
| Gamma | $245K | 3 |
| Together AI | $232K | 4 |
| Elastic | $232K | 4 |
| Cloudflare | $230K | 8 |
| Crusoe | $228K | 16 |
| Databricks | $226K | 15 |
| Pure Storage | $225K | 41 |
| Qumulo | $220K | 16 |
| 1 Arc Power | $220K | 3 |
| Astera Labs | $212K | 7 |
| Dark Wolf Solutions | $212K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 14 |
| ClickHouse | $208K | 5 |
| MongoDB | $195K | 4 |
| SK hynix memory solutions America Inc. | $195K | 3 |
| Trm Labs | $195K | 4 |
| Anduril Industries | $194K | 22 |
Highest-paying open Storage systems roles
All Storage systems jobs- Research Engineer, DiscoveryAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KDockerGCPPyTorch
- Technical Lead - Training Runtime, Data(set) MovementOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$380K - $500KHybridLead and aboveRustPythonC++
- Global Client Director (Media, Entertainment, Gaming, & Sports)Qumulo · 🇺🇸Los Angeles (remote)$400K - $500KRemoteLead and aboveSplunkAccount-based marketingHigh-performance computing
- Staff+ Software Engineer, DatabasesAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLead and aboveSQLPostgreSQLGCP
- EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$287K - $485KHybridPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure StorageLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveRustC++Machine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer - ComputeLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Engineering Director, StorageRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$399K - $458KLead and aboveMessage queuesIncident responseStorage systems
- Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)Sentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$300K - $450KHybridLead and aboveStorage systems
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KHybridLead and aboveSnowflakeAWSInfrastructure as code
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, PlatformSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$260K - $400KHybridLead and aboveTerraformGCPKafka
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)Baseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KHybridMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data LifecycleDecagon · 🇺🇸New York City$200K - $400KLead and abovePythonLLMAI agents
- Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing InfrastructureInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonTerraformLinux
- Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & StorageRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveC++C#GCP
- Research Scientist / Engineer – Training InfrastructureLuma AI · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA$195K - $395KHybridPyTorchLinuxCUDA
- Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructurePatreon · Remote$232K - $386KRemoteLead and abovePythonJavaSQL
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend PlatformPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$258K - $386KHybridLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Principal Software Engineer, Product EngineeringDropbox · 🇺🇸Remote - US: All locations$228K - $385KRemoteLead and aboveLLMAI agentsStorage systems
- Director of Product Management, ObservabilityElastic · 🇺🇸United States$200K - $379KLead and abovePrometheusElasticsearchOpenTelemetry
Questions about Storage systems pay
- What is the average Storage systems salary?
- $224K a year on average and $215K at the median, across 431 open Storage systems 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 $178K to $256K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Storage systems pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), OpenAI ($356K), Lambda ($321K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a storage systems a high-paying job?
- The median Storage systems posting advertises $215K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 24% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a storage systems?
- A tenth of the postings offer $314K a year or more; the highest open Storage systems role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Storage systems salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $215K a year is about $103 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,917 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $86 to $123 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Storage systems roles?
- Postings that ask for Rust (+$16K, 64 postings), High-performance computing (+$16K, 92 postings), Java (+$14K, 48 postings) advertise more than the $215K median of all Storage systems postings with pay.
- What does an entry-level storage systems make?
- 5 junior and intern Storage systems postings state pay, with a median of $130K a year ($63 an hour).
- 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 Storage systems roles at companies is $215K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $178K to $256K. Counted from 431 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/storage-systems/
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