# Platform engineer salary: $190,625–$270,875 a year

Every number below comes from 147 tracked live postings whose title matches "platform engineer". No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=56 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median platform engineer posting offers $190,625–$270,875 a year (n=56).
- 51% of the 147 live postings matching "platform engineer" are remote.
- Level 4 platform engineers (building AI systems) list $208,000–$293,500, vs $183,000–$265,000 at Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Junior | 0 | not enough data |
| Mid-level | 4 | $176,500–$228,500 |
| Senior | 31 | $180,000–$250,000 |
| Lead | 17 | $223,000–$297,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 28 | $190,625–$257,500 |
| On-site / hybrid | 28 | $191,500–$277,000 |

## Companies hiring platform engineers

- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (9)
- [Elastic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/elastic) (5)
- [Faire](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/faire) (5)
- [Mollie](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/mollie) (5)
- [Adobe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adobe) (4)
- [Adyen](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adyen) (4)
- [Legora](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/legora) (4)
- [Airwallex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airwallex) (3)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "platform engineer", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 56 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page — below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: postings at tech companies tracked by Level. Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Platform engineer salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median platform engineer salary?**

Across 56 live US postings for platform engineers with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $190,625–$270,875 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many platform engineers jobs are remote?**

51% of the 56 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 26 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 88 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/platform-engineer