# Site reliability engineer salary: $168,000–$250,000 a year

Every number below comes from 248 tracked live postings whose title matches "site reliability engineer". No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=66 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median site reliability engineer posting offers $168,000–$250,000 a year (n=66).
- 47.2% of the 248 live postings matching "site reliability engineer" are remote.
- Level 4 site reliability engineers (building AI systems) list $168,000–$265,125, vs $162,500–$249,000 at Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 1 | $98,000–$148,500 |
| Mid-level | 3 | $113,000–$171,600 |
| Senior | 41 | $168,000–$249,000 |
| Lead | 17 | $168,000–$260,000 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 23 | $165,000–$252,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 43 | $168,000–$249,000 |

## Companies hiring site reliability engineers

- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (23)
- [Okta](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/okta) (21)
- [MongoDB](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/mongodb) (16)
- [Doctolib](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/doctolib) (7)
- [Algolia](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/algolia) (6)
- [Zscaler](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/zscaler) (6)
- [Fivetran](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/fivetran) (5)
- [GitLab](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/gitlab) (5)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "site reliability engineer", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 66 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 Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.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.

## Site reliability engineer salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median site reliability engineer salary?**

Across 66 live US postings for site reliability engineers with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $168,000–$250,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many site reliability engineers jobs are remote?**

47.2% of the 66 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

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

In this sample, 19 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 200 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/site-reliability-engineer