# Site reliability engineer salary: $157,000–$230,000 a year

Every number below comes from 433 tracked live postings whose title matches "site reliability engineer". No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=149 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median site reliability engineer posting offers $157,000–$230,000 a year (n=149).
- 22.4% of the 433 live postings matching "site reliability engineer" are remote.
- Builds AI (AI Level 4) site reliability engineers list $165,000–$265,000, vs $151,500–$229,000 at Little AI (AI Level 1).

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 0 | not enough data |
| Mid-level | 30 | $125,000–$184,800 |
| Senior | 95 | $165,000–$243,000 |
| Lead | 18 | $207,050–$298,500 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 33 | $164,800–$248,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 116 | $151,500–$227,300 |

## Companies hiring site reliability engineers

- [SpaceX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/spacex) (35)
- [LSEG](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/lseg) (29)
- [Okta](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/okta) (21)
- [Cisco](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/cisco) (14)
- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (14)
- [Anduril Industries](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anduril-industries) (13)
- [MongoDB](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/mongodb) (11)
- [RELX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/relx) (10)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "site reliability engineer", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 149 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 Do not cite as a national average.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 November 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 149 live US postings for site reliability engineers with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $157,000–$230,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

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

22.4% of the 149 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

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

In this sample, 22 postings build AI and 367 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/site-reliability-engineer

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/site-reliability-engineer. Measured November 2026.

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