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Site Reliability Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 298 live Site Reliability Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
298
Employers
182
Remote
20%
Typical pay
$125k–238k
Verified live (7d)
286

Pay is advertised by 68% of these postings (202 of 298 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
0–2 years$125k11
3–5 years$142k76
6–9 years$152k52
10+ years$165k14

Skills in demand

Across 293 site reliability engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Kubernetes72%
  • Python62%
  • Amazon Web Services59%
  • Linux47%
  • Terraform46%
  • Microsoft Azure34%
  • Google Cloud Platform32%
  • Grafana31%
  • Docker27%
  • Ansible25%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 224 postings stated one

0–2 years
5.8%
3–5 years
51%
6–9 years
34%
10+ years
8.5%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 169 postings stated one

Remote
35%
Hybrid
49%
On-site
17%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 68 postings stated one

Bachelor's
96%
Doctorate
4.4%

Employers hiring for this

Currently open

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