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Site Reliability Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 309 live Site Reliability Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
309
Employers
188
Remote
20%
Typical pay
$125k–237k
Verified live (7d)
298

Pay is advertised by 67% of these postings (208 of 309 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$143k77
6–9 years$152k55
10+ years$165k14

Skills in demand

Across 304 site reliability engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Kubernetes73%
  • Python62%
  • Amazon Web Services61%
  • Linux47%
  • Terraform47%
  • Microsoft Azure34%
  • Google Cloud Platform33%
  • Grafana31%
  • Docker27%
  • Ansible24%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 233 postings stated one

0–2 years
5.6%
3–5 years
51%
6–9 years
35%
10+ years
8.6%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 176 postings stated one

Remote
35%
Hybrid
48%
On-site
16%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 71 postings stated one

Bachelor's
96%
Doctorate
4.2%

Employers hiring for this

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