Senior infrastructure, platform and SRE engineer salary in the San Francisco Bay Area

The median posted base pay for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area is $209K a year, from 533 open jobs at 250 companies. The middle half of the jobs is from $188K to $230K. One job in ten has posted pay above $271K.

Data of Nov 9, 2026. This is posted base pay, not total pay. It does not include stock or a bonus.

Median posted base pay: $209K
Middle half of the jobs: $188K to $230K
10th to 90th percentile: $169K to $271K
Open jobs with posted pay: 533
Companies: 250

Infrastructure, platform and SRE engineer pay by level in the San Francisco Bay Area

Posted base pay for infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the level in the job title. This page is about the senior level. A level needs 20 or more jobs with posted pay.

Level not stated612 jobs$219K$177K to $258K
Senior533 jobs$209K$188K to $230K
Staff284 jobs$240K$221K to $275K
Principal60 jobs$256K$227K to $319K
Director+54 jobs$274K$223K to $324K

Each band goes from the 10th to the 90th percentile. The darker part is the middle half of the jobs. The line is the median. This is posted base pay, not total pay.

Pay bands by level, infra, platform and SRE, Bay Area. Posted base pay in US dollars for each year.
Level	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th	Jobs with pay
Level not stated	$153K	$177K	$219K	$258K	$315K	612
Senior	$169K	$188K	$209K	$230K	$271K	533
Staff	$196K	$221K	$240K	$275K	$325K	284
Principal	$187K	$227K	$256K	$319K	$357K	60
Director+	$209K	$223K	$274K	$324K	$380K	54

Top-paying companies for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area

The companies with the highest median posted base pay for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. A company name opens its levels in the pay explorer.

1Lambda$299K10 jobs
2Roblox$269K16 jobs
3xAI$255K8 jobs
4Snowflake$244K6 jobs
5Waymo$238K8 jobs
6Nuro$236K6 jobs
7Cloudflare$230K8 jobs
8Muon Space$225K11 jobs
9Chime Financial, Inc$223K5 jobs
10Salesforce$216K11 jobs
11ATOMS Careers page$209K10 jobs
12Atoms$209K8 jobs
13Altruist$205K8 jobs
14Verkada$205K10 jobs
15Applied Intuition$205K5 jobs
16Zipline $205K5 jobs
17Databricks$196K11 jobs
18CoreWeave$191K19 jobs
19Crusoe$188K12 jobs
20Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies$174K6 jobs

The median posted base pay of each company for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. We use the middle point of each posted range. A company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay. This is posted base pay, not total pay.

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Other levels in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Other job types in the San Francisco Bay Area

How we compute these numbers

We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.

We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A role page needs 20 or more open jobs with posted pay. In the bar chart, a company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay.

The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.