Cloud Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What Cloud Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$220,000
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$190k – $263.1k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
45.7%
896 of 1,961 roles
Live roles
1,961
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Research Engineer, Environment Scaling
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems
Research Engineer, Discovery
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Product Manager, Developer Productivity
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
OpenAI
|
$307,500 | 69 |
Databricks
|
$195,500 | 46 |
|
Anthropic
|
$362,500 | 44 |
| SA Scale AI | $243,000 | 30 |
Okta
|
$230,500 | 17 |
Airwallex
|
$216,250 | 16 |
Checkr
|
$201,500 | 15 |
Commure
|
$200,000 | 14 |
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How much do Cloud Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Cloud Engineer roles in San Francisco is $220,000 per year. Most pay falls between $190,000 (25th percentile) and $263,125 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $160,000 to $312,500.
These figures are computed live from 1,961 active Cloud Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 896 (45.7%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid Cloud Engineer roles in San Francisco include Anthropic and Mercor.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.