SRE salaries in San Francisco.
What SRE roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$205,000
median over time
Typical range
$165k – $239.4k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
53.8%
286 of 532 roles
Live roles
532
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate
Site Reliability Engineer
Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Principal Engineer, Compute Platform
Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products
Site Reliability Engineer, Frontier Systems Infrastructure
Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, AI Reliability
Staff Software Engineer - Managed Kubernetes
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Astranis
|
$175,000 | 30 |
Clearway Energy
|
$146,000 | 28 |
|
OpenAI
|
$292,000 | 15 |
incident.io
|
$170,000 | 11 |
Okta
|
$230,500 | 9 |
Harvey
|
$233,000 | 7 |
Samsara
|
$175,450 | 7 |
Benchling
|
$247,813 | 6 |
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How much do SRE roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for SRE roles in San Francisco is $205,000 per year. Most pay falls between $165,000 (25th percentile) and $239,375 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $132,500 to $275,000.
These figures are computed live from 532 active SRE roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 286 (53.8%) 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 SRE roles in San Francisco include OpenAI, Mercor, Pinterest and Anthropic.
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.