Kubernetes Engineer Salary

Based on 4 Kubernetes listings with published compensation (17 total jobs)

$287k
Average
$170k
Low Posted
4
With Salary
$485k
High Posted
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Kubernetes engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $170k to $485k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Kubernetes features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 4 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 17 total open Kubernetes roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

mid
8 jobs
$225k avg
lead
5 jobs
$445k avg
senior
4 jobs
$240k avg

Top Paying Companies for Kubernetes

Kubernetes Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA / Remote
2 jobs
$232k avg
London, UK
2 jobs
San Francisco, CA
2 jobs
$445k avg
Bristol, UK
2 jobs
Las Vegas, Nevada
1 jobs
Remote
1 jobs
Romania
1 jobs
San Francisco, CA / Toronto / Remote
1 jobs
$240k avg
Tokyo, Japan
1 jobs
United States
1 jobs

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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