Platform Engineer Salary

Based on 82 Platform listings with published compensation (187 total jobs)

$237k
Average
$200k
25th %ile
$230k
Median
$263k
75th %ile

Platform engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($263k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Platform features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Platform roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($200k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 82 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 187 total open Platform 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

senior
82 jobs
$222k avg
lead
56 jobs
$266k avg
principal
25 jobs
$269k avg
mid
21 jobs
$152k avg
junior
3 jobs
$191k avg

Top Paying Companies for Platform

Platform Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
78 jobs
$262k avg
New York, NY
17 jobs
$244k avg
Remote (US)
9 jobs
$237k avg
Irvine, CA
9 jobs
$173k avg
Mountain View, CA
8 jobs
$220k avg
London, UK
5 jobs
Boston, MA
4 jobs
$216k avg
Menlo Park, CA
4 jobs
$198k avg
Bangalore, India
4 jobs
Stockholm, Sweden
3 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. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Platform.

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