Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): salaries and requirements
As of September 28, 2026, the cvGO database holds 181 active jobs for “Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)”. Median pay among jobs that state it: US & Canada — $164,500 per year (n = 64). Most requested skills: Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering, observability.
Pay by region
| Region | Median | 25–75% | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| US & Canada | $164,500 per year | $125,600 per year – $215,100 per year | 64 |
| Europe | not enough data | 7 | |
| CIS | not enough data | 4 | |
Skills in requirements
- Kubernetes — 52%
- Site Reliability Engineering — 34%
- observability — 33%
- Python — 32%
- automation — 30%
- incident response — 30%
- Terraform — 29%
- CI/CD — 26%
- distributed systems — 26%
- AWS — 25%
- Go — 21%
- Prometheus — 20%
- SRE — 20%
- GCP — 19%
- Linux — 17%
- Grafana — 16%
- Docker — 15%
- SLOs — 15%
- Azure — 14%
- Ansible — 14%
Levels
- Junior — 1
- Middle — 68
- Senior — 89
- Lead — 20
- Head — 1
- Director — 2
FAQ
How much do “Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)” jobs pay?
US & Canada: median $164,500 per year, half of jobs between $125,600 per year and $215,100 per year (n = 64). Pay is stated in 41% of jobs.
Which skills do “Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)” jobs require?
Kubernetes — 52%, Site Reliability Engineering — 34%, observability — 33%, Python — 32%, automation — 30%. Share of jobs with parsed requirements (n = 132).
How many “Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)” jobs are remote?
Remote — 49%, hybrid — 12%, office — 39% (of 181 jobs that state the format).
Are there entry-level “Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)” jobs?
Intern and junior — 1 job (1%).
What level of English is required?
The level is stated in 93% of jobs; most often: C1 — 77%, B1 — 7%, B2 — 5%.
How we count
- Source: jobs in the cvGO database as of September 28, 2026: Global 64%, HeadHunter 19%, Telegram 10%, LinkedIn 6%.
- A job belongs to a profession by its title; one job may belong to several professions.
- Some jobs in the database match no profession in our catalogue and are not counted on these pages.
- Pay is the midpoint of the stated range or the single stated amount, in US dollars at a fixed rate (90 RUB per USD, table v1). Yearly amounts are divided by 12; if the period is not stated, it is inferred from the currency and amount; amounts outside 300–60,000 USD per month are excluded.
- A median is shown when a region has at least 10 jobs with pay.
- Skills and English are counted only for jobs with the employer’s own text.
- Duplicates of one job across sources are not merged.