Salary for Senior-level / Expert Platform Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Platform Engineer during 2025 is USD 143,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 24 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average senior-level / expert Platform Engineer salary lies between USD 100,900 and USD 190,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Platform Engineer
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
24
Top 10%
$ 240,000
Top 25%
$ 190,000
Median
$ 143,000
Bottom 25%
$ 100,900
Bottom 10%
$ 83,600

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Platform Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Platform Engineer job listings are Engineering, Python and AWS. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Engineering | 70 jobs Python | 66 jobs AWS | 55 jobs Machine Learning | 51 jobs Architecture | 49 jobs Pipelines | 46 jobs Security | 42 jobs Terraform | 40 jobs CI/CD | 40 jobs Kubernetes | 39 jobs Docker | 34 jobs DevOps | 29 jobs GCP | 27 jobs Azure | 27 jobs APIs | 26 jobs Computer Science | 25 jobs SQL | 24 jobs Airflow | 23 jobs Testing | 23 jobs Data pipelines | 22 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Platform Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Platform Engineer job listings are Career development, Equity / stock options and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 52 jobs Equity / stock options | 21 jobs Flex hours | 20 jobs Health care | 20 jobs Competitive pay | 20 jobs Startup environment | 17 jobs Salary bonus | 15 jobs Flex vacation | 11 jobs Team events | 11 jobs 401(k) matching | 6 jobs Parental leave | 6 jobs Medical leave | 6 jobs Wellness | 5 jobs Insurance | 5 jobs Gear | 4 jobs Transparency | 4 jobs Home office stipend | 3 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs Relocation support | 2 jobs Fitness / gym | 1 jobs

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