Ask HN: How much do you make as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

I want to get an idea of the average compensation (salary + bonus) that SREs are making in the Bay Area. Do you have junior/mid/senior level experience? Are you working for a startup or a large established company?

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thanks for the tip, I updated the title

I've been working professionally as an engineer for almost 5 years, the past two in dedicated DevOps / SRE capacities. At my current firm, which is a large global company, I make 150k/yr + variable bonus (usually ~%20).

This is in NYC. I kind of hate the work, though. Would much prefer to go back to a pure programming role as I miss the problem solving and analytical aspect of coding. SRE is a lot of plumbing and then twiddling config files or sitting on the line with cloud support. But it is cool to bring up huge clusters at the click of a button.