JobFrame · INFRAS.INFRASTR5562.P6
Infrastructure, DevOps & SRE · Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
P6 · P6 — Principal Professional
Median pay · United States
$188,314
$147,937 – $239,712 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Median pay
$188,314
$147,937–$239,712
Level
P6
Super-function
technology
Demand-heat
cool
-4.2% growth
Summary
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: designs, builds, and operates the underlying cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure landing zones, VPC networking, virtualization) and internal developer platforms (self-service IDPs) that software teams build on. Distinct from the sibling SRE focus (which centers on reliability SLOs, on-call rotations, and incident response as its primary mandate) and from a pure DevOps tooling focus — this focus owns the platform-as-product surface (Terraform/CloudFormation modules, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD foundations) and the coherent architecture into which dozens of services fit.
This level — P6 P6 — Principal Professional
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
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