Engine Yard Salary

💰 $108K–$197K salary range

Median: $158K  ·  Based on 70 public Engine Yard job postings  ·  Updated September 9, 2026

This Engine Yard salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Engine Yard

• Director, Strategic Business Development – Fintech & Payments — $265K–$345K · Business Development
• Director, Strategic BD - Travel & TMCs — $265K–$345K · Business Development
• Director, Sales (Denver) — $282K–$340K · Outbound
• Director, Data Engineering — $224K–$310K · Data
• Director, Business Analytics — $209K–$290K · Data
• Principal Architect (Engineer) — $206K–$285K · Engineering
• Senior Director, Business Operations — $225K–$275K · Core People
• Senior Director, Client Operations — $192K–$266K · Client Operations
• Controller — $199K–$260K · Accounting
• Sr. Data Privacy & Risk Counsel — $183K–$253K · Legal

Engine Yard salary by department

• business development: $188K median (5 roles)
• product: $183K median (6 roles)
• growth: $172K median (9 roles)
• data: $172K median (5 roles)
• core people: $155K median (5 roles)
• expansion: $118K median (5 roles)
• outbound: $110K median (9 roles)

Engine Yard salary by seniority

• Junior: $110K median (5)
• Senior: $172K median (27)
• Staff: $210K median (7)

Engine Yard salary — lead & management

• Manager: $138K median (11)
• Director: $202K median (17)

Engine Yard salary by location

• Remote: $158K median (70 roles)

Remote work at Engine Yard

100% of Engine Yard's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Engine Yard looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Snowflake (6) · SQL (5) · Looker (5) · Dbt (3) · Product Roadmap (2) · Airflow (2) · Experimentation (2) · Tableau (2) · Prototyping (2) · AWS (2).

About Engine Yard

Engine Yard is Series C stage · 101–250 employees · founded 2006 · HQ Austin, TX. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Engine Yard

Roles typically ask for around 6 years of experience (up to 12+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 3 that do, Bachelor's and Master's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 100% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Engine Yard total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 4% of roles list a bonus; 100% include commission; common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Engine Yard hiring activity

Engine Yard has 70 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 70 public job postings with disclosed pay. 21 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (49 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 7 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does Engine Yard pay?
The median pay is $158K, with a typical range of $108K–$197K, based on 70 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Engine Yard?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Director, Strategic Business Development – Fintech & Payments, at $265K–$345K base.

Which team pays the most at Engine Yard?
The business development team, at a $188K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 70 public Engine Yard job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed September 9, 2026.

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