Uniswap veterans. We’re backed by top investors including Polychain, Tribe Capital, and DBA. Who you are As a full-time Lead DevOps Engineer, you like to be highly organized and have a great sense of prioritization. You’…
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DevOps Engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA
DevOps engineers build the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software quickly and safely. The work centers on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.
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$50–$131/hr
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A high-growth software company is seeking a Sales Engineer to support the sales force by providing technical expertise and conducting product demonstrations. The ideal candidate will have strong cloud knowledge, prior ex…
$150k - $200k
infrastructure startup building production-grade systems that power AI agents across popular messaging platforms. As a founding macOS DevOps Engineer (mid-level Member of Technical Staff), you'll be a core member of a sm…
AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer (ArcGIS/Esri Platform) Location: ~San Francisco, CA~ Duration: 6 months Seeking an experienced AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer to support, automate, and maintain critical geospatial applications and c…
$158k - $200k
Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix,... ...execute at scale. About the Role We’re looking for a DevOps / Systems Enginee…
Job Title: GCP Devops Engineer Location: Berkeley Height, NJ & SFO, CA (5days onsite) Duration: long term Type: Contract W2 Experience: 8+ Years Interview mode: In-Person Interview is mandatory for client Job Description…
$150k - $180k
raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator. The role We're looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4–5 years of experience to join our growing platform engineering team in San Fra…
$164k - $200k
Job Description Job Description Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Remote-based role that requires US-citizenship) About us Hyperproof... ...a deep understanding of Azure technologies. Your expertise in DevOps methodologies and…
$183k - $248k
hardware. To do this, we’re building the world's first AI hardware engineer. Founded in 2019, our platform enables anyone to go from idea... ...and that means everything around it has to just work. As a DevOps Engineer,…
debugging, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. • Strong production support, incident management,…
Job Description Job Description We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure with ideally 5+ years of experience to own and evolve the build, release, and runtime foundations at a fast-scaling voice AI c…
$164k - $205k
’s powered by the anime content we all love. Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime! About the role As a DevOps Engineer within the Infrastructure Engineering team, you are essential in automating and scali…
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What devops engineers earn in San Francisco
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $50–$71 | $105k–$147k |
| Mid level | $71–$101 | $147k–$210k |
| Senior | $98–$131 | $203k–$273k |
Adjusted for the San Francisco market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
AWS, GCP, or AzureKubernetes and DockerTerraform or other IaCCI/CD pipelinesLinux and shell scriptingPython or GoMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)Incident responseCost optimization
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built or improved.
Cover the stages, what you automated, and the measurable result — faster deploys, fewer failed releases. Numbers make this answer.
A deploy just took production down. What do you do?
Roll back first, diagnose second, communicate throughout. Then talk about prevention: canaries, health checks, smaller changes.
How do you manage infrastructure as code, and why does it matter?
Explain reproducibility, review, and drift prevention with a tool like Terraform. Mention how you handle state and secrets — that is where real experience shows.
How would you reduce a team's cloud bill?
Start with visibility (tagging, cost reports), then rightsizing, reserved capacity, and killing orphaned resources. A real example with a dollar figure is ideal.
How do you decide what to monitor and alert on?
Alert on symptoms users feel, not every metric. Talk about SLOs and reducing alert fatigue — mature answers focus on fewer, better alerts.
How do you roll out a risky infrastructure change?
Describe staging environments, incremental rollout, rollback plans, and communicating with affected teams before you touch anything.
How do you handle secrets in pipelines and applications?
Name a secrets manager, rotation, and least privilege, and the anti-pattern you are avoiding: credentials in code or CI variables sprayed everywhere.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.
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Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.
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Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.
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Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.
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Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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