Salary: $95,000 - 95,000 per year Requirements: Over 3 years of experience in DevOps engineering Proficient in DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes Familiarity with scripting languages including Python an…
Engineering & IT · San Francisco, CA
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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Infrastructure ecosystem, including Identity & Access Management, API Gateway, and automated onboarding services.Senior Principal Software Engineers are:Technical experts that help accelerate adoption of the very best en…
recovery, and operation across multiple cloud environments.TDP SQL is Atlassian’s managed relational database platform. It gives engineering teams a supported way to build applications on relational databases without hav…
audience, narrative, launches, programming, acquisition, and post-event activation into a cohesive GTM motion.You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be comfortable getting technical. You can sit with Product an…
$170k - $200k
by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries... ...to help us move even faster.Position SummaryForward Deployed Engineers work em…
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and investment management company. Falcon is JLL's developer platform: the CI/CD, developer portal, and dependency tooling every engineering team here builds on, across every kind of app and service. Agents are where it'…
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Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world's leading life sciences companies to reimagine how their commercial, medical, and field organiz…
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Position Summary AI & Engineering/ EaaS - DevOps Engineer IIIBuild and scale modern DevOps capabilities that help clients accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and modernize engineering operations. As a Senior Consul…
executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC... ...SaaS architecture and scaling Qualifications Required 4+ years DevOps…
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architectural gaps, propose and drive solutions, and mentor other engineers as they build against your designs.Desired Skills and... ...accelerate design, development, and operationsStrong grasp of DevOps principles and…
fraud/abuse (Radar), payment optimizations (AuthBoost), Disputes, Authentication, and merchant analytics. We’re a mix of machine engineering engineers and full-stack software engineers impacting ~every Stripe transaction…
Job Overview We're seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between development and operations teams by designing, implementing, and main…
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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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