Senior DevOps Engineer at Chromatic
$155,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
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Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps engineering role focused on securing and scaling cloud infrastructure for a browser-based visual testing platform. Day-to-day work spans AWS infrastructure management with Terraform, hardening security posture (access controls, secrets management, vulnerability triage), embedding with product teams for security reviews, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Suits an experienced infrastructure engineer with a strong cloud security background who is comfortable with on-call responsibilities.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 17,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,200–25,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'DevOps engineer' with no seniority level in the title, but the 5+ year experience gates and scope of responsibilities (security posture ownership, architecture, on-call) support a Senior classification.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role BUILDS infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and secure systems (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/security posture ownership component that could lean 15-1244. The primary deliverable — writing and shipping IaC and tooling — tips the balance to 15-1252.
CircleCI and GitHub Actions are listed together as examples of CI/CD tooling under 'Demonstrable hands-on experience'; they are captured as a single preferred skill with alternatives rather than two separate entries, since the posting treats them interchangeably.
Orchestration tools are mentioned alongside Docker and CI/CD but no specific orchestrator (e.g. Kubernetes, ECS) is named; no skill was emitted for the generic phrase, but Kubernetes is included as a preferred skill given it is the dominant orchestrator in this context.
Tailscale is named as the specific zero-trust network access tool in use; it appears in a context/stack description ('we use Tailscale') rather than a hard-gate requirements block, so it is marked preferred.
MongoDB and PostgreSQL/MySQL appear under 'Nice to Haves' and are marked preferred accordingly.
The role is open to candidates in the mainland US or Canada; compensation is quoted in USD and the role is fully remote.
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