Principal DevOps Engineer (AI Enablement)
Guidacent
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Jul 1, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on owning the architecture of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and developer experience across multiple teams. The position involves setting technical standards and reusable delivery patterns, integrating AI coding tools into day-to-day engineering practice in a disciplined and cost-conscious way, and driving observability and AIOps strategies. Suits a hands-on principal-level engineer with 8+ years in DevOps or platform engineering who can also mentor and influence broadly.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Staff.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,550–9,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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).
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 (10)
Location is not stated anywhere in the posting; CBSA and state are left blank. The role appears to be remote-eligible given no location constraint is mentioned.
The title says 'Principal' but the JD explicitly frames this as a senior individual-contributor role with cross-team technical influence and org-wide standards ownership — scope that maps to Staff rather than a true Principal (org-wide authority, rare top-of-ladder). Seniority is set to Staff accordingly.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role is primarily about building and owning CI/CD platforms, IaC, and developer-experience tooling (software-development work, 15-1252), but it has a strong infrastructure/operations flavor that could support 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work — architecting delivery platforms, writing IaC, building pipelines — tips it to 15-1252.
The AI coding tools requirement (Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) is listed under Required Qualifications with firm language ('daily, hands-on use… as a core part of how they work'). Claude is used as the primary name; Cursor and Copilot are listed as alternatives since the JD explicitly names them as equivalents.
Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK) is listed as a single 'or' requirement in Required Qualifications; Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
People/team management is explicitly called out as 'a welcome plus but not a requirement' and sits under Preferred Qualifications — listed as preferred.
FinOps and ServiceNow appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
No compensation range is provided in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): People management.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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