Senior DevOps Engineer at MNTN
Austin, TX
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Jul 29, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A fully remote DevOps/Platform Engineering role on the team that owns MNTN's cloud infrastructure, centered on Google Cloud and Kubernetes (GKE). The engineer will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, internal developer tooling, GitOps automation, and infrastructure-as-code, while partnering with product engineering teams to improve developer experience, reliability, observability, and cloud cost efficiency.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,700–19,300
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).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role title is simply 'DevOps' with no seniority modifier, but the 5+ years requirement and the scope of responsibilities (platform design, FinOps, multi-environment IaC, internal developer portals) clearly support a Senior-level classification.
SOC classification required a judgment call: the role writes and ships substantial automation code (Python, TypeScript, Terraform/OpenTofu, GitOps tooling, IDP components), which points to 15-1252 Software Developers. However, it also carries meaningful infrastructure operations responsibilities (GKE cluster management, observability, incident response, IAM), making 15-1244 a plausible runner-up.
Terraform and OpenTofu are listed as interchangeable alternatives in the posting ('Terraform / OpenTofu'); they are captured as a single skill with OpenTofu in alternatives.
Argo Rollouts and Argo Workflows appear in the responsibilities section alongside ArgoCD and GitHub Actions (all under a CI/CD pipeline bullet), but only ArgoCD is reinforced in the requirements section. Argo Rollouts and Argo Workflows are marked preferred accordingly.
Terragrunt is explicitly called 'a plus' in the requirements section.
Experience with additional cloud providers beyond GCP is noted as a plus; no specific alternative cloud platform is named as required.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
The role is tagged #LI-Remote, confirming fully remote work.
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