Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Unite Us
$140,000–$175,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a product engineering organization and centers on designing, building, and running cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code, security controls, observability, incident response, and on-call support, alongside mentoring engineers and shaping DevOps standards. It suits someone with substantial cloud infrastructure and automation experience who can also provide technical leadership across teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,400–18,600
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 (6)
The role is titled 'Senior Software Engineer, DevOps' and emphasizes building and shipping infrastructure automation, IaC, and CI/CD systems — primary day-to-day work is writing and delivering code/tooling, which maps to Software Developers (15-1252) rather than systems administration (15-1244). However, the significant operational component (on-call, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning) makes 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
The JD lists 'Familiarity with the following technologies, with deep expertise in one or more' but the sentence is incomplete — no specific tools are enumerated in the posting text. No specific cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP), IaC tool (Terraform, Pulumi), or observability platform is named anywhere in the posting, so no tool-level skills beyond Python/Bash and Git could be extracted.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … preferred' and explicitly accepts 'equivalent practical experience,' so it is treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
Compensation is stated as a target hiring range of $140,000–$175,000/year; actual offer depends on skills, experience, and location.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): secrets 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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