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Salary
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 23, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A fully remote DevOps/backend engineering role focused on designing, operating, and improving large-scale distributed infrastructure — including API gateways, load balancers, CI/CD pipelines, and high-throughput data pipelines using tools like Kafka and ClickHouse. The position spans backend service development, container orchestration with Kubernetes, database management, and observability. It suits an engineer with 5+ years of experience who can work autonomously across distributed teams on a security-oriented product.

Senior level · 5+ years · Remote

Must have (8)
Apache Kafka, Clickhouse or RabbitmqPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitmonitoring
Nice to have (2)
DjangoPuppet, Ansible or Salt

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 12,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,300–18,300

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Apache Kafka12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%CI/CD45%

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 (6)

The role is titled 'DevOps Engineer' but the accountabilities and requirements describe substantial backend software development (designing/building services, writing tests, feature development) alongside infrastructure work — the primary day-to-day work leans toward building and shipping software, hence Software Developers (15-1252) over Network/Systems Admins (15-1244).

The high-throughput data pipeline requirement lists Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, and RabbitMQ as interchangeable examples ('such as … or similar'); all three are captured under one skill with alternatives.

The posting requires 'strong proficiency in at least one high-level programming language' but names no specific language — no skill was emitted for this as it names no concrete technology.

Django is listed explicitly as 'a plus' (preferred).

Configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Salt) are listed as 'an advantage' (preferred), captured as one interchangeable skill.

No compensation figures are provided. The role is fully remote and open to candidates based anywhere worldwide, though the posting specifies the candidate should be 'based in United States'; no specific metro or state is given.

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