Principal DevOps Engineer at NBCUniversal
New York, NY
$180,000–$230,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role building and leading the Kubernetes-native infrastructure platform that underpins NBC's live broadcast production environments. Day-to-day work centers on writing Go-based operators and Crossplane providers, architecting multi-account AWS networking, managing GitOps delivery via Flux, and overseeing Puppet-driven configuration of bare-metal compute. The role also carries mentorship and technical leadership responsibilities, including authoring RFCs and setting engineering standards for the team.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,650 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 340–3,600
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (8)
The title says 'Principal DevOps Engineer' but the role's actual scope — 10+ years required, deep hands-on Go/Kubernetes/Crossplane engineering with team mentorship — aligns with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true Principal (org-wide technical authority). Advertised seniority reflects the title; assessed seniority reflects the requirements.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the primary day-to-day work is writing production Go services, building Kubernetes operators/controllers, and developing custom Crossplane providers — i.e., shipping code — not operating infrastructure someone else built.
STS, SSM, Secrets Manager, and S3 are listed alongside the other AWS services in the requirements block but are sub-services of AWS rather than separately marketed tools; they are captured under the AWS and EKS skills rather than emitted as individual entries.
Mimir and Alloy/Prometheus Node Exporter appear alongside Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry in the required observability block; they are sub-products/agents within the same stack and are covered by the Prometheus and Grafana entries.
PuppetDB, Hiera, and r10k are components of the Puppet ecosystem and are covered by the Puppet skill entry.
Preferred qualifications include VDI solutions (NICE DCV, Leostream, PCoIP), Crossplane function SDK, KUTTL, kind/colima, and open-source CNCF contributions — these are listed under the Preferred section and are not hard gates.
Salary range of $180,000–$230,000/year is stated as bonus eligible.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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