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Stride Search Inc.

DevOps Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

$62 - $84.75/hr

Deployment automation experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt Stack * Work with small, tightly knit product teams that function cohesively to move as quickly as possible * Determination to provide ...

Forhyre

Cloud Service Reliability Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$61.50 - $81.50/hr

Deploys, supports and monitors new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks ... Product does not really matter (any of Puppet, Chef, Fabric, Ansible, Salt is fine) * Proven ...

Forhyre

Cloud Service Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$67.25 - $89.25/hr

Deploys, supports and monitors new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks ... Product does not really matter (any of Puppet, Chef, Fabric, Ansible, Salt is fine) * Proven ...

Forhyre

Cloud Service Reliability Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

$67 - $89/hr

Deploys, supports and monitors new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks ... Product does not really matter (any of Puppet, Chef, Fabric, Ansible, Salt is fine) * Proven ...

Jj

Sr. DevOps Engineer - Shockwave Medical

Santa Clara, CA

$152K - $196K/yr

  • Retirement

  • PTO

... Salt, containerization technologies like Podman, and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes ... Perform regular maintenance, updates, and optimizations of the technology stack, including ...

Centrify

Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$67 - $89/hr

... such as ELK stack, Nagios, Prometheus, Qualys, Dome9, etc. • Working knowledge of scripting ... salt, chef, etc. • Experience with some of the DevOps standard tools such as docker, Cloudera ...

cosm

General Interest - Internship

Chadds Ford, PA

Salt Lake City, UT Join our Engineering team and dive into immersive software development. You could work on anything from QA and media playback to full-stack tools and hardware integrations. Expect ...

Zoox

Platform Engineer

Foster City, CA · On-site

$165K - $208K/yr

  • Medical

  • Life

  • PTO

Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, open-telemetry, grafana dashboards ... Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt ...

Zoox

Platform Engineer

Foster City, CA

$165K - $208K/yr

Experience building observability stack, instrumentation, open-telemetry, grafana dashboards ... Experience writing and managing infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Salt ...

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As of Aug 17, 2026, the average hourly pay for salt stack in California is $58.48, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $48.65 and $67.36 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Salt Stack vs Configuration Management Engineer?

AspectSalt StackConfiguration Management Engineer
Primary RoleAutomates infrastructure management using SaltStackDesigns, implements, and maintains configuration management systems
Skills & CertificationsKnowledge of SaltStack, scripting, Linux/Unix, cloud platformsKnowledge of configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), scripting, Linux/Unix
Work EnvironmentDevOps teams, cloud environments, data centersIT operations, DevOps teams, cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Industry UsageUsed for automation and orchestration in IT infrastructureUsed for managing system configurations across servers and environments

Salt Stack professionals focus on automating infrastructure tasks with SaltStack, while Configuration Management Engineers design and maintain systems using various configuration tools. Both roles require scripting skills and work in similar environments, but Salt Stack specialists are more focused on automation with SaltStack specifically.

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Infographic showing various Salt Stack job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 85% Full Time, 6% Part Time, 2% Temporary, 5% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 85% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $121,648 per year, or $58.5 per hour.

DevOps Engineer

Stride Search Inc.

Sunnyvale, CA

$62 - $84.75/hr

Full-time

Posted 21 days ago

Job description

We are looking for extraordinary infrastructure engineers to build a world class cloud platform that scales to millions of users. You must have experience building key portions of a highly scalable infrastructure using Amazon AWS and should know EC2, S3, EMR like the back of your hand. You must enjoy working in a fast paced startup and enjoy wearing multiple hats to get the job done.

Responsibilities

  • Manage AWS server farm
  • Own AWS infrastructure automation and support.
  • Own production deployments in multiple AWS environments
  • Responsible for building automation tools for deployment and high availability environment.
  • Create monitoring and reporting infrastructure for AWS environment.
  • Create tools to automate support tasks.
  • Optionally work on developing backend components
  • Secure AWS environment using industry best practices
  • Cost estimations and reducing AWS environment costs

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related field (math, physics, engineering)
  • 3+ years of experience in maintaining infrastructure system/devops
  • Enjoy playing with tech like nginx, haproxy, postgres, AWS, ansible, docker, nagios, or graphite
  • Deployment automation experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt Stack
  • Work with small, tightly knit product teams that function cohesively to move as quickly as possible
  • Determination to provide reliable and fault tolerant systems to the application developers that consume them
  • Experience in developing Java/C++ backend systems is a huge plus
  • Be a strong team player

Preferred

Deep working knowledge of Linux servers and networked environments Thorough understanding of distributed systems and the protocols they use, including TCP/IP, RESTful APIs, SQL, NoSQL Experience in managing a NoSQL database (Cassandra) is a huge plus

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