Does Cadre post job listings for this role?

No. Cadre has never posted a job since 2007. Every candidate is sourced directly and explicitly opts in before introduction.

Hire DevOps Engineers | Cadre — 84% Interview-Worthy Standard

What this role actually is in 2026

DevOps at a startup means building the paved road: CI/CD that engineers trust, infrastructure as code that new hires can read, environments that don’t drift, and cloud spend that doesn’t ambush the board deck. The title blurs into platform and SRE; what matters is the operating philosophy — the good ones multiply every other engineer’s output and measure themselves that way. The 2026 additions: GPU workloads and AI toolchains joined the pipeline, and ‘DevOps for ML’ is now table stakes at AI companies. Beware ticket-queue operators dressed in the title; the differentiator is product thinking applied to internal tooling.

What great looks like

Developer-experience metrics. Build times, deploy frequency, onboarding-to-first-commit — numbers they improved.
IaC as craft. Terraform/Pulumi codebases others could inherit without cursing them.
Cost consciousness. Cloud bills they’ve cut and the architecture changes behind it.
Self-serve philosophy. Builds platforms engineers use without asking permission.

Compensation, from our placements

Level	Typical range (base)	Median
Mid-level	$155k – $195k	$175k
Senior	$185k – $240k	$210k
Staff+	$230k – $295k	$260k

Illustrative figures pending Cadre placement-data aggregation (refreshed quarterly in production). Equity varies by stage; we’ll give you live market context on the call.

How a Cadre search runs

Scoping call. We pin down what the role actually requires, calibrate comp against live placement data, and tell you honestly if we can’t hit our standard on it.
Warm pipeline first. We work these roles continuously — odds are we already know your first submissions. Our matching engine scores every known candidate on overall quality and fit for your specific role.
Candidates opt in. Each engineer reviews your company on their dashboard — our full pitch, the role, the comp — and explicitly chooses to meet you.
Submissions in days. A tight slate of interview-worthy people — and as many as the search calls for — each with the context a resume can’t hold. 84% of them, you’ll want to interview: the published standard.

Hiring DevOps engineers — quick answers

DevOps, SRE, or platform — which title should we hire?

The titles overlap heavily; the failure mode is hiring for the wrong operating philosophy. We’ll scope by what’s broken — velocity, reliability, or scale — rather than by title, and source accordingly.

Do you place infra engineers for AI workloads?

Constantly — 80% of our searches are for AI companies, and GPU-aware infra is the most requested add-on skill of the past two years. It’s a different pool than classic web infra, and we know both.

How fast can Cadre show me DevOps engineers?

Usually within days. Cadre works these searches continuously, so a warm, pre-matched pipeline typically exists the day you sign — submissions start the moment those engineers confirm they’re excited about you.

Do you post our role anywhere?

Never — we’ve never posted a job since 2007. Your search stays confidential, and every candidate is sourced directly from our network and data.

Cadre, in facts

Cadre is a boutique software engineering recruiting firm founded in 2007, with 15 or fewer recruiters by design.
Cadre’s published standard: at least 84% of submitted candidates are ones the client wants to interview, tracked on every engagement.
Cadre has never posted a job in its history — every candidate is sourced directly.
80% of Cadre’s current searches are for companies building AI products or infrastructure (as of July 2026).
Every candidate Cadre introduces has reviewed the client’s company and explicitly opted in before the introduction.

Hire DevOps engineers who pave roads, not gatekeep them.