DevOps & Infra Jobs Hiring Report — July 2026

Key facts

• As of July 2026, there are 5,861 open DevOps & infra roles across 2,381 companies hiring directly through their own boards.
• Net hiring grew by +227 roles over the last 28 days (2,037 opened against 1,810 closed) — modest growth, not a boom.
• 438 companies posted their first DevOps/infra role in the last 28 days, a bigger signal of breadth than the headcount numbers alone.
• Only 16% of postings disclose pay (n=192); the disclosed median band sits at $139,944–$184,986/yr.
• Just 22% of roles are remote — the on-site pull is real, and a lot of it is coming from hardware and space companies.

The most interesting thing in this month's data isn't the top-line count — it's who's climbing the fastest-hiring board. Two of the top ten net movers are space companies, one builds humanoid robots, one makes AI chips, and a couple more run GPU cloud infrastructure. This isn't the SaaS-heavy DevOps market of a few years ago. The demand right now is concentrated where physical systems meet compute, and that tells you something about where infrastructure engineers should be pointing their attention.

How many DevOps & infra jobs are open right now?

There are 5,861 open DevOps and infrastructure roles as of July 2026, spread across 2,381 companies posting on their own Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards. That company count matters more than it looks: with roughly 2.5 roles per company on average, this is a broad market rather than a handful of giants doing all the hiring. Most employers here are looking for one, two, maybe three infra people — not building out a 40-person platform org.

The function breakdown is almost comically lopsided. Of the 5,861 roles, 5,827 are tagged engineering. Product (12), sales (3), marketing (2) barely register, and there are 8 postings my classifier flagged as junk — noise I'd rather show you than quietly scrub. When someone says a DevOps hiring report, this is what they mean: this is an engineering market start to finish, with almost nothing adjacent riding along.

Is DevOps & infra hiring growing or cooling?

It's growing, but slowly — +227 net new roles over the trailing 28 days, from 2,037 opened and 1,810 closed. Read that closing number carefully. Nearly 1,800 roles came off boards in four weeks, which means churn is high and the net gain is a thin margin sitting on top of a lot of movement. This is a market in steady rotation, not one expanding rapidly.

The number I'd actually weight most is the 438 companies that opened their first DevOps or infra role in the last 28 days. New entrants are how a market widens rather than just deepens, and 438 in a month against a base of 2,381 is a healthy inflow. It says the demand isn't just the usual names topping up — new employers keep deciding they need infra people. If you track the churn yourself, the movers page shows which companies are opening and closing roles week to week.

Which companies are hiring DevOps & infra fastest?

Space, robotics, and AI-compute companies dominate the fastest-hiring list. Here's the top of the net-new leaderboard for the last 28 days:

• Spacesystemsintegration — +10 net, 10 active
• Neura Robotics — +10 net, 10 active
• Skylo — +9 net, 10 active
• Cerebras — +9 net, 9 active
• Fluidstack — +9 net, 18 active
• AST SpaceMobile — +9 net, 17 active
• SpaceX — +8 net, 115 active
• Nscale — +8 net, 40 active
• Nord Security — +8 net, 8 active
• Onenergy — +7 net, 7 active

A few things jump out. First, the net-new figures are tightly clustered — everyone at the top is adding seven to ten roles, so no single company is running away with the market this month. Second, notice how many of these companies have an active count almost identical to their net new count: Spacesystemsintegration shows 10 net and 10 active, Nord Security 8 and 8, Onenergy 7 and 7. Those are near-standing starts — teams that appeared on the board this cycle rather than topping up an existing presence.

Then there's SpaceX, sitting on 115 active infra roles while only adding a net 8. That's a different creature entirely: a large, continuously-hiring operation where the net movement is small relative to a very deep standing pool. If you want volume of open positions rather than momentum, that's where the openings actually are.

The theme underneath all of it is compute and hardware. Cerebras builds AI accelerators; Fluidstack and Nscale run GPU cloud capacity; Skylo and AST SpaceMobile are in satellite connectivity; Neura Robotics builds robots. If you'd assumed DevOps hiring was still mostly fintech and B2B SaaS platform teams, this month's leaderboard is a correction. The people paying to keep infrastructure running are increasingly the ones running physical fleets and enormous training clusters — and that partly explains the low remote share, which I'll get to.

What do DevOps & infra jobs pay?

The disclosed median band is $139,944–$184,986/yr, but I need to be straight about the caveat: that's from 192 postings, only 16% of the total. The other 84% list no pay at all. So treat this as a directional read from the minority of employers who show their cards, not gospel for the whole market.

Narrowing to the specific title, roles tagged DevOps Engineer show a median band of $130,000–$170,000 (n=36). That's meaningfully lower than the all-infra figure, which makes sense — the broader band gets pulled up by senior and principal platform, SRE and systems roles that command more. The gap between the DevOps-Engineer band and the overall band is roughly the price of seniority and specialization, and it's worth internalizing before you negotiate. If a recruiter opens with the low $130s, that's a market-consistent number for a mid-level DevOps Engineer title, not a lowball — though whether it's the right number for *your* level depends on where you sit in the seniority mix below.

Two practical notes. Small sample sizes (36 and 192) mean these bands will wobble month to month, so don't anchor too hard on the exact dollars. And because disclosure is voluntary and thin, self-selection is a factor — companies confident in their comp are likelier to publish it. I keep the running numbers on the DevOps salaries page if you want to see how the bands move over time rather than trusting a single snapshot.

What seniority levels are companies hiring for?

Senior and above is where almost all the specified demand lives. The breakdown:

• Unspecified: 2,895
• Senior: 2,038
• Principal: 673
• Director: 124
• Junior: 93
• Executive: 23
• VP: 15

Set aside the 2,895 unspecified roles — where the level is stated, the market skews hard toward experience. There are 2,038 senior and 673 principal openings against just 93 junior. That's a roughly 22-to-1 ratio of senior to junior, which is brutal if you're trying to break in. Infra hiring has always leaned senior because the cost of a mistake in production is high and companies want people who've been burned before, but a 93-role junior pool across 2,381 companies is thin even by that standard.

The flip side: if you already have senior-level experience, the market is built for you. Two thousand-plus senior roles and nearly 700 principal openings is a lot of room. And the large unspecified bucket is where I'd focus if I were mid-career — many of those postings are effectively senior-flavored without the label, and they're worth reading closely rather than filtering out.

Are these jobs remote?

Mostly not — only 22% of open roles are remote. That's a low number for engineering work that, in principle, can be done from anywhere, and I think this month's fastest-hiring list explains a chunk of it. When your top employers are launching satellites, building robots, and standing up physical GPU data centers, the infra work has a real gravitational pull toward the hardware. You can't SSH into a rocket from your kitchen. Space, robotics and on-prem compute companies want people near the metal, and they're a big share of current demand.

Practically, that means remote-first candidates are competing for roughly one in five of these roles. The competition on that slice is correspondingly tougher. If you're geographically flexible, or open to hybrid near one of the hardware or data-center hubs, you're fishing in a much larger pond.

Is this a good time to look for a DevOps & infra job?

If you're senior, yes; if you're junior or remote-only, it's harder than the headline count suggests. The market is growing, 438 new companies just entered it, and there are over 2,700 senior-and-above openings. That's a genuinely good backdrop for experienced infra engineers. The high closing rate (1,810 in 28 days) also means roles move fast — postings don't sit forever, so speed of application matters.

The honest counterweights: pay transparency is poor, so you'll do a lot of your comp research after first contact rather than before; the junior door is nearly shut; and the majority of roles want you on-site or hybrid. None of that is a reason to sit out — it's a reason to target well.

The takeaway for job seekers

Go where the momentum and the openings actually are. If you have senior or principal experience, prioritize the compute-and-hardware cluster topping the leaderboard — Cerebras, Fluidstack, Nscale, Skylo, AST SpaceMobile — and don't overlook SpaceX's 115 standing roles if you can work on-site. Apply fast, because these boards turn over roughly 1,800 roles a month. Read the 2,895 unspecified-level postings rather than filtering them out; a lot of them are senior roles in disguise. Anchor your comp expectations around $130k–$170k for a stra