Hire Top DevOps Engineers in San Francisco

San Francisco DevOps engineers operate the production infrastructure under FAANG, frontier-AI labs and the densest scaleup tail in the world. GitHunt ranks SF DevOps engineers by their real GitHub work.

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#1
Cole Murray

Cole Murray

@ColeMurray
100
Match Score

AI/ML Consultant, 2nd-time Founder, Former Sr SDE @ Amazon

San Francisco, CA
#2
Jason Kulatunga

Jason Kulatunga

@AnalogJ
100
Match Score

Devops/Automation guy. I build tools so you don't have to. I build things. Then I break them. Most of the time I fix them again.

San Francisco, CA
#3
David Wells

David Wells

@DavidWells
97
Match Score

Full stack engineer focused on serverless architecture & product development

San Francisco
#4
Simon
95
Match Score

CS Student @ EPFL (Switzerland)

San Francisco, US
#5
Grant Birkinbine

Grant Birkinbine

@GrantBirki
94
Match Score

Security Engineer at @OpenAI. ex-@GitHub, ex-@Nordstrom. I love to build things and maybe break a few things too.

San Francisco, CA
OpenAI
#6
Evan Bacon

Evan Bacon

@EvanBacon
92
Match Score

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San Francisco
#7
Michelle Tilley

Michelle Tilley

@BinaryMuse
92
Match Score

CTO at @atuinsh

San Francisco, CA
Atuin
#8
Mathis Joffre

Mathis Joffre

@Joffref
88
Match Score

Building the infrastructure for AI Agents @blaxel.ai

San Francisco
Blaxel
#9
azul
88
Match Score

🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️ co-ceo & co-founder @TimeCopilot.

San Francisco, CA
#10
Luke Zhan

Luke Zhan

@1spyral
88
Match Score

building @Altara-Technologies

San Francisco, CA

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Why Hire DevOps Engineers in San Francisco?

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Hire engineers shaped by Google, Meta and FAANG-adjacent SRE discipline - rare reliability and on-call rigor at extreme scale.
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Tap deep Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi and OpenTelemetry talent, with significant overlap with GPU-cluster operations and LLM serving infra.
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Source DevOps ICs with strong CNCF OSS contribution profiles - SF has the largest concentration of Kubernetes, Envoy and Istio maintainers globally.

About DevOps Engineers

Senior SF DevOps engineers own production Kubernetes, GitOps pipelines, observability stacks and increasingly GPU-cluster operations for AI workloads. The strongest SF candidates have meaningful CNCF contribution profiles and deep production scale experience.

SF's AI-native wave has redefined DevOps: many senior SF DevOps engineers now run inference clusters, manage LLM-serving infrastructure, or operate frontier-model training rigs. GitHunt surfaces this via commits.

Market Insights: DevOps Engineers in San Francisco

The 2026 SF DevOps market is tight, especially for AI-infra specialists: senior ICs command $200k-$300k base, with AI-infra leads pushing past $350k base plus heavy equity.

A pattern LinkedIn misses: many of SF's strongest DevOps engineers are CNCF maintainers - Kubernetes core, Envoy, Istio, OpenTelemetry, Crossplane. GitHunt indexes them via commits directly.

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