Kubernetes jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area
82 roles posted Oct 20–26, 2026 list Kubernetes as a skill in the San Francisco Bay Area, from 64 employers. That is 11% of the 766 developer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area RoleWeek lists.
A role counts when Kubernetes is among the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in its posting. Data as of .
Who is hiring
The 10 employers with the most roles, out of 64. One role is one opening, however many places it is listed for.
By level
| Level | Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | 1% |
| Mid level | 33 | 40% |
| Senior | 14 | 17% |
| Staff+ | 25 | 30% |
| Manager | 5 | 6% |
| Director+ | 4 | 5% |
Level is RoleWeek’s reading of each posting.
What these roles post as salary
66 of these 82 roles list a yearly salary range in US dollars. The median bottom of those ranges is $177K and the median top is $264K; the middle half of the bottoms runs from $155K to $223K, and of the tops from $223K to $312K. These are the ranges employers posted in their own postings: not offers, not what people are paid and not a market average. Posted ranges across all the developer roles RoleWeek lists in the San Francisco Bay Area: Developer salary ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area · DevOps and SRE salary ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Not counted: 16 roles list no salary. Pay by the hour, week or month is never converted or mixed with yearly ranges, and each page uses one currency.
Roles that list Kubernetes
Showing 24 of 82, newest first. Search the roles in this list that mention Kubernetes
Member of Technical Staff, Traffic Infrastructure
FireworksSan MateoHybrid$175K–$220K/yrKubernetesEnvoy5+ yrsBacked by Index VenturesStaff/Principal Engineer, Search & Retrieval
Lila SciencesSan Francisco, CA$224K–$336K/yrKubernetesRAGNo account needed8+ yrsBacked by General CatalystStaff Product Security Engineer
AirwallexSan FranciscoHybrid$220K–$280K/yrKubernetesSplunk8+ yrsSenior Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure
SkydioSan Mateo, CAHybrid$190K–$250K/yrKubernetesGoBacked by a16zDevOps Engineer
MergeSan Francisco, CARemote$155K–$185K/yrKubernetesAWS4+ yrsDirector of AI Research
Otter.aiMountain View, CA$244K–$313K/yrKubernetesLLMs10+ yrsStaff Software Engineer - Streaming Infrastructure
SkydioSan Mateo, CAHybrid$230K–$275K/yrKubernetesGoBacked by a16zSecurity Engineer
RevelSan Francisco, Los AngelesOn-siteKubernetesLinux7+ yrsSenior Principal Architect, AI Platform
WorkdayPleasanton, CA$242.4K–$363.6K/yrKubernetesAWS15+ yrsSenior Engineering Manager - Containers, Kubernetes, and Confidential Computing
NVIDIASanta Clara, Redmond +3Remote$272K–$431.2K/yrKubernetesRust12+ yrsStaff Engineer, Data Platform
UnityMountain View, CARemote$157.8K–$300.6K/yrKubernetesFlinkStaff Site Reliability Engineer
CiscoSan Francisco, San Jose +1Hybrid$166.3K–$307.8K/yrKubernetesSplunk8+ yrsSr. Staff Software Development Engineer
ZscalerSan Jose, CAHybrid$157.5K–$225K/yrKubernetesZero TrustNo account needed8+ yrsStaff Software Engineer, Site Reliability
IroncladSan FranciscoHybrid$210K–$235K/yrKubernetesGCP8+ yrsBacked by SequoiaPlatform Engineer
QuindarSan Francisco, Seattle +3Hybrid$145K–$186K/yrKubernetesAWS3+ yrsDetection and Response Engineer
BraintrustSan Francisco, Seattle +1On-siteKubernetesLLMsBacked by a16zSite Reliability Engineer
WPP MediaSan Francisco, Los Angeles$75K–$180K/yrKubernetesGCPNo account needed7+ yrsAI Infrastructure Technical Systems Engineer
CiscoSan Jose, RTPHybrid$140.3K–$178.1K/yrKubernetesAnsible2+ yrsSoftware DevOps Engineer, Networking
NVIDIASanta Clara, CA$148K–$276K/yrKubernetesPythonPlatform Engineer (Kubernetes)
CleraSan FranciscoOn-site$180K–$210K/yrKubernetesArgo CD2+ yrsAI Hardware Engineering Intern
IntelSanta Clara, FolsomHybrid$100.6K/yrKubernetesFPGADirector, Software Engineering
SnapLogicSan Mateo, CAHybrid$220K–$250K/yrKubernetesMongoDBNo account needed10+ yrsBacked by a16zEngineering Manager
RunlayerSan Francisco, New YorkRemoteKubernetesdbt
How these counts are made
- Source: the roles RoleWeek lists as posted in the last 7 days, straight from employers’ own hiring systems. A role counts for a skill when that skill is one of the up to five technologies RoleWeek read in the posting’s title and description (the title first, then the most mentioned). A role that names a skill once among many tools may not list it, so these count the roles that list the skill, not all the roles that touch it.
- Names are matched exactly: Java is not JavaScript, C++ and C# are not C and not each other, Go is the language (never “go-to-market”) and R is the language. A posting that names a vendor only as its own employer, an investor or a customer does not count for that vendor’s product.
- One role is one card: an opening listed for several places counts once on a page. A role listed in several cities counts on each city’s page.
- A skill has a page when 15 or more roles list it, and a city page when 15 or more do there and it is not the same set of roles as the skill’s own page. Practices that are not one technology (CI/CD, Git, microservices, networking) have none.
- Salaries are only what employers posted, summarised by the rules of the salary pages: yearly ranges only, one currency per page, a median shown with 15 or more roles. The numbers are rebuilt every day.
The full list: Developer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area (766 roles posted in the last 7 days). Every skill: developer roles by skill.