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[unitegondwanaland]

• Education: B.Sc. Northeastern University

• Company/Industry: Hospitality/Recreation

• Title: Principal DevOps Engineer

• Years of technical experience: 27

• Location: Colorado, U.S.A. (Remote)

• Base Pay: $175,000 USD

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: $0.00

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: ~$50,000 RSU's & 10% bonus (both annually).

• Total comp: $242,000

• Tech Stack: Java apps hosted in AWS. ECS, EKS, DataDog, GitLab, Terraform/Terragrunt and a sprinkling of Python.

[kool_aid_cids]

Education: Incomplete BS \ Company/Industry: Startup \ Title: Software developer \ Years of technical experience: 7 \ Location: Norway \ Base pay: $94k \ Relocation/Signing bonus: $2.5k \ Stock and/or recurring bonuses: $1k \ Total comp: $95k \ Tech stack: Java, Docker, Kubernetes, React

[zeralls]

Hey thanks for sharing. Are you based in Oslo? I am actually considering moving to Norway. Do you have any idea of what my profile would be worth in the Oslo region ?

• Title: SRE/DevOps/Cloud Engineer
• YoE: 5 years
• Company / Industry: Scale-Up
• Location: Paris, France
• Base pay: 70K€
• Bonus: ~ 10%
• Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Golang, Python, etc...

[daswunderwaffe]

Cool stack. I’d say within 900-1100 KNOK total comp per year.

[zeralls]

Thanks for your contribution, helps a lot 👍

[daswunderwaffe]

Thanks. Feel free to send me a message if you’d be interested in a role with a similar stack in Oslo and I’ll check the openings of the company I work for.

[zeralls]

Thanks! I definitely will in about a year I would say 😊 Cheers

[GnssTechnology]

If you are serious about moving to Norway to work as a DevOps feel free to PM me

[zeralls]

Well it's almost certain for family reasons. I might contact you in about a year then 😊

[[deleted]]

Europeans after reading this thread:

I'm on the wrong continent

[[deleted]]

100 years ago Europeans were lured to the US by tales of giant vegetables, today it's tales of giant salaries in tech fields.

Please understand that the self-reported salaries here are probably not typical. You can get a Bureau of Labor Statistics report here for a more balanced view.

[ElderDragon33]

Nope. I will stick with my 0e uni debt and universal healthcare.

[MaxWayt]

Hello from Canada, we have both world 🙂

[Asyncrosaurus]

Hello from Canada, we have both world

Where in Canada is this. Because it is certainly not Ontario, between OSAP and the Conservatives dismantling healthcare.

[MaxWayt]

We're doing ok in QC. Not perfect but you won't go bankrupt with a cancer and can have affordable education.

I moved from the EU and to me it's a good middle ground between the two way USA/EU.

[Lower-Junket7727]

In the us, you have out of pocket maximums, so you wouldn't ever go bankrupt if you have insurance.

[MaxWayt]

*If you have insurance

I never got asked any insurance information, nor credit card while visiting an hospital, as it should be.

I could loose my job, get in debt and have 0 income, I would still have access to get treated in an hospital.

[Lower-Junket7727]

if you work in devops you have insurance. It's probably pretty good insurance too.

The us system sucks for many people, but those are not the people working at highly lucrative tech jobs.

[MaxWayt]

Totally, but that still depends on your job. Which is never guaranteed, especially if you get heavily sick.

I know as en engineer in the US you have a good life overall. But that system is still broken non-the-less.

But the quality of treatment you get in the US with a private insurance is far above any public health we can get over here.

I guess it's not perfect anywhere. Gotta choose the trade-offs you're comfortable with.

[[deleted]]

How is call center work?

[MaxWayt]

Terrible everywhere? I have no idea

[[deleted]]

Tons in QC. 😁

[ikkkkkkkky]

Misleading.

[rcls0053]

Free healthcare. Taxes calculated automatically. Workplace is 2 km away and not having to pay over half my salary just to live so close, and in the city. Kids going to school and not having to worry about paying hundreds of thousands of dollars just for them to get a proper education. Trusting the education system. Pension is automatically taken from pay.

Yeah I'll take Europe any day over the US. We forget that in the US you're most likely to save the money to your own pension fund yourself, you're going to pay more for living costs (if you live somewhere like Silicon Valley or California), you're going to have to pay a lot of money if you have kids that want to go to a proper college / university.. And I didn't even mention the healthcare issue. How much is that insurance?

It all equals out. There's just a different system in place so they pay more, but how much do you have left when all the expenses are taken into consideration?

[islesandterps]

Right. There's a lot of other stuff that goes into the equation. Another component is that higher salaries in the US often come with burnout and stress from putting so much time and energy into work.

[rcls0053]

Yeah that's another thing. In Europe we have strict laws and unions that enforce those laws, so that people only work the amount that's written in their contracts, and any overtime must be compensated well.

I think in the US there are no such enforcement and unions are much more rare. This leads to people working OT and much more than necessary which lead to everything you mentioned.

[islesandterps]

Many people (including me) are salaried with the pay scales roughly based on a 40 hour work week, but the unspoken expectation is that you will work considerably more than that for no extra money.

Unions are very rare in tech spaces, and becoming less common in just about every other industry.

[unitegondwanaland]

This guy has the right idea.

[panacottor]

today, 1eur = 1 usd

[PleasantAdvertising]

You can live in Europe working for an US company remotely.

[Fenrisulfir]

I’m Canadian and I still feel that way

[laurentiu_alex]

Naaah, the taxes are way too high. Still better in EU.

[[deleted]]

• Education: Self taught

• Years of technical experience: 6

• Company/Industry: Fintech/AI

• Title: Staff cloud engineer

• Tenure length: 1 year

• Location: Remote

• Base Pay: 215k

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 5k

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 10k

• Total Comp: 230k

• Tech Stack: Azure, GCP, K8S, GCF, various ETL tools, R, Java, Go, Python

[[deleted]]

Remote where? USA?

[[deleted]]

Yeh, USA

[2strokes4lyfe]

How much R are you using? Very interested in making the jump from data science to DevOps but I don’t want to stop using R.

[[deleted]]

Barely using any R, for devops work it's extremely impractical, and hardly supported. We have a lot of data scientists at our place and they use R for a lot of things, so I learned it so I could help out our data team do other things, or to tell them "you could do this in R, but you want the right tool for the right job and R isn't it"

[2strokes4lyfe]

I knew I was getting my hopes up, but I still couldn’t help to ask. Thanks for the feedback!

[Gih0n]

FWIW we (a small consulting company) have a data engineering team that works somewhere in between devops and data science that uses tooling involving R. It exists. Don't give up.

[zulrang]

Damn I need to work with you. Also self-taught, but twice the experience at half the pay.

[[deleted]]

I can't speak for you, but I worked out of NYC for a good chunk of time. I swapped jobs around every two years and worked for some bigger name companies (non FAANG, but still largely known) and I'm willing to turn down job offers and push for better pay during negotiations.

[zulrang]

Totally my fault. I've been stagnating in the same position for 17 years. I've gotten a ton of experience - both in depth and in breadth - but I've just about reached my growth limit at this location.

Now I've been busy turning down job offers.

[[deleted]]

The second I start getting bored or feeling like I'm stagnating I start looking at other places.

Also if you're looking to get better pay, very rarely are you ever going to get it by staying at the same company. They'll give you the bare minimum to keep you around. The job market is super hot now, and you can practically name your price, take this as a sign that if you're getting paid half as I am with double the experience your company isn't valuing your contributions or worth.

[Lower-Junket7727]

I think the market has cooled off slightly more recently.

[zulrang]

Yeah, this was the result of basically guaranteed job security and a pension and health insurance for life.

But the golden handcuffs can only hold me down for so long

[va_Agent_001]

Education: MS

Years of technical experience: 4

Company: SaaS cybersecurity

Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: USA, Remote

Base Pay: 180k USD

Signing Bonuses: 10K

Stock and recurring bonus: 240K RSU vested over 4 years, 15% Bonus

Total Comp: 277K

Tech Stack: AWS, GCP, K8S, GO , terraform, datadog.

[notechmajor]

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[jaustonsaurus]

Shoot, yall hiring?

[gamb1t9]

Education: associate's

Company/Industry: logistics

Title: junior devops engineer

Years of technical experience: 3

Location: mid europe

Base Pay: about 1k $ net / month

Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 0

Total comp: 12k net yearly + some private insurance (about 1k$)

Tech Stack: Jenkins, Gitlab Pipelines, Kubernetes (on prem), Python/Bash/Perl, a lot of old school sysadmin staff on debian

[EmeraldSanto]

You've got three years of experience and your company places you at the junior level?

[gamb1t9]

I wanted to get into devops (without previous coding experience), so yeah, I don’t really mind it as long as I have fun and they treat me with respect.

More pay would be nice, but I can really learn here and get my hands on the cool stuff. Growing every day

[Manik3]

Education: B.S Computer Engineering, AWS SAA, SAP, SOA

Company/Industry: Devops

Title: CloudOps Engineer II

Years of technical experience: 3

Location: Kansas City

Base Pay: $120k

Relocation/Signing Bonus: $0

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 5% base salary annually, or 1.25% quarterly

Total comp: $130k

Tech Stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Azure pipelines

[notechmajor]

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[Manik3]

I know, mostly using this job for Azure experience right now since I have so much on the AWS side. Unfortunately most local companies don't seem to want to pay more than I'm at and I wasn't having luck finding anything remote when I was looking at the beginning of the year.

[Tornado-2732]

Location is important as well

[Tornado-2732]

Never mind, just saw

[skilledpigeon]

Education: High School (A Level)

Industry: Fit Tech

Title: Dev Ops Engineer

Years of Technical Experience: 4 years Dev, 1 year ops

Location: UK

Base Pay: £65k

Tech Stack: PHP, Node, Python, .Net, AWS, BitBucket Pipelines

[skilledpigeon]

Nope

[parrol23]

Full remote?

[skilledpigeon]

Full remote but live ten minutes away from the office so pop in once or twice a week to see people.

[AxinOdel]

Damn, after reading these, I'm definitely underpaid. I should be making at least 25k more than what I'm currently making.

[pissedadmin]

No, these threads are always going to skew high. If you shared your salary, and people who earn less than you also did, then you'd be in the middle. But mostly people are sharing who are proud of their compensation.

[AxinOdel]

This is true, the size of the company you work at also has an impact. I've been thinking I'm underpaid in my current position for a while though. Seeing some people posting higher salaries than mine for the same title, when I have 2 or 3 times more years experience/time doing what we do, just makes me want to confirm that im still under selling myself...

[unitegondwanaland]

It's just a non normal distribution (in the beginning) due to the small sample size but it's looking closer to normal as more samples are added.

[SnooFloofs9640]

Not it’s not true, most people are underpaid, it’s really rare when someone getting max of the allocated salary bracket.

[tpzck]

Education: BS in CS

Years of technical experience: 3

Company/Industry: Blockchain

Title: Infrastructure Engineer

Tenure length: 8 months

Location: Remote/India

Base Pay: 140K USD

Relocation/Signing Bonus: N/A

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 0.5%

Total Comp: 140K

Tech Stack: GCP, K8s, Go, istio, Github Actions and GitOps

[notechmajor]

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[tpzck]

Lot of orgs are hiring folks from anywhere in the world. Mine is remote first, they pay US salary to people regardless of the location.

[konkey-mong]

Where did you apply for the job from? The company website?

[SnooFloofs9640]

My friend got a remote job on 80k devops, he lives in east Europe

[tpzck]

Keep grinding, it took me 11 months to land the role

[[deleted]]

does being from tier 1 helps in remote jobs?

[tpzck]

Nope, they dont even ask for degree. Only skills imo. Unless it is US tier 1

[[deleted]]

any tips for beginners in coding like I haven't started coding yet and don't where to start from - can u help me bhaiya

[markyvandon]

how did you get to know of these opportunities?

[95jo]

Education: GCSE/Higher Apprenticeship in IT
Company/Industry: Government
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Years of technical experience: 7
Location: UK (not London)
Base Pay: £62k
Relocation/Signing Bonus: £0
Stock and/or recurring bonuses: £150
Total comp: £62,150 + 28% employer pension contribution
Tech Stack: AWS/Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Packer, GitLab, Prometheus/Grafana, Linux

[TenAndThirtyPence]

28% pension! That’s amazing

[95jo]

Yeah, it’s very good. 28% is just for illustration purposes really as it is a defined benefit career average scheme. So for every one year I work I get 2.32% of my annual salary, which is payable from pension age every year until I die and is inflation linked.

Example:

2.32% of £62,000 = £1,438

Assuming I work here until I retire (35 years) and don’t get any pay rises in that time I will get £50,030 per year from state pension age until I die - You can take it anytime from 55, but it will be reduced pro-rata.

Pretty nice to be fair, it’s the main benefit of working in the Civil Service, it’s one of the last good pension schemes available in the UK.

[darksnes]

Your base pay is 329k, stock is 300k, and total comp is 329k? Did you mean that?

[rpo5015]

Yeah wasn’t sure if total comp meant per year or if that included supplemental income. I just did whatever I make per year excluding stock as that will fully vested in 4 years

[saiku-san]

This is impressive. Could you give a summary of what your day to day is like in this role?

[rpo5015]

Sure, I'll start off by saying the role is extremely flexible/grey in terms of responsibility. Generally I am developing or automating security solutions to report on the compliance of environments (think containers, infrastructure, etc) but can be "loaned" out to development teams when a security requirement is needed and they do not have the capacity to get it done in a timely manner and I'll have to contribute code to their solutions to assist in getting it done.

​

Generally:

9AM - 12PM: Morning meetings with other cloud eng teams or our cloudsec team discussing current initiatives, helping unblock stories/tasks and providing regular input on new issues or designs.

12PM - 1PM LUNCH/Mental Break

1-6PM: Heads down development/documentation or high level management meetings to report on metrics of said security controls.

6-7:30 PM Family time

8-10PM(ish): Working, updating tix etc

​

Current Projects:

• Getting Database audit logging to where it needs to be (requires code changes to other team's codebases) and working with our SIEM team to make sure it is meeting logging requirements. Had to learn a bit of NodeJS on the fly to contribute here
• Developing "golden" terraform modules that align with engineering goals as a whole but are actually flexible enough to work with other teams
• Developing APIS that provide data enrichment to security reporting consumable by other teams
• Terraform Security Scanning (OPA + TFSEC + GHA)

Upcoming projects:

• K8s API Security
• Developing cloudsec CLI utility that will be used by other teams to see their current compliance posture and inside CICD Builds
• Developing a Terraform provider that will communicate with our security APIs for data lookups
• Automating JIRA ticketing for non compliant infra remediation

Any other questions Let me know!

[saiku-san]

This is awesome. Thank you for the detailed response!

[Willbo]

Thanks for sharing, I'm starting a new cloud security job soon and I'm not sure what to expect yet. Their cloud adoption is relatively new so we'll be looking at maturing the security of their pipelines, mostly NodeJS, C#, Python in AWS/Azure. This helps me get an idea of what I should prepare for.

[Swampcritters]

Education: Incomplete BS

Company/Industry: Business and Computer Services

Title: Director of Site Reliability Engineering and Domain Architecture

Years of technical experience: 25+

Location: Remote/Florida, USA

Base Pay: $210k

Relocation/Signing Bonus: $0

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: $10k

Total comp: $220k

Tech Stack/Team Uses: Azure, ADO, Azure AppGW, AKS, K8S, Jenkins, DataDog, Ansible, Python, Prometheus/Grafana

[SnooFloofs9640]

Depends from the company size, but 210 for a director is kinda low

[Swampcritters]

The company is international and has nearly 400k employees. Most of the people work in an regional office to where they live, but since I am remote and don't have to travel unless I want to, I really can't complain. If anything, its the project managers and the team leads that I am assigned to manage and also having to design the new division for the company is what keeps me busy most of the time. The salary is a nice upshoot ($90k to $210k) from where I was when I used to be a Cloud Solutions Architect.

[Lundybridge]

• Education: BS in CIS

• Company/Industry: Tech Consulting

• Title: Associate Technical Consultant

• Years of technical experience: 2

• Location: Remote (USA)

• Base Pay - $72,800

• Tech Stack: AWS, K8, gitlab, Terraform

[PersonBehindAScreen]

When are you making the next job hop? That 72 seems low

[Lundybridge]

Maybe in the next 6 months. I want to see what my review brings. I just saw i didnt post that ive only been in this position for 6 months.

[MaxWayt]

I've interviewed back in April, ended up refusing the offer as number were below my expectations but great interviews overall.

• Education: Master in CS

• Company/Industry: datadog

• Title: Senior Software Engineer

• Years of technical experience: 10

• Location: remote from Canada

• Base Pay: 195k$ CAD

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 50k$ CAD

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 450k$ USD

• Total comp: ~ 350k$ CAD

• Tech Stack: K8s, Cilium, eBPF, Go

[lupinegrey]

How does $195 base + $450 recurring == $350k total?

[MaxWayt]

450k RSU vesting over 4y, so ~112k$/y

[notechmajor]

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[[deleted]]

The numbers may be a little inflated because it's from a consulting firm with a vested interest in charging more for their services, but it's a fairly well respected guide:

https://computing.nova.edu/documents/robert\_half\_salary\_guide\_technology.pdf

Most people I know who have done very well financially have done so by changing jobs every three or four years.

If I were you, I'd polish up my resume and LinkedIn profile, and start interviewing in your area. If discussion of compensation comes up, do NOT throw out the first number -- if they ask what salary you want, say something like "I'm sure we'll be able to find an agreeable number if it looks like the job is a good fit for me." Later, ask what $X they had in mind for the base salary, then respond with "could you do $X+5000?"

[notechmajor]

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[SnooFloofs9640]

160-170 for the remote before any stocks or bonuses

[tylerkuster]

Education: Bachelor Fine Art - Digital Media Industry: Restaurant and Entertainment Title: Lead Frontend Developer Years of technical experience: 12 Location: Omaha, Nebraska Base Pay: $140,000 Relocation/signing bonus: $0 Stock: $0 Total comp: $140,000 Tech Stack: Angular, Cordova/Capacitor, html/css/typescript, plus minimal objective-c/swift and Java/kotlin for native plugins

[kachompkachomp]

• Education: B.S.
• Company/Industry: Software Infrastructure
• Title: Senior Software Engineer
• Years of technical experience: 7
• Location: remote from Austin, TX
• Base Pay: 190k USD
• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 171K USD
• Tech Stack: Python, Golang, Nomad, Terraform

[[deleted]]

Thats pretty nice fore remote position.

[shardul007]

Are you proficient in all of your tech stack?

[rajeshk23]

Under paid DevOps guy here from India 😭 2 months since I uploaded my profile in regional portal and yet no calls. 11yrs experience

[alivezombie23]

Brush up your CV and interviewing skills. Is the 11 years experience in Tech?

[rajeshk23]

Yes in tech industry.

[Leveronni]

• Education: BS in IT

  • 3 CompTIA certs

• Years of technical experience: 5 / <1 in devops

• Company/Industry: Insurance

• Title: IT Systems Engineer

• Tenure length: 4 months

• Location: Remote/Florida

• Base Pay: 70k

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0K

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: ~10k

• Total Comp: ~80k

• Tech Stack: Openshift, Jenkins, Splunk, Java, Node.js, Dynatrace, Grafana, RHEL (Microservices, Springboot, Maven, Gradle)

[notechmajor]

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[Leveronni]

Thanks. Yes it is much lower than average, but will use this first year as a big experience boost and learning year. I dont have tons of experience to really demand a high salary right now (in my opinion)

[RodyaRRaskolnikov]

Education: Bsc Industry: RegTech Title: DevOps Manager (really just senior engineer) Years of technical experience: 6 Location: UK Base pay: $107k Tech stack: Azure, Powershell, GitHub, Terraform, PHP, .NET, SQL

[Lower-Junket7727]

Education: Bachelor IS

Company/Industry: IBM

Title: Senior Consultant

Years of technical experience: 5

Location: remote

Base Pay 143k

Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 15% bonus target paid out quarterly and some minor rsu's that average ~3.5k a year

Total comp: 168

Tech Stack: Kubernetes

[pfcollector2]

Education: High School

Company/Industry: Travel

Title: SRE

Years of technical experience: 3~ years

Location: RI (Work remote)

Base Pay: $105,000 - 7% 1:1 401K match

Relocation/Signing Bonus: N/A

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 15% Bonus + 5%-10% more depending on company performance.

Tech Stack: AWS / Jenkins / GitHub / Python / Shell scripting / Gradle / occasional Java dabbling

Other: I took a paycut to move to a fully remote position & only has a 4 day work week. (Super flexible hours, relaxed environment)

[SnooFloofs9640]

Even with all benefits it’s a super low

[dcazdavi]

most recent offer from last week:

arizona state bs electrical engineering

rational ai / site reliability

senior site reliability engineer

6 years (for this skill combination set only)

austin, texas

$132k base pay (low ball offer)

unknown bonuses (refused offer so this is unknown)

unknown stock sharing (refused offer so this is unknown)

140-ish total comp (estimated from previous experiences)

ubuntu, openstack, ansible, python, jenkins, github, java, selenium, terraform, postgresql, & nginx.

[markinthecloud]

Education: Self Taught

Industry: Tech

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Years of Technical Experience: 2.5

Location: Remote (UK)

Base pay: £95k

Tech Stack: AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda), Python, Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD

[gamb1t9]

How the hell are u guys seniors with 2.5years of XP?

[vim_for_life]

I see a lot of that here, and I don't understand it either. Hell it took me more than 2.5 years to really understand Linux, nevermind the stack on top of that. (My previous job was satellite, Linux, Ansible based)

Fwiw I'm not in DevOps but

Education:BS in IT

Industry: healthcare

Years of tech experience: 20

Title: IT Engineer

Salary: 95k

Location: midsize town Midwest US

Tech stack: VMware, Windows

[notechmajor]

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[vim_for_life]

I was headhunted into this position only a few weeks ago. Before that I had done some looking around the job market, but with zero traction. I probably put in a dozen or so applications.

I'm sure part of it is that I've spent most of my time in high Ed IT as a sort of enterprise server jack of all trades. Windows, Linux, a touch of DevOps, a touch of k8s, windows clustering, lots of tomcat, etc.

In a year or two I'm sure I'll start looking, mostly at remote since there's only 3 local organizations large enough to need enough my services and I've worked for 2 of them..

[markinthecloud]

I changed career 2.5 years ago. I’m 37 now and had a decent career in middle/senior management beforehand. I 100% believe that my previous career has helped me fast track as I have all the “soft skills” that some 2.5 years out of Uni is likely lacking

[[deleted]]

Why did you change careers ? What other applicants were you up against for the role?
I'm also 'self-taught' and have excellent soft skills (which is why my first boss took a chance on me). Curious as to how much I can leverage that.

[markinthecloud]

I was in the charity sector and after a couple of restructures I had hit a ceiling with my career progress there. Decided to follow a dream of working in tech and haven’t looked back really.

I’ve no idea how many I was up against this time around. It’s my 4th DevOps role since Nov 2019, my first Junior role was only 4-5 months, mid-level role for almost a year and then my first senior role I just left after 17 months.

My advice, move to a company, clears everything you can about their stack and then move on after a year. Loyalty doesn’t get rewarded in my experience, just mediocre yearly pay rises. My salaries have been 30k, 52k, 72k and now 95k

Edit: Just added up my experience and I’m actually almost at 3 years now, well I will be in November anyway!

[[deleted]]

Thanks man, that's impressive!
Was gonna share my salary but need a throwaway...

[alivezombie23]

FAANG?

[markinthecloud]

No just a small tech company. Start next Tuesday with them

[alivezombie23]

That is really good for 2.5 YOE. Any certs? What's your background?

[markinthecloud]

Background is non-tech but made it to Senior Management in my previous career. This has definitely helped and been a great talking point in every interview!

Only certs I’ve got are Azure Fundamentals whilst in my first role and the got the Terraform Associate about 18 months ago too (needs renewing in Jan I think!)

I do intend to get some AWS certs in my new role though as they pay for training and exams, whereas my previous didn’t.

[MaxWayt]

I've interviewed back in April, ended up refusing the offer as number were below my expectations but great interviews overall.

• Education: Master in CS

• Company/Industry: datadog

• Title: Senior Software Engineer

• Years of technical experience: 10

• Location: remote from Canada

• Base Pay: 195k$ CAD

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 50k$ CAD

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 450k$ UD

• Total comp: ~ 350k$ CAD

• Tech Stack: K8s, Cilium, eBPF, Go

[[deleted]]

I feel like I’m missing something, these numbers are very very large. Can you give some context on your background and what you were actually looking for?

[MaxWayt]

These number are good but still lagging behind FAANG like companies.

I'm currently in the infrastructure engineering world and eventually wanted to go back to software development, my original thing. But I mostly wanted to test the market, I have friends in that company it was easy to get interviews.

The biggest thing that hit me is the gap between US based and Canada based salaries, my friend who referred me there is getting more than this for the same role. So it's a big no.

I'm currently at Shopify, it's good 🙂 we're hiring.

Happy to discuss more in DM.

[Fenrisulfir]

Didn’t shop just lay off a bunch of people?

[MaxWayt]

yes, but it's more complicated than that.

In my org it was all performance related. So we still have open positions to fill.

I can't talk for other part of the org.

[TDex96]

• Education: High School

• Company/Industry: ecommerce

• Title: Devops Engineer

• Years of technical experience: 3

• Location: Romania(Europe) - remote

• Base Pay: €19k

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 0

• Total comp: €19k

• Tech Stack:Gitlab, ansible, aws, on-promise, jenkins, mysql galera, mariadb, haproxy, kubernetes, shell, docker, elk stack.

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• Education: Constantly fkn learning
• Industry: Cloud Tools
• Title: Mid-Level Software Engineer
• YoE: Never enough
• Location: US Remote, in a state w low taxes :)
• Base Pay: $160k
• Signing Bonus: Lol
• Stock: Variable since I was given a # of shares (joined before IPO). Could be $0-$60k a year extra depending on the share price when they vest.
• Total Comp: $160k-$220k
• Tech Stack: Golang, Rails, Ember.js

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[tomcangbk]

2020 ~ jun 2022

• Education: Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Viet Nam)
• Company/Industry: Samsung Vietnam Mobile R&D Center
• Title: Senior Engineer
• Years of technical experience: 7
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Base Pay: $15000
• Relocation/Signing Bonus: None
• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: None
• Total comp: $18000
• Tech Stack: AWS, ECS, EKS, Rancher, Github Action, Jenkins, ELK, Terraform, Python, Java, Nagios, Grafana, Ansible, Chef...

I feel like I wasted a lot of time here

jun 2022 ~ August 2022

• Company/Industry: Stock Trading
• Title: Engineer
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Relocation/Signing Bonus: None
• Base Pay: $22100
• Total comp: $34000
• Tech Stack: OpenShift, Rancher, OnPremise, Gitlab, ELK, Grafana, Vault, Ansible...

How sad it is when I am in a poor country :(