Container and Kubernetes engineer jobs
Container and Kubernetes engineer: a person in this job runs software in containers on Kubernetes, the system most companies use to deploy services at scale. Elastic, Captivation Software, Canonical, CoreWeave and SpaceX have the most open roles with “Container and Kubernetes engineer” or a close variant in the title right now.
169 open roles · 26 posted in the last 7 days · 12% remote · 58 companies hiring · $200K median advertised salary · checked Nov 15 against employer career pages
| Period | Count |
|---|---|
| under $75K | 0 |
| $75K to $100K | 2 |
| $100K to $125K | 2 |
| $125K to $150K | 6 |
| $150K to $175K | 7 |
| $175K to $200K | 14 |
| $200K to $250K | 42 |
| $250K to $300K | 4 |
| $300K and more | 4 |
Skills asked for in container and Kubernetes engineer roles
Bars show the share of these 169 roles; one role can count in several rows.
Newest container and Kubernetes engineer jobs
- Platform Engineer, KubernetesClera · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $210KGoTerraformGCP
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Platform (LKS)Lambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$297K - $440KHybridMachine LearningKubernetesIncident response
- Engineering Team Lead, Managed K8sMistral.ai · 🇫🇷Paris—RemoteLead and aboveGoLinuxKubernetes
- Engineering Manager, Serverless ContainersMistral.ai · 🇫🇷Paris—RemoteGoLinuxKubernetes
- Senior Software Engineer - KubernetesKong · 🇮🇹Milan, Italy€75K - €85KHybridSeniorGoGCPAzure
- Analyst, Container ManagementScout Motors · 🇺🇸Blythewood, South Carolina, United States$70K - $85K
- Principal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇪🇸Spain · +9 more locations€80K - €127KLead and aboveJavaElasticsearchServerless
- Principal Java Developer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇨🇦CanadaCA$128K - CA$203KLead and aboveJavaElasticsearchServerless
- Senior Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇬🇧United Kingdom · +8 more locations—SeniorJavaElasticsearchServerless
- Senior Java Developer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇨🇦CanadaCA$128K - CA$203KSeniorJavaElasticsearchServerless
- Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Terraform/Kubernetes)Monks · 🇲🇽Mexico · +2 more locations—SeniorPostgreSQLTerraformGCP
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Bare Metal InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $350KTerraformLinuxKubernetes
- Senior Attack Engineer, KubernetesHorizon3ai · 🇺🇸US, Remote$206K - $243KRemoteSeniorPythonLinuxKubernetes
- Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes platformCloudflare · Distributed; Hybrid$194K - $266KHybridSeniorGoTypeScriptRedis
- Software Integration Engineer 4 - Linux/Bash/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/HelmCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerFastAPI
- Senior Software Engineer, ContainersChainguard · 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧Canada - Remote; Germany - Remote; United Kingdom - Remot… · +1 more location$157K - $184KRemoteSeniorGoTerraformGCP
- Test Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/HPC/Gitlab/CI/CD/DockerCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/LLM/CI/CD/GrafanaCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonSQLDocker
- Systems Engineer 1 - Linux/Bash/Python/STE/STN/Cisco/DockerCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/Keycloak/Ansible/Docker/CI/CDCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/Java/PHP/CI/CD/Ansible/DockerCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaPHP
- Systems Administrator 3 (On-Call) - Linux/Bash/Python/STE/STN/Docker/KubernetesCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Integration Engineer 4 - Linux/Bash/Python/VMware/Ansible/Docker/GitlabCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Integration Engineer 3 (On-Call) - Linux/Bash/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/Helm/Grafana/JiraCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/Java/IaC/Docker/CI/CDCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaDocker
- Software Engineer 2 - Linux/Bash/Python/MongoDB/Docker/Kubernetes/RabbitMQ/PostgreSQLCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD - Hybrid$130K - $270KHybridPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer 2 - Linux/Bash/Python/Java/Ansible/CI/CD/Docker/KubernetesCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD - Hybrid$130K - $270KHybridPythonJavaPHP
- Software Engineer 2 - Linux/Bash/Python/HashiCorp/Docker/Ansible/HPCCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 2 - Linux/Bash/Python/CI/CD/Git/DockerCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- Software Engineer 2 (Hybrid) - Linux/Bash/Apache Airflow/Apache Spark/Docker/Podman/Git/AWSCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD - Hybrid$130K - $270KHybridPythonJavaDocker
- Senior Go/Kubernetes Engineer - Core/Infra - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇨🇦Canada · +1 more locationCA$128K - CA$203KSeniorGoJavaCI/CD
- Senior Engineer, Kubernetes InfrastructureCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$153K - $204KSeniorGoPythonLinux
- Software Engineer 3 - Java/Docker/Helm/Kubernetes/TerraformCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KJavaDockerTerraform
- Software Engineer 3 - Java/Spring/Docker/Kubernetes/Grafana/Prometheus/GitCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KJavaDockerLinux
- Systems Engineer 3 (Watch Desk) - Jira/Confluence/Rancher/Redis/NiFi/Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Nagios/PrometheusCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸San Antonio, TX$130K - $270KDockerRedisLinux
- CDL Delivery Driver - ContainersEquipmentShare · 🇺🇸Cumming, GA (Site Solutions)—GoDriver's licenseDOT regulations
- Senior Platform Engineer - Container ServicesAdyen · 🇺🇸San Francisco$198K - $293KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff, Portworx - Backend (Go, Kubernetes)Pure Storage · 🇮🇳Bangalore, India—GoJavaC++
- Software Engineer III, KubernetesBox · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA, United States$165K - $206KTerraformGCPLinux
- Staff Engineer - Container SecurityIllumio · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California - HQ$196K - $235KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Sr. Software Engineer - Container SecurityIllumio · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California - HQ$172K - $198KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Junior .NET Developer (Linux & Red Hat OpenShift)Advansys · Giza, El Omraniya, Egypt—JuniorSQLC#.NET
- Principal Product Manager, Security Pricing and Packaging (Serverless) - Security SolutionsElastic · 🇨🇦Canada · +1 more locationCA$154K - CA$244KLead and aboveElasticsearchServerlessCloud security
- Senior Software Engineer — Container Images & SecurityRapidFort, Inc. · 🇺🇸United States$130K - $200KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Systems Administrator 3 - Linux/STE/STN/Virtualization/Ansible/Python/Kubernetes/DockerCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonDockerLinux
- CDL Delivery Driver - Roll Off/ContainersEquipmentShare · 🇺🇸Denver, CO (North)—GoDriver's licenseDOT regulations
- Principal Software Engineer, Docker Hardened ImagesDocker · 🇨🇦CanadaCA$246K - CA$397KRemoteLead and aboveLinuxCI/CDKubernetes
- Container EngineerSupabase · Remote, Global—Remote, anywhereGoPostgreSQLTerraform
- Contract Senior Typescript Engineer (Node.js, AWS Serverless)Codurance · 🇬🇧Bristol, England, United Kingdom—SeniorTypeScriptNode.jsC#
- Manager II, Engineering - Kubernetes PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US$177K - $365KRemoteKubernetesInfrastructure as codeEKS
- Software Engineer (Golang), Managed K8sMistral.ai · 🇫🇷Paris—RemoteGoLinuxKubernetes
- Software Engineer (Golang), Serverless ContainersMistral.ai · 🇫🇷Paris—RemoteGoLinuxKubernetes
- Security Engineer, KubernetesxAI · 🇺🇸Austin, TX; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Washington, DC$100K - $198KRustGoPython
- Cloud Operations Engineer — Linux & KubernetesRapidFort, Inc. · 🇬🇧United Kingdom—PythonTerraformGCP
- Java Backend Lead Kubernetes - VadodaraCapco · 🇮🇳India - Pune—Lead and aboveJavaSQLDocker
- Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineering (Go, Kubernetes) - Portworx EnterprisePure Storage · 🇮🇳Bangalore, India—GoKubernetesMicroservices
- Kubernetes ResearcherPointfive · 🇮🇱Tel Aviv—HybridGoGCPAzure
- Principal Software Engineer, ContainersChainguard · 🇺🇸United States - Remote$229K - $258KRemoteLead and aboveGoTerraformGCP
- Senior Kubernetes Solutions ArchitectAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Tampa, FL$120K - $235KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Kubernetes DevOps EngineerAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Hanscom AFB, MA$106K - $206KAzureCI/CDKubernetes
- Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes experience is a mustSonicWall · 🇮🇳Pune, Maharashtra, India—GoPythonTerraform
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes (Remote, European Union)Spacelift · 🇵🇱Warsaw, Poland—RemoteTerraformKubernetesAWS
- Senior Principal Engineer, Docker and EcosystemDocker · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$219K - $352KRemoteLead and aboveGCPAzureCI/CD
- Staff Software Engineer, Docker AI Substrate (Seattle or Palo Alto)Docker · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA$170K - $276KLead and aboveGoKubernetesAI
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer (K8s, Terraform, Python)Okta · 🇮🇳Bengaluru, India—SeniorGoPythonSQL
- Kubernetes Engineer (Mid–Senior) | DoD Platform EngineeringRackner · Remote—RemoteSeniorGoGCPAzure
- Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a mustSonicWall · 🇮🇳Pune, Maharashtra, India—Lead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Senior Software Engineer, Service MeshRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$197K - $243KSeniorRustGoC++
- Senior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)Schuberg Philis · 🇳🇱Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands—SeniorGoPythonGCP
- Principal Services Solutions Architect - Cloud Native & KubernetesPure Storage · 🇺🇸Raleigh, North Carolina$148K - $243KLead and aboveLinuxKubernetesInfrastructure as code
- Senior Engineer - Cloud and Container ServicesFastly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA$181K - $217KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Controllers)PlayStation Global · 🇮🇪Ireland, Dublin—GoLinuxKubernetes
- Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform (Top Secret Clearance)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$145K - $195KPythonMachine LearningLinux
- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLinux
- Senior Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $346KHybridSeniorGoPythonMachine Learning
- Software Engineer - Go/Kubernetes, Sharding teamNeo4j · 🇬🇧London; Malmö—GoJavaScala
- DevOps Engineer - Linux/KubernetesSchuberg Philis · 🇳🇱Schiphol-Rijk, North Holland, Netherlands—PythonTerraformMongoDB
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Python & KubernetesPhysicsX · 🇬🇧London—Lead and aboveGoPythonElixir
- DevOps Engineer (On-Call/Hybrid) - Linux/AWS/Docker/Terraform/Ansible/GitCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaDocker
- Systems Engineer 4 - Linux/Ansible/NiFi/KubernetesCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KLinuxKubernetesAnsible
- Systems Engineer 3 - Cisco/Juniper/Arista/Windows/Linux/Kubernetes/SecurityCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KLinuxKubernetesSecurity clearance
- Software Engineer 2/3 - Java/Git/Gradle/Docker/REST/ELK/MongoDB/Ansible/Kubernetes/LinuxCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KTypeScriptJavaDocker
- Senior Kubernetes AdministratorQuEra Computing, Inc. · 🇺🇸Boston, MA, USA$180K - $220KSeniorGoPythonDocker
- Senior Specialist Field Engineer - KubernetesCoreWeave · 🇺🇸San Francisco. CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$182K - $242KSeniorRustGoKubernetes
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Kubernetes (Remote)Pragmatike · 🇪🇪Estonia—RemoteSeniorPythonLinuxKubernetes
- Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, KubernetesFirmus Technologies · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States · +1 more location—SeniorRustGoPython
- Senior AI Engineer (Kubernetes & Customised Scheduler)Firmus Technologies · 🇸🇬Singapore—SeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Senior/Tech Lead Backend Engineer (Managed Kubernetes)Nebius · 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧Amsterdam, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; United Kingdom—Lead and aboveGoKubernetes
- Principal Software Engineer I - Serverless - Platform Control PlaneElastic · 🇺🇸United States$160K - $304KLead and aboveGoGCPAzure
- Kubernetes EngineerAccenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸Aberdeen, MD$100K - $180KGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Snowpark Container ServiceSnowflake · 🇺🇸US-CA-Menlo Park$236K - $339KHybridLead and aboveGoJavaC++
- Product Manager - Kubernetes (Remote, European Union)Spacelift · 🇵🇱Warsaw, Poland—RemoteSQLTerraformCI/CD
- Kubernetes EngineerInterSystems · 🇮🇪Dublin—GoTerraformLinux
- Software Engineer - Secure Container ImagesCanonical · Home Based - Americas; Home Based - APAC; Home based - EMEA—RustGoPython
- Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container RegistryCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$215K - $260KLead and aboveRustGoJava
- Analyst, Container RepairScout Motors · 🇺🇸Blythewood, South Carolina, United States$70K - $85K
- OpenShift Platform Engineer - DevOpsGSSTech Group · 🇮🇳Bengaluru, Karnataka, India—PythonTerraformLinux
- Senior DevOps Engineer - (OpenShift & CI/CD)GSSTech Group · 🇮🇳Bengaluru, Karnataka, India—SeniorPythonDockerTerraform
- Staff SRE for K8s Platform Team (AWS, Kubernetes, Platform Creation, Helm, Karpenter, Istio)Okta · 🇮🇳Bengaluru, India—Lead and aboveGoPythonDocker
- Senior Software Engineer (Serverless)Nebius · 🇳🇱🇬🇧Amsterdam, Netherlands; London, United Kingdom—SeniorGoGCPLLM
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Who is hiring for container and Kubernetes engineer roles
Where container and Kubernetes engineer roles are
- 🇺🇸United States83
- 🇪🇺Europe54
- 🇺🇸California26
- 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area24
- 🌏Asia-Pacific18
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom17
- 🇺🇸Seattle, WA12
- 🇮🇳India11
- 🇨🇦Canada10
- 🇮🇳Bangalore7
A role that lists several places is counted in each of them.
What container and Kubernetes engineer roles pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | $200K | 43 |
| Senior | $193K | 22 |
| Lead and above | $232K | 16 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Kinds of work close to this one
Roles where employers ask for the same skills. The bar shows how much the skill lists overlap; the text names the shared skills and, where 30 postings state pay, the median advertised pay there.
Companies hiring Kubernetes engineers
Container and Kubernetes engineer salaryQuestions about container and Kubernetes engineer jobs
- What is a container and Kubernetes engineer job?
- In a container and Kubernetes engineer job, a person runs software in containers on Kubernetes, the system most companies use to deploy services at scale. 169 such roles are open on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026.
- How many container and Kubernetes engineer jobs are open right now?
- There are 169 open container and Kubernetes engineer jobs at 58 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 26 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most container and Kubernetes engineer jobs?
- Right now the most openings are at Elastic (26), Captivation Software (24), Canonical (11), CoreWeave (5) and SpaceX (5). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote container and Kubernetes engineer jobs?
- 20 of the 169 open container and Kubernetes engineer jobs (12%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do container and Kubernetes engineer jobs pay?
- The median advertised salary is $200K, based on 81 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $178K and $216K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get a container and Kubernetes engineer job?
- 1 of the 169 open container and Kubernetes engineer jobs (1%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 66 postings that state experience, the median asks for 4 years. 58 companies are hiring and 26 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing container and Kubernetes engineer jobs?
- 19 of the 169 open container and Kubernetes engineer jobs (11%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often Machine Learning, AI, LLM. Employers still list 169 such roles today at 58 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do container and Kubernetes engineer jobs ask for?
- Most often Kubernetes (71%), Linux (56%), Python (43%), Go (42%), CI/CD (34%) of the 169 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in container and Kubernetes engineer jobs?
- Software Engineer (12), Senior Software Engineer (10), Principal Java Engineer (10), Senior Java Engineer (9), Engineering Manager (6): the most common titles among the 169 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are container and Kubernetes engineer jobs in demand in 2026?
- 169 container and Kubernetes engineer jobs are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 58 companies, 0.1% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 26 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $200K. 20 (12%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for container and Kubernetes engineer jobs?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Jobs Every Hour needs no account and charges nothing for applying.
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