Hiring guide · Engineering
How to hire a
DevOps / Platform engineer.
Platform / DevOps engineers run your infrastructure. The right hire depends on cloud preference and scale.
Comp range$140k-$280k base.
Timeline8-14 weeks.
When to hire
Hire in-house
You have multiple services, real on-call rotation needed, or compliance requirements.
When to outsource
Outsource to a studio
Your infra is one Vercel + one Supabase. Hire later.
Evaluation · 02
Signs of strong candidates.
Strong signals
- Has shipped production CI/CD
- Comfortable with Terraform / Pulumi
- On-call experience
- Compliance experience (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.) if relevant
- Cost-aware
Red flags
- ✗Only homelab experience
- ✗No production debugging in incidents
- ✗No compliance awareness
- ✗Can't write Terraform from scratch
- ✗No cost optimization experience
Interview · 03
Questions to ask.
- Q1
Walk me through your last bad outage. What did you do?
- Q2
How do you set up CI/CD for a new repo?
- Q3
When would you reach for Kubernetes?
- Q4
How do you manage secrets at scale?
- Q5
How would you reduce our AWS bill?
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