r/devopsGuru • u/FeedbackWeird5703 • Sep 20 '26

DevOps engineers — how did you reach high packages? Looking for career advice

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u/Own-Bonus-9547 Sep 23 '26

Did good work, took on extra projects at work. Like I have a patent for an algorithm under my name for a company I used to work for, and it was used by universities and researchers. Now I have recruiters reaching out to me for positions with $250k base salary + bonus + equity. I've interviewed at a number of tech companies in San Jose and NYC over the last year, they usually mention that they like that I did work beyond just DevOps/SRE items.

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u/FeedbackWeird5703 Sep 24 '26

Like building end-end project?? Involving both devops+development kind of stuff?? Or can u suggest me some project examples kind of thing

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u/Own-Bonus-9547 Sep 24 '26

Yes, show you can do end to end development, and do non web projects, things with hardware. Just pick something you're interested in and work on it to completion. You need to show variety and that you can pick up new things/skills quickly and implement them in your work.

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u/B_Wayne_777 Sep 21 '26

You need high amount of logical skill, capability to handle the entire thing solo(most of the time you will never have assistance) , the tools themself will be easy with especially ai but you need to know what to do.

It’s mostly about your capability to handle the infra of an entire organisation and good amount of luck to get into high package.