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This Week's Issue

Platform engineering roles worth leaving your current stack for.

WednesdayFebruary 25, 202614 Roles This Week

DevOps rolesworth reading.

Curated weekly for engineers who have better things to do than refresh LinkedIn.

Featured

Staff Platform Engineer

Meridian Systems

$195k–$230k
Remote (US)·Full-time
TerraformArgoCDCrossplaneGKE

Senior SRE — Reliability

Lattice Infrastructure

$175k–$210k
New York, NY·Hybrid
PrometheusGrafanaGoKubernetes
New

Principal DevOps Engineer

Halcyon Cloud

$220k–$260k
Remote (Global)·Contract
PulumiFluxAWS EKSVault
Sample from Issue No. 47 — 11 more inside
TerraformArgoCDKubernetesCrossplanePulumiPrometheusGrafanaFluxVaultAWS EKSGKEAzure AKSBackstageHelmOpenTelemetryCiliumIstio
The Brief

The DevOps hiring landscape is noisy. Engineers deserve curation over aggregation — roles read by engineers, not scraped by bots.

Every Wednesday morning, a working platform engineer reads through the week's open roles. Not an algorithm. Not a scraper. A person who has written Terraform modules at 2am and knows what "strong Kubernetes experience" actually means.

The ones that make the cut ship to your inbox. The ones that don't — ghost listings, salary-on-request, "rockstar DevOps ninja" — stay in the pile.

Deploy started because senior engineers kept saying the same thing: "I'm not actively looking, but I'd move for the right thing." The right thing needs to find you — not the other way around.

One email. Once a week. No recruiter DMs. No sponsored listings. No bullshit.

Editorial Principles
01

No ghost listings.

Every role is verified open within 72 hours of publication. If it closes before Wednesday, it doesn't ship.

02

No hidden salaries.

Every listing carries a real compensation band. Not "competitive." Not "DOE." A number.

03

No recruiter spam.

Roles come from engineering leads and hiring managers — not agency pipelines. Your inbox stays clean.

04

Editorial review.

Each role is read by a working platform engineer. Vague JDs, impossible requirements, and buzzword bingo get cut.

Every mark earned.

The Archive

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Full Archive
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Issue 44Feb 04, 2026

The Kubernetes migration wave: 11 senior roles building k8s-native platforms from scratch

62.4% open rate

"Found my current role through Issue 44. The stack tags saved me three hours of JD archaeology."

Marcus Webb, Platform Lead, Fintech startup

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Issue 45Feb 11, 2026

SRE or Platform Eng? This week's 9 roles make the distinction clear — and worth $30k

58.1% open rate

"The salary transparency alone is worth the subscription. Finally something that respects my time."

Priya Nair, Senior SRE, Healthcare scale-up

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Issue 46Feb 18, 2026

GitOps at scale: 7 companies hiring for ArgoCD, Flux, and Crossplane expertise

61.7% open rate

"Deploy is the only job newsletter I haven't unsubscribed from. That's the review."

Daniel Osei, DevOps Engineer, Enterprise SaaS

I've been in platform engineering for eight years. Deploy is the first jobs newsletter I've read more than twice.

— Aiko Tanaka, Staff Platform Engineer

By the numbers
Avg. open rate61%
Roles per issue12–16
Subscribers2,847
Ghost listings published0

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