Systems Engineers keep the operating-system layer running at scale — Linux fleets, virtualization, patching and configuration management, storage, and the backup and recovery plans that survive outages. It is the classic infrastructure discipline, now blended with automation and cloud.
We're currently tracking 50 open Systems Engineer positions across our listings. These roles span on-site, hybrid, and remote teams at companies of every size, so whether you're looking for your first Systems Engineer role or a senior leadership seat, there are live openings to explore and apply to today.
Salary range from 26 live Systems Engineer listings on this page with disclosed yearly pay (USD).
Systems Engineer salaries typically range from $95K to $150K in the US and €55K to €80K in Europe. Linux internals depth, automation skills, and experience with large fleets command the higher end. Based on 26 live listings on this page with disclosed yearly pay, the median currently sits around $116K.
Deep Linux (systemd, performance tuning, package lifecycle), configuration management (Ansible, Puppet), virtualization and containers (VMware, KVM, Kubernetes operations), storage and backup systems, and scripting with Bash and Python.
Mixed — much of the work is automatable and remote, but hardware installs, data-center work, and physical infrastructure keep a share of roles on-site or hybrid. Remote-friendly listings are common and growing.
A systems engineer designs and automates fleets at scale rather than administering individual servers; compared with an SRE, the focus stays on the OS, virtualization, and storage layer rather than services and reliability metrics. In practice the titles overlap — read each listing's scope.
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