Cloud Engineer vs Full Stack Developer
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Cloud Engineer
$151,500 typical, a year
Most Cloud Engineers earn $126,800 to $176,300 a year.
From 1,287 postings that list pay
2,522 open jobs now
Full Stack Developer
$184,300 typical, a year
Most Full Stack Developers earn $153,600 to $210,000 a year.
From 517 postings that list pay
922 open jobs now
Full Stack Developers typically earn about $32,900 more a year than Cloud Engineers.
What each one does
Cloud Engineer
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Manage and provision cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability using observability tools.
- Respond to alerts, outages, and incidents to restore service.
- Implement and maintain security best practices and access controls.
- Collaborate with software, data, and facilities teams to support environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Full Stack Developer
- Design, develop, and test software applications across the full stack.
- Write clean, secure, and maintainable code that meets engineering standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and solutions.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and share knowledge.
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues in development and production environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 6 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
Full Stack Developer
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 2 in 10 postings
- AWS 2 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 2 in 10 postings
- Python 3 in 10 postings
More common in Full Stack Developer postings
- React 4 in 10 postings
- TypeScript 4 in 10 postings
- Full-Stack Development 3 in 10 postings
- JavaScript 2 in 10 postings
- Java 2 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Cloud Engineer
ASKUSR0148805 Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE) - HPC Operations
Essnova Solutions, Inc.$80/hr Employer statedBerkeley, California, United StatesPrometheusFirewallsPythonObservabilityServiceNow +12Mid-Level DevSecOps Engineer
Citrix Systems$87,100 - $157,450/yrstated Gaithersburg, MD; Alexandria, VA; Chantilly, VA; Tucson, AZ; Englewood, COTerraformCI/CDAzureKubernetesBash +16DevOps Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton$99k - $225k/yrstated Lexington, MA; McLean, VA; San Antonio, TX OnsiteAWSKubernetesDockerAzureJenkins +4
Full Stack Developer
- Pay not stated San Francisco OnsiteTypeScriptNode.jsReactUX/UI DesignFull-Stack Development +1
Software Development Team Lead
Unnamed employerPay not stated Hudson, OH, 44236 HybridCSSAzureJavaScriptCI/CDTypeScript +18Software Engineer
AlcumusPay not stated Boise, Idaho, Boise, IdahoAngularJavaC#Agile MethodologyTest Planning +2
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