Cloud Engineer vs Software Engineer
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 $175,500 a year.
From 1,378 postings that list pay
2,769 open jobs now
Software Engineer
$172,500 typical, a year
Most Software Engineers earn $141,900 to $207,500 a year.
From 10,599 postings that list pay
22,254 open jobs now
Software Engineers typically earn about $21,000 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
Software Engineer
- Design and develop software applications using programming languages and frameworks.
- Write and maintain code to ensure functionality, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver solutions.
- Test and debug software to identify and fix defects in development and production.
- Deploy and maintain applications in cloud environments or production systems.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment processes.
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
- Python 4 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 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
Software Engineer
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 2 in 10 postings
- AWS 2 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
More common in Software Engineer postings
- Technical Degree 3 in 10 postings
- C++ 2 in 10 postings
- Software Development 2 in 10 postings
- TypeScript 2 in 10 postings
- Java 2 in 10 postings
- React 2 in 10 postings
- Code Review 2 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Cloud Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Clearent$150k - $180k/yrstated Remote, OR, United StatesPostgreSQLTerraformRedisObservabilityAWS +14Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud SRE and Automation
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association$108k - $130k/yrstated Penn Center - Denver, CO 80203 HybridPythonBashPowerShellArgoCDGitHub Actions +15Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Platform
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association$108k - $130k/yrstated Penn Center - Denver, CO 80203 HybridCI/CDPythonBashTerraformVulnerability Management +18
Software Engineer
- $295,250 - $345,040/yrstated San Mateo, CA, United StatesTypeScriptReactJavaPythonC# +4
Software Senior Principal Engineer
Dell EMC$200k - $275k/yrstated Round Rock, TX, United States OnsiteKubernetesDistributed SystemsAWSDesign ReviewsSenior Developer, IT ERP
CECO EnvironmentalPay not stated Addison, TX, USSQLSystem IntegrationAzureEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Microsoft Dynamics 365 +3
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