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The TekTake • Issue #42Tuesday Brief

Engineering Intelligence

Cloud & AI Compensation Shifts in Q2

Platform engineers seeing 14% base salary premium across tier-1 distributed teams.

Q2 Median Base Growth+14.2% YoY
$198kCloud
$225kML Eng
$182kDevOps
$168kFullstack

Key Recruiter Takeaways:

  • Multi-cloud Kubernetes certs now bypass initial HR filters automatically.
  • Sign-on equity vesting accelerating to 1-year cliff with quarterly tranches.
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