My suggestion would be to be completely up front in what you&#x27;re willing to pay, even going so far as to add it to the job description.  If that means you have salary &#x27;bands&#x27; dependent on what region of the US an applicant is from, put &#x27;em up.<p>Ninja-edit: also, if the money just isn&#x27;t there, consider taking on someone on a part-time basis.  $80k&#x2F;yr is terrible FT wages for the senior-level folks you&#x27;re looking for, but if you say &quot;We&#x27;ll pay you $80k, and you just clock in M-W 9-5 (or M-F 9-1, however the math makes sense for you to divvy up a 20-hour week)&quot; I think you&#x27;ll see an uptick in interested, qualified applicants.  Yes, it&#x27;s a compromise (just like asking a senior-level anything to show up for $80k) but at least you&#x27;ll get the senior-level brainpower on the team and still be within your budget.<p>Ninja-edit x2: Looking at the &#x27;Team&#x27; page, I&#x27;m not getting a good sense of where your devops&#x2F;engineering talent hails from.  The folks who appear the most USian are the guy who lives &#x27;on a farm&#x27;, another who &#x27;attends SFO Giants games&#x27;, a third who &#x27;enjoys the slopes in the Sierra Nevadas&#x27;, etc.  Everyone else&#x27;s location is either unmentioned, or they seem to hail from Brazil, the UK, Greece, etc.  The interactive map at the top seems to be mapping the accounts of suits and c-levels, but very few devops&#x2F;engineers.