What staff platform engineer roles require at tech companies · 6 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
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6 staff platform engineer roles counted in the window. Browse 415 open software postings.
In short
Go, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and 1 other are required most often, each in 5 of 6 staff platform engineer roles at tech companies whose requirements we read in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, then Incident Response (4) and Observability (4). Among roles that state years, 3 of 4 ask for at least 8 years.
- Go, Infrastructure as Code and 2 others
- 5 of 6
- Each required this often, tied for most
- 5+ years
- 4 of 4
- Of roles stating years
- Remote roles
- 2 of 6
- Of the roles we could read for it
What the postings ask for
Out of the 6 roles whose requirements we could read, of 6 in all. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Go | 5 of 6 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 5 of 6 |
| Kubernetes | 5 of 6 |
| Terraform | 5 of 6 |
| Incident Response | 4 of 6 |
| Observability | 4 of 6 |
| Python | 4 of 6 |
| AWS | 2 of 6 |
| Distributed Systems | 2 of 6 |
| Identity and Access Management | 2 of 6 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Capacity Planning | 2 of 6 |
| Cybersecurity | 2 of 6 |
| Service Mesh | 2 of 6 |
| Temporal | 2 of 6 |
| Argo CD | 1 of 6 |
| BGP | 1 of 6 |
| Build Systems | 1 of 6 |
| CI/CD | 1 of 6 |
| Cloud Native | 1 of 6 |
| Cost Optimization | 1 of 6 |
Experience
Of the 4 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 4 of 4
- 2+ years
- 4 of 4
- 3+ years
- 4 of 4
- 5+ years
- 4 of 4
- 8+ years
- 3 of 4
- 10+ years
- 0 of 4
Degree
Of the 6 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 0 of 6
- Required, or experience instead
- 1 of 6
- Preferred
- 0 of 6
- Not mentioned
- 5 of 6
Pay and remote work
Of the 6 roles we could read for it
- Roles stating pay
- 3 of 6
- Remote roles
- 2 of 6
Questions about staff platform engineer roles
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Companies with the most platform engineer roles
- Akamai Technologies2 roles
- Black Financial Consult2 roles
- Coinbase2 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions2 roles
- uvation2 roles
- 1Password1 role
- Anthropic1 role
- BMO1 role
- Baseten1 role
- BigHand1 role
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How we count: 6 roles in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Methodology