Which roles ask for Alerting at tech companies · 82 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
82 roles counted that list Alerting, one per company, title and level; 174 postings in the window.
In short
Alerting: listed in 82 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 57 and preferred in 25. The largest groups, tied, are site reliability engineer and software engineer roles: 22 of 82 (27%) each.
- Required
- 57 of 82 (70%)
- Of the roles that list Alerting
- Preferred
- 25 of 82 (30%)
- Of the roles that list Alerting
- Largest group
- 22 of 82 (27%)
- Site reliability engineer and Software engineer
Roles that ask for Alerting
Roles listing Alerting, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Site reliability engineer | 22 | 22 of 70 (31%) |
| Software engineer | 22 | 22 of 719 (3%) |
| Data engineer | 10 | 10 of 99 (10%) |
| DevOps engineer | 10 | 10 of 58 (17%) |
| Platform engineer | 9 | 9 of 57 (16%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
| Security engineer | 3 | 3 of 126 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 2 | 2 of 79 (3%) |
| QA engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Akamai Technologies5 roles
- GitLab4 roles
- Be | Shaping the Future3 roles
- Crusoe3 roles
- Okta3 roles
- Zscaler3 roles
- Cloudflare2 roles
- CoreWeave2 roles
- Palantir2 roles
- WorkOS2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 82 Alerting roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 53 of 82 (65%) |
| CI/CD | 46 of 82 (56%) |
| Monitoring | 42 of 82 (51%) |
| Observability | 41 of 82 (50%) |
| AWS | 39 of 82 (48%) |
| Kubernetes | 39 of 82 (48%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 35 of 82 (43%) |
| Terraform | 34 of 82 (41%) |
| Incident Response | 31 of 82 (38%) |
| Docker | 28 of 82 (34%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Monitoring | 18 of 82 (22%) |
| Observability | 12 of 82 (15%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 11 of 82 (13%) |
| AI | 10 of 82 (12%) |
| Incident Response | 9 of 82 (11%) |
| Logging | 9 of 82 (11%) |
| Machine Learning | 9 of 82 (11%) |
| Terraform | 9 of 82 (11%) |
| Kubernetes | 8 of 82 (10%) |
| Open Source | 8 of 82 (10%) |
Experience
Of the 38 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 38 of 38
- 2+ years
- 38 of 38
- 3+ years
- 37 of 38
- 5+ years
- 26 of 38
- 8+ years
- 11 of 38
- 10+ years
- 4 of 38
Degree
Of the 56 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 4 of 56 (7%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 8 of 56 (14%)
- Preferred
- 1 of 56 (2%)
- Not mentioned
- 43 of 56 (77%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 82 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 32 of 82 (39%)
- Remote roles
- 55 of 82 (67%)
How we count: 82 roles from 63 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology