Which roles ask for Authentication at tech companies · 80 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
80 roles counted that list Authentication, one per company, title and level; 213 postings in the window.
In short
Authentication: listed in 80 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 61 and preferred in 19. The largest group is software engineer roles: 37 of 80 (46%).
- Required
- 61 of 80 (76%)
- Of the roles that list Authentication
- Preferred
- 19 of 80 (24%)
- Of the roles that list Authentication
- Largest group
- 37 of 80 (46%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Authentication
Roles listing Authentication, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 37 | 37 of 719 (5%) |
| Security engineer | 20 | 20 of 126 (16%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 5 | 5 of 63 (8%) |
| Platform engineer | 5 | 5 of 57 (9%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 3 | 3 of 79 (4%) |
| Mobile engineer | 3 | 3 of 38 |
| DevOps engineer | 2 | 2 of 58 (3%) |
| AI engineer | 1 | 1 of 70 (1%) |
| Data scientist | 1 | 1 of 112 (1%) |
| QA engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Okta5 roles
- Akamai Technologies4 roles
- Palantir3 roles
- Stripe3 roles
- Cloudflare2 roles
- CoreWeave2 roles
- Crusoe2 roles
- GitLab2 roles
- Replit2 roles
- abridge2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 80 Authentication roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Authorization | 43 of 80 (54%) |
| Python | 32 of 80 (40%) |
| CI/CD | 25 of 80 (31%) |
| Cybersecurity | 25 of 80 (31%) |
| Go | 22 of 80 (28%) |
| Kubernetes | 19 of 80 (24%) |
| REST | 19 of 80 (24%) |
| AWS | 18 of 80 (23%) |
| Distributed Systems | 18 of 80 (23%) |
| Docker | 18 of 80 (23%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AI | 14 of 80 (18%) |
| AWS | 11 of 80 (14%) |
| CI/CD | 10 of 80 (13%) |
| Identity and Access Management | 10 of 80 (13%) |
| Kubernetes | 10 of 80 (13%) |
| AI Agents | 8 of 80 (10%) |
| Cybersecurity | 8 of 80 (10%) |
| Monitoring | 8 of 80 (10%) |
| Observability | 8 of 80 (10%) |
| SOC 2 | 8 of 80 (10%) |
Experience
Of the 41 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 41 of 41
- 2+ years
- 41 of 41
- 3+ years
- 38 of 41
- 5+ years
- 24 of 41
- 8+ years
- 8 of 41
- 10+ years
- 6 of 41
Degree
Of the 62 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 2 of 62 (3%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 13 of 62 (21%)
- Preferred
- 0 of 62 (0%)
- Not mentioned
- 47 of 62 (76%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 80 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 35 of 80 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 45 of 80 (56%)
How we count: 80 roles from 57 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