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Which roles ask for Capacity Planning at tech companies · 30 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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30 roles counted that list Capacity Planning, one per company, title and level; 129 postings in the window.

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In short

Capacity Planning: listed in 30 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 20 and preferred in 10. The largest groups, tied, are platform engineer and software engineer roles: 10 of 30 each.

Required
20 of 30
Of the roles that list Capacity Planning
Preferred
10 of 30
Of the roles that list Capacity Planning
Largest group
10 of 30
Platform engineer and Software engineer

Roles that ask for Capacity Planning

Roles listing Capacity Planning, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Platform engineer1010 of 57
Software engineer1010 of 719
Site reliability engineer66 of 70
Data analyst11 of 47
Data scientist11 of 112
DevOps engineer11 of 58
Software architect11 of 32

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 30 Capacity Planning roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Observability
19 of 30
Kubernetes
18 of 30
Distributed Systems
17 of 30
Go
16 of 30
Incident Response
16 of 30
Python
16 of 30
Networking
14 of 30
Infrastructure as Code
13 of 30
Terraform
12 of 30
Monitoring
11 of 30
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
AI Infrastructure
4 of 30
AWS
3 of 30
CI/CD
3 of 30
Cybersecurity
3 of 30
Model Serving
3 of 30
Observability
3 of 30
Open Source
3 of 30
Service Mesh
3 of 30
Azure
2 of 30
Chaos Engineering
2 of 30

Experience

Of the 16 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
16 of 16
2+ years
16 of 16
3+ years
15 of 16
5+ years
14 of 16
8+ years
7 of 16
10+ years
3 of 16

Degree

Of the 22 roles we could read for it

Required
1 of 22
Required, or experience instead
2 of 22
Preferred
1 of 22
Not mentioned
18 of 22

Pay and remote work

Of the 30 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
16 of 30
Remote roles
16 of 30

How we count: 30 roles from 25 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