Which roles ask for Cloud Native at tech companies · 78 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
78 roles counted that list Cloud Native, one per company, title and level; 161 postings in the window.
In short
Cloud Native: listed in 78 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 54 and preferred in 24. The largest group is software engineer roles: 35 of 78 (45%).
- Required
- 54 of 78 (69%)
- Of the roles that list Cloud Native
- Preferred
- 24 of 78 (31%)
- Of the roles that list Cloud Native
- Largest group
- 35 of 78 (45%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Cloud Native
Roles listing Cloud Native, 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 | 35 | 35 of 719 (5%) |
| Security engineer | 13 | 13 of 126 (10%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 8 | 8 of 70 (11%) |
| Data engineer | 5 | 5 of 99 (5%) |
| Platform engineer | 5 | 5 of 57 (9%) |
| DevOps engineer | 3 | 3 of 58 (5%) |
| QA engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
| Software architect | 3 | 3 of 32 |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 78 Cloud Native roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 38 of 78 (49%) |
| CI/CD | 36 of 78 (46%) |
| Kubernetes | 34 of 78 (44%) |
| AWS | 32 of 78 (41%) |
| Go | 32 of 78 (41%) |
| Distributed Systems | 28 of 78 (36%) |
| Observability | 25 of 78 (32%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 24 of 78 (31%) |
| Terraform | 22 of 78 (28%) |
| Docker | 19 of 78 (24%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AI | 11 of 78 (14%) |
| GCP | 9 of 78 (12%) |
| Open Source | 9 of 78 (12%) |
| Observability | 8 of 78 (10%) |
| SOC 2 | 8 of 78 (10%) |
| Azure | 7 of 78 (9%) |
| CI/CD | 7 of 78 (9%) |
| Kubernetes | 7 of 78 (9%) |
| Monitoring | 6 of 78 (8%) |
| AWS | 5 of 78 (6%) |
Experience
Of the 36 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 36 of 36
- 2+ years
- 36 of 36
- 3+ years
- 36 of 36
- 5+ years
- 26 of 36
- 8+ years
- 10 of 36
- 10+ years
- 2 of 36
Degree
Of the 52 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 5 of 52 (10%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 11 of 52 (21%)
- Preferred
- 1 of 52 (2%)
- Not mentioned
- 35 of 52 (67%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 78 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 34 of 78 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 51 of 78 (65%)
How we count: 78 roles from 61 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