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Which roles ask for Cost Optimization at tech companies · 33 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

Updated Oct 7, 2026

33 roles counted that list Cost Optimization, one per company, title and level; 67 postings in the window.

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In short

Cost Optimization: listed in 33 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 17 and preferred in 16. The largest group is data engineer roles: 8 of 33.

Required: 17 of 33; Of the roles that list Cost Optimization
Preferred: 16 of 33; Of the roles that list Cost Optimization
Largest group: 8 of 33; Data engineer

Roles that ask for Cost Optimization

Roles listing Cost Optimization, 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
Data engineer	8	8 of 99
Platform engineer	6	6 of 57
DevOps engineer	4	4 of 58
Software architect	4	4 of 32
AI engineer	3	3 of 70
Research scientist	2	2 of 39
Site reliability engineer	2	2 of 70
Software engineer	2	2 of 719
Data architect	1	1 of 11
Forward deployed engineer	1	1 of 63

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 33 Cost Optimization roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
Skill	Roles asking
Python	21 of 33
CI/CD	19 of 33
Identity and Access Management	15 of 33
Infrastructure as Code	15 of 33
AWS	14 of 33
Terraform	14 of 33
Kubernetes	12 of 33
Networking	10 of 33
SQL	10 of 33
AI	9 of 33

Preferred
Skill	Roles asking
Observability	7 of 33
AWS	4 of 33
Cloud Native	4 of 33
Machine Learning	4 of 33
Monitoring	4 of 33
Open Source	4 of 33
Performance Optimization	4 of 33
Terraform	4 of 33
AWS CloudFormation	3 of 33
Argo CD	3 of 33

Experience

Of the 19 roles that state years

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

1+ year: 19 of 19
2+ years: 19 of 19
3+ years: 18 of 19
5+ years: 17 of 19
8+ years: 7 of 19
10+ years: 3 of 19

Degree

Of the 25 roles we could read for it

Required: 1 of 25
Required, or experience instead: 5 of 25
Preferred: 2 of 25
Not mentioned: 17 of 25

Pay and remote work

Of the 33 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay: 14 of 33
Remote roles: 26 of 33

How we count: 33 roles 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