Which roles ask for Data Infrastructure at tech companies · 91 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
91 roles counted that list Data Infrastructure, one per company, title and level; 355 postings in the window.
In short
Data Infrastructure: listed in 91 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 59 and preferred in 32. The largest group is data engineer roles: 29 of 91 (32%).
- Required
- 59 of 91 (65%)
- Of the roles that list Data Infrastructure
- Preferred
- 32 of 91 (35%)
- Of the roles that list Data Infrastructure
- Largest group
- 29 of 91 (32%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for Data Infrastructure
Roles listing Data Infrastructure, 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 | 29 | 29 of 99 (29%) |
| Software engineer | 28 | 28 of 719 (4%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 7 | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| Data architect | 5 | 5 of 11 |
| Data scientist | 5 | 5 of 112 (4%) |
| Research scientist | 5 | 5 of 39 |
| Analytics engineer | 3 | 3 of 28 |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 2 | 2 of 79 (3%) |
| Platform engineer | 2 | 2 of 57 (4%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Databricks6 roles
- Anthropic3 roles
- Glean3 roles
- Harvey3 roles
- Abnormal2 roles
- CoreWeave2 roles
- Cribl2 roles
- Pika2 roles
- Snorkel AI2 roles
- Spotify2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 91 Data Infrastructure roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 60 of 91 (66%) |
| SQL | 35 of 91 (38%) |
| Data Modeling | 31 of 91 (34%) |
| AWS | 30 of 91 (33%) |
| CI/CD | 26 of 91 (29%) |
| AI | 23 of 91 (25%) |
| Distributed Systems | 22 of 91 (24%) |
| Azure | 21 of 91 (23%) |
| Data Warehousing | 20 of 91 (22%) |
| Spark | 20 of 91 (22%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Data Pipelines | 11 of 91 (12%) |
| Data Warehousing | 10 of 91 (11%) |
| LLMs | 10 of 91 (11%) |
| Machine Learning | 10 of 91 (11%) |
| Kafka | 9 of 91 (10%) |
| Open Source | 9 of 91 (10%) |
| Stream Processing | 9 of 91 (10%) |
| Cybersecurity | 8 of 91 (9%) |
| Data Quality | 8 of 91 (9%) |
| Databricks | 8 of 91 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 52 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 52 of 52 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 52 of 52 (100%)
- 3+ years
- 50 of 52 (96%)
- 5+ years
- 41 of 52 (79%)
- 8+ years
- 11 of 52 (21%)
- 10+ years
- 2 of 52 (4%)
Degree
Of the 72 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 4 of 72 (6%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 12 of 72 (17%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 72 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 53 of 72 (74%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 91 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 43 of 91 (47%)
- Remote roles
- 53 of 91 (58%)
How we count: 91 roles from 70 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