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In short

Database Internals: listed in 22 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026. It was required in 11 and preferred in 11. The largest group is software engineer roles: 20 of 22.

Required
11 of 22
Of the roles that list Database Internals
Preferred
11 of 22
Of the roles that list Database Internals
Largest group
20 of 22
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Database Internals

Roles listing Database Internals, 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
Software engineer2020 of 2,466
Machine learning engineer11 of 323
Site reliability engineer11 of 219

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Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 22 Database Internals roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Distributed Systems
13 of 22
Java
12 of 22
C++
11 of 22
Python
9 of 22
Algorithms
8 of 22
Go
8 of 22
Data Structures
7 of 22
AWS
6 of 22
Concurrency
6 of 22
Databases
6 of 22
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Kubernetes
6 of 22
AWS
5 of 22
Azure
5 of 22
Distributed Systems
5 of 22
GCP
5 of 22
Cloud Infrastructure
4 of 22
Data Infrastructure
4 of 22
Databases
4 of 22
Go
4 of 22
Open Source
4 of 22

Experience

Asked most often: 5–7 years, 8 of 19.

Of the 19 roles that state years

Under 2 years
0 of 19
2 years
2 of 19
3–4 years
2 of 19
5–7 years
8 of 19
8–9 years
1 of 19
10+ years
6 of 19

Degree

6 of 22 require a degree, and 2 more accept experience instead.

Of the 22 roles we could read for it

Required
6 of 22
Required, or experience instead
2 of 22
Preferred
0 of 22
Not mentioned
14 of 22

Pay and remote work

Of the 22 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
11 of 22
Remote roles
3 of 22

How we count: 22 roles from 14 employers in the 90 days to Oct 16, 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