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Database Optimization: listed in 42 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026. It was required in 32 and preferred in 10. The largest group is software engineer roles: 31 of 42.

Required
32 of 42
Of the roles that list Database Optimization
Preferred
10 of 42
Of the roles that list Database Optimization
Largest group
31 of 42
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Database Optimization

Roles listing Database Optimization, 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 engineer3131 of 2,466
Data engineer44 of 364
Site reliability engineer22 of 219
Analytics engineer11 of 105
Data analyst11 of 215
Data architect11 of 50
Data scientist11 of 416
DevOps engineer11 of 168

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Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 42 Database Optimization roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
PostgreSQL
16 of 42
AWS
15 of 42
Data Modeling
15 of 42
Python
15 of 42
SQL
15 of 42
CI/CD
12 of 42
REST
12 of 42
Relational Databases
12 of 42
Debugging
11 of 42
Query Optimization
11 of 42
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Docker
10 of 42
Infrastructure as Code
10 of 42
CI/CD
8 of 42
Kubernetes
7 of 42
AWS
6 of 42
AI
5 of 42
Terraform
5 of 42
AWS Lambda
4 of 42
Amazon S3
4 of 42
Caching
4 of 42

Experience

Asked most often: 5–7 years, 14 of 34.

Of the 34 roles that state years

Under 2 years
0 of 34
2 years
2 of 34
3–4 years
7 of 34
5–7 years
14 of 34
8–9 years
3 of 34
10+ years
8 of 34

Degree

4 of 41 require a degree, and 12 more accept experience instead.

Of the 41 roles we could read for it

Required
4 of 41
Required, or experience instead
12 of 41
Preferred
1 of 41
Not mentioned
24 of 41

Pay and remote work

Of the 42 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
19 of 42
Remote roles
34 of 42

How we count: 42 roles from 40 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