Which roles ask for Debugging at tech companies · 205 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
205 roles counted that list Debugging, one per company, title and level; 830 postings in the window.
In short
Debugging: listed in 205 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 176 and preferred in 29. The largest group is software engineer roles: 123 of 205 (60%).
- Required
- 176 of 205 (86%)
- Of the roles that list Debugging
- Preferred
- 29 of 205 (14%)
- Of the roles that list Debugging
- Largest group
- 123 of 205 (60%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Debugging
Roles listing Debugging, 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 | 123 | 123 of 719 (17%) |
| Mobile engineer | 12 | 12 of 38 |
| Site reliability engineer | 10 | 10 of 70 (14%) |
| AI engineer | 9 | 9 of 70 (13%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 9 | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| QA engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| Data engineer | 7 | 7 of 99 (7%) |
| Platform engineer | 7 | 7 of 57 (12%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 6 | 6 of 79 (8%) |
| Security engineer | 6 | 6 of 126 (5%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- OpenAI9 roles
- Cohere6 roles
- Akamai Technologies5 roles
- Stripe5 roles
- CoreWeave4 roles
- Crusoe4 roles
- Replit4 roles
- goPro Consultancy Group ltd.4 roles
- Cognition3 roles
- Zscaler3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 205 Debugging roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 87 of 205 (42%) |
| CI/CD | 53 of 205 (26%) |
| Distributed Systems | 51 of 205 (25%) |
| TypeScript | 48 of 205 (23%) |
| Go | 42 of 205 (20%) |
| Git | 40 of 205 (20%) |
| REST | 40 of 205 (20%) |
| AI | 37 of 205 (18%) |
| Kubernetes | 37 of 205 (18%) |
| AWS | 34 of 205 (17%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 28 of 205 (14%) |
| AWS | 24 of 205 (12%) |
| Kubernetes | 21 of 205 (10%) |
| Docker | 19 of 205 (9%) |
| Observability | 17 of 205 (8%) |
| Performance Optimization | 15 of 205 (7%) |
| AI | 14 of 205 (7%) |
| Azure | 14 of 205 (7%) |
| Terraform | 14 of 205 (7%) |
| Event-Driven Architecture | 13 of 205 (6%) |
Experience
Of the 105 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 104 of 105 (99%)
- 2+ years
- 102 of 105 (97%)
- 3+ years
- 91 of 105 (87%)
- 5+ years
- 68 of 105 (65%)
- 8+ years
- 23 of 105 (22%)
- 10+ years
- 9 of 105 (9%)
Degree
Of the 150 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 21 of 150 (14%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 30 of 150 (20%)
- Preferred
- 5 of 150 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 94 of 150 (63%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 205 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $182.1k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 86 of 205 (42%)
- Remote roles
- 135 of 205 (66%)
How we count: 205 roles from 140 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