Which roles ask for Design Review at tech companies · 50 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
50 roles counted that list Design Review, one per company, title and level; 188 postings in the window.
In short
Design Review: listed in 50 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 34 and preferred in 16. The largest group is software engineer roles: 25 of 50 (50%).
- Required
- 34 of 50 (68%)
- Of the roles that list Design Review
- Preferred
- 16 of 50 (32%)
- Of the roles that list Design Review
- Largest group
- 25 of 50 (50%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Design Review
Roles listing Design Review, 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 | 25 | 25 of 719 (3%) |
| Security engineer | 6 | 6 of 126 (5%) |
| Data engineer | 3 | 3 of 99 (3%) |
| Platform engineer | 3 | 3 of 57 (5%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Data scientist | 2 | 2 of 112 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 2 | 2 of 79 (3%) |
| QA engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Software architect | 2 | 2 of 32 |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Cloudflare5 roles
- OpenAI3 roles
- Akamai Technologies2 roles
- Coinbase2 roles
- Datadog2 roles
- Harvey2 roles
- Relay2 roles
- abridge2 roles
- AF Group1 role
- Okta1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 50 Design Review roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 20 of 50 (40%) |
| CI/CD | 18 of 50 (36%) |
| Observability | 15 of 50 (30%) |
| Go | 14 of 50 (28%) |
| Incident Response | 14 of 50 (28%) |
| Kubernetes | 12 of 50 (24%) |
| AWS | 10 of 50 (20%) |
| Distributed Systems | 10 of 50 (20%) |
| TypeScript | 9 of 50 (18%) |
| Identity and Access Management | 8 of 50 (16%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 9 of 50 (18%) |
| GCP | 8 of 50 (16%) |
| PostgreSQL | 7 of 50 (14%) |
| Terraform | 6 of 50 (12%) |
| AWS | 5 of 50 (10%) |
| Cybersecurity | 5 of 50 (10%) |
| Docker | 5 of 50 (10%) |
| Azure | 4 of 50 (8%) |
| CI/CD | 4 of 50 (8%) |
| LLMs | 4 of 50 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 30 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 30 of 30
- 2+ years
- 30 of 30
- 3+ years
- 30 of 30
- 5+ years
- 28 of 30
- 8+ years
- 11 of 30
- 10+ years
- 7 of 30
Degree
Of the 39 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 3 of 39
- Required, or experience instead
- 6 of 39
- Preferred
- 2 of 39
- Not mentioned
- 28 of 39
Pay and remote work
Of the 50 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 25 of 50 (50%)
- Remote roles
- 25 of 50 (50%)
How we count: 50 roles from 38 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