Which roles ask for Distributed Systems at tech companies · 315 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
315 roles counted that list Distributed Systems, one per company, title and level; 1,134 postings in the window.
In short
Distributed Systems: listed in 315 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 259 and preferred in 56. The largest group is software engineer roles: 174 of 315 (55%).
- Required
- 259 of 315 (82%)
- Of the roles that list Distributed Systems
- Preferred
- 56 of 315 (18%)
- Of the roles that list Distributed Systems
- Largest group
- 174 of 315 (55%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Distributed Systems
Roles listing Distributed Systems, 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 | 174 | 174 of 719 (24%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 28 | 28 of 70 (40%) |
| Platform engineer | 17 | 17 of 57 (30%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 14 | 14 of 79 (18%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 12 | 12 of 63 (19%) |
| Security engineer | 12 | 12 of 126 (10%) |
| AI engineer | 9 | 9 of 70 (13%) |
| DevOps engineer | 8 | 8 of 58 (14%) |
| QA engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| Research scientist | 8 | 8 of 39 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Akamai Technologies10 roles
- Databricks10 roles
- CoreWeave7 roles
- GitLab7 roles
- Crusoe6 roles
- Anthropic5 roles
- Cloudflare5 roles
- OpenAI5 roles
- SpaceXAI5 roles
- Zscaler5 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 315 Distributed Systems roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 150 of 315 (48%) |
| Go | 114 of 315 (36%) |
| AWS | 108 of 315 (34%) |
| Kubernetes | 97 of 315 (31%) |
| CI/CD | 95 of 315 (30%) |
| Observability | 78 of 315 (25%) |
| Docker | 73 of 315 (23%) |
| GCP | 69 of 315 (22%) |
| Azure | 63 of 315 (20%) |
| Java | 63 of 315 (20%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 35 of 315 (11%) |
| CI/CD | 32 of 315 (10%) |
| AWS | 28 of 315 (9%) |
| Open Source | 27 of 315 (9%) |
| Docker | 26 of 315 (8%) |
| Observability | 26 of 315 (8%) |
| AI | 25 of 315 (8%) |
| AI Agents | 22 of 315 (7%) |
| LLMs | 22 of 315 (7%) |
| Terraform | 22 of 315 (7%) |
Experience
Of the 186 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 184 of 186 (99%)
- 2+ years
- 182 of 186 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 168 of 186 (90%)
- 5+ years
- 131 of 186 (70%)
- 8+ years
- 54 of 186 (29%)
- 10+ years
- 23 of 186 (12%)
Degree
Of the 243 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 24 of 243 (10%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 55 of 243 (23%)
- Preferred
- 13 of 243 (5%)
- Not mentioned
- 151 of 243 (62%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 315 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $203k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 137 of 315 (43%)
- Remote roles
- 178 of 315 (57%)
How we count: 315 roles from 175 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