Which roles ask for Go at tech companies · 315 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
315 roles counted that list Go, one per company, title and level; 1,002 postings in the window.
In short
Go: listed in 315 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 279 and preferred in 36. The largest group is software engineer roles: 154 of 315 (49%).
- Required
- 279 of 315 (89%)
- Of the roles that list Go
- Preferred
- 36 of 315 (11%)
- Of the roles that list Go
- Largest group
- 154 of 315 (49%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Go
Roles listing Go, 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 | 154 | 154 of 719 (21%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 43 | 43 of 70 (61%) |
| Security engineer | 40 | 40 of 126 (32%) |
| Platform engineer | 27 | 27 of 57 (47%) |
| DevOps engineer | 12 | 12 of 58 (21%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 9 | 9 of 79 (11%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| QA engineer | 6 | 6 of 63 (10%) |
| AI engineer | 5 | 5 of 70 (7%) |
| Data engineer | 4 | 4 of 99 (4%) |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 315 Go roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 212 of 315 (67%) |
| Kubernetes | 127 of 315 (40%) |
| Distributed Systems | 112 of 315 (36%) |
| AWS | 98 of 315 (31%) |
| CI/CD | 97 of 315 (31%) |
| Observability | 76 of 315 (24%) |
| Docker | 74 of 315 (23%) |
| GCP | 72 of 315 (23%) |
| Java | 71 of 315 (23%) |
| Terraform | 71 of 315 (23%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Open Source | 40 of 315 (13%) |
| Kubernetes | 37 of 315 (12%) |
| AI | 34 of 315 (11%) |
| CI/CD | 32 of 315 (10%) |
| Docker | 29 of 315 (9%) |
| AWS | 28 of 315 (9%) |
| Observability | 27 of 315 (9%) |
| Terraform | 27 of 315 (9%) |
| Incident Response | 25 of 315 (8%) |
| AI Agents | 24 of 315 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 193 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 193 of 193 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 189 of 193 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 170 of 193 (88%)
- 5+ years
- 131 of 193 (68%)
- 8+ years
- 41 of 193 (21%)
- 10+ years
- 16 of 193 (8%)
Degree
Of the 260 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 26 of 260 (10%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 46 of 260 (18%)
- Preferred
- 10 of 260 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 178 of 260 (68%)
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
- $186.1k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 138 of 315 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 168 of 315 (53%)
How we count: 315 roles from 148 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