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Which roles ask for HSM at tech companies · 15 roles · 90 days to Oct 11, 2026

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15 roles counted that list HSM, one per company, title and level; 95 postings in the window.

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In short

HSM: listed in 15 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 11, 2026. It was required in 6 and preferred in 9. The largest group is software engineer roles: 6 of 15. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required
6 of 15
Of the roles that list HSM
Preferred
9 of 15
Of the roles that list HSM
Largest group
6 of 15
Software engineer

Roles that ask for HSM

Roles listing HSM, 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 engineer66 of 1,718
Security engineer55 of 293
Software architect22 of 67
Data engineer11 of 257
QA engineer11 of 133

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 15 HSM roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Cryptography
8 of 15
Cybersecurity
7 of 15
Distributed Systems
6 of 15
PKI
6 of 15
Python
6 of 15
Threat Modeling
6 of 15
Go
5 of 15
C
4 of 15
CI/CD
4 of 15
Incident Response
4 of 15
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Open Source
3 of 15
Zero Trust
3 of 15
Code Signing
2 of 15
Infrastructure as Code
2 of 15
Kubernetes
2 of 15
Penetration Testing
2 of 15
Terraform
2 of 15
AI
1 of 15
AWS
1 of 15
AWS GovCloud
1 of 15

Experience

Of the 13 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
13 of 13
2+ years
13 of 13
3+ years
12 of 13
5+ years
11 of 13
8+ years
5 of 13
10+ years
3 of 13

Degree

Of the 15 roles we could read for it

Required
1 of 15
Required, or experience instead
4 of 15
Preferred
2 of 15
Not mentioned
8 of 15

Pay and remote work

Of the 15 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
8 of 15
Remote roles
5 of 15

How we count: 15 roles from 14 employers in the 90 days to Oct 11, 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