Which roles ask for Instrumentation at tech companies · 17 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
17 roles counted that list Instrumentation, one per company, title and level; 38 postings in the window.
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In short
Instrumentation: listed in 17 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 13 and preferred in 4. The largest group is software engineer roles: 8 of 17. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.
- Required
- 13 of 17
- Of the roles that list Instrumentation
- Preferred
- 4 of 17
- Of the roles that list Instrumentation
- Largest group
- 8 of 17
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Instrumentation
Roles listing Instrumentation, 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 | 8 | 8 of 719 |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 |
| Site reliability engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 |
| Mobile engineer | 1 | 1 of 38 |
| Platform engineer | 1 | 1 of 57 |
| Research scientist | 1 | 1 of 39 |
| Security engineer | 1 | 1 of 126 |
Companies that ask for it most
- NVIDIA2 roles
- Affirm1 role
- Cognition1 role
- Descript1 role
- IAM Cloud1 role
- Midjourney1 role
- NetDocuments1 role
- Replit1 role
- Scale AI1 role
- Spotify1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 17 Instrumentation roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Observability | 8 of 17 |
| Python | 8 of 17 |
| Distributed Systems | 6 of 17 |
| Go | 5 of 17 |
| Kubernetes | 5 of 17 |
| AI | 4 of 17 |
| AWS | 4 of 17 |
| Infrastructure as Code | 4 of 17 |
| Logging | 4 of 17 |
| Cybersecurity | 3 of 17 |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 5 of 17 |
| AI Agents | 4 of 17 |
| Terraform | 3 of 17 |
| Capacity Planning | 2 of 17 |
| Cybersecurity | 2 of 17 |
| Data Infrastructure | 2 of 17 |
| Data Privacy | 2 of 17 |
| GPU Computing | 2 of 17 |
| Identity and Access Management | 2 of 17 |
| Incident Response | 2 of 17 |
Experience
Of the 9 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 9 of 9
- 2+ years
- 9 of 9
- 3+ years
- 9 of 9
- 5+ years
- 7 of 9
- 8+ years
- 2 of 9
- 10+ years
- 0 of 9
Degree
Of the 16 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 0 of 16
- Required, or experience instead
- 4 of 16
- Preferred
- 1 of 16
- Not mentioned
- 11 of 16
Pay and remote work
Of the 17 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 10 of 17
- Remote roles
- 11 of 17
How we count: 17 roles from 16 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