Which roles ask for Monitoring at tech companies · 198 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
198 roles counted that list Monitoring, one per company, title and level; 463 postings in the window.
In short
Monitoring: listed in 198 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 132 and preferred in 66. The largest group is software engineer roles: 70 of 198 (35%).
- Required
- 132 of 198 (67%)
- Of the roles that list Monitoring
- Preferred
- 66 of 198 (33%)
- Of the roles that list Monitoring
- Largest group
- 70 of 198 (35%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Monitoring
Roles listing Monitoring, 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 | 70 | 70 of 719 (10%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 29 | 29 of 70 (41%) |
| DevOps engineer | 21 | 21 of 58 (36%) |
| Platform engineer | 18 | 18 of 57 (32%) |
| Data engineer | 17 | 17 of 99 (17%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 8 | 8 of 79 (10%) |
| Security engineer | 7 | 7 of 126 (6%) |
| AI engineer | 6 | 6 of 70 (9%) |
| QA engineer | 5 | 5 of 63 (8%) |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 198 Monitoring roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 106 of 198 (54%) |
| AWS | 86 of 198 (43%) |
| CI/CD | 84 of 198 (42%) |
| Kubernetes | 64 of 198 (32%) |
| Observability | 63 of 198 (32%) |
| Terraform | 59 of 198 (30%) |
| Docker | 58 of 198 (29%) |
| Go | 54 of 198 (27%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 50 of 198 (25%) |
| Distributed Systems | 49 of 198 (25%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 25 of 198 (13%) |
| Observability | 24 of 198 (12%) |
| Alerting | 22 of 198 (11%) |
| AI | 19 of 198 (10%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 19 of 198 (10%) |
| Kubernetes | 18 of 198 (9%) |
| Incident Response | 16 of 198 (8%) |
| Prometheus | 16 of 198 (8%) |
| Logging | 15 of 198 (8%) |
| Cybersecurity | 14 of 198 (7%) |
Experience
Of the 104 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 104 of 104 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 103 of 104 (99%)
- 3+ years
- 97 of 104 (93%)
- 5+ years
- 66 of 104 (63%)
- 8+ years
- 19 of 104 (18%)
- 10+ years
- 7 of 104 (7%)
Degree
Of the 141 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 10 of 141 (7%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 31 of 141 (22%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 141 (1%)
- Not mentioned
- 98 of 141 (70%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 198 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $165k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 65 of 198 (33%)
- Remote roles
- 133 of 198 (67%)
How we count: 198 roles from 144 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