Which roles ask for Observability at tech companies · 252 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
252 roles counted that list Observability, one per company, title and level; 875 postings in the window.
In short
Observability: listed in 252 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 171 and preferred in 81. The largest group is software engineer roles: 108 of 252 (43%).
- Required
- 171 of 252 (68%)
- Of the roles that list Observability
- Preferred
- 81 of 252 (32%)
- Of the roles that list Observability
- Largest group
- 108 of 252 (43%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Observability
Roles listing Observability, 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 | 108 | 108 of 719 (15%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 43 | 43 of 70 (61%) |
| Platform engineer | 20 | 20 of 57 (35%) |
| AI engineer | 18 | 18 of 70 (26%) |
| DevOps engineer | 16 | 16 of 58 (28%) |
| Data engineer | 11 | 11 of 99 (11%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 8 | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| QA engineer | 7 | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 6 | 6 of 79 (8%) |
| Data scientist | 4 | 4 of 112 (4%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- GitLab10 roles
- Akamai Technologies9 roles
- CoreWeave8 roles
- Okta7 roles
- OpenAI7 roles
- Zscaler7 roles
- Crusoe5 roles
- Cloudflare4 roles
- Cribl4 roles
- Palantir4 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 252 Observability roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 133 of 252 (53%) |
| CI/CD | 102 of 252 (40%) |
| Kubernetes | 98 of 252 (39%) |
| Go | 94 of 252 (37%) |
| Distributed Systems | 91 of 252 (36%) |
| AWS | 87 of 252 (35%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 71 of 252 (28%) |
| Docker | 63 of 252 (25%) |
| Incident Response | 61 of 252 (24%) |
| Monitoring | 61 of 252 (24%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure as Code | 31 of 252 (12%) |
| CI/CD | 30 of 252 (12%) |
| Terraform | 28 of 252 (11%) |
| Prometheus | 27 of 252 (11%) |
| Monitoring | 26 of 252 (10%) |
| AWS | 25 of 252 (10%) |
| Kubernetes | 25 of 252 (10%) |
| Open Source | 25 of 252 (10%) |
| AI | 24 of 252 (10%) |
| Grafana | 24 of 252 (10%) |
Experience
Of the 135 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 135 of 135 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 133 of 135 (99%)
- 3+ years
- 128 of 135 (95%)
- 5+ years
- 94 of 135 (70%)
- 8+ years
- 35 of 135 (26%)
- 10+ years
- 14 of 135 (10%)
Degree
Of the 193 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 16 of 193 (8%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 29 of 193 (15%)
- Preferred
- 10 of 193 (5%)
- Not mentioned
- 138 of 193 (72%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 252 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $185.3k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 112 of 252 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 159 of 252 (63%)
How we count: 252 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