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Which roles ask for OpenTelemetry at tech companies · 36 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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36 roles counted that list OpenTelemetry, one per company, title and level; 64 postings in the window.

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In short

OpenTelemetry: listed in 36 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 16 and preferred in 20. The largest group is site reliability engineer roles: 14 of 36.

Required
16 of 36
Of the roles that list OpenTelemetry
Preferred
20 of 36
Of the roles that list OpenTelemetry
Largest group
14 of 36
Site reliability engineer

Roles that ask for OpenTelemetry

Roles listing OpenTelemetry, 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
Site reliability engineer1414 of 70
Software engineer99 of 719
AI engineer33 of 70
Platform engineer33 of 57
Data engineer22 of 99
DevOps engineer22 of 58
QA engineer22 of 63
Software architect11 of 32

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 36 OpenTelemetry roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
24 of 36
Observability
20 of 36
CI/CD
17 of 36
Grafana
17 of 36
Kubernetes
16 of 36
AWS
15 of 36
Go
15 of 36
Prometheus
15 of 36
Infrastructure as Code
14 of 36
Distributed Systems
13 of 36
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Prometheus
10 of 36
Grafana
9 of 36
Datadog
8 of 36
Open Source
8 of 36
AWS
7 of 36
Chaos Engineering
7 of 36
Observability
7 of 36
Azure
6 of 36
Infrastructure as Code
6 of 36
Terraform
6 of 36

Experience

Of the 19 roles that state years

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

1+ year
19 of 19
2+ years
17 of 19
3+ years
17 of 19
5+ years
15 of 19
8+ years
7 of 19
10+ years
2 of 19

Degree

Of the 26 roles we could read for it

Required
3 of 26
Required, or experience instead
4 of 26
Preferred
2 of 26
Not mentioned
17 of 26

Pay and remote work

Of the 36 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
21 of 36
Remote roles
27 of 36

How we count: 36 roles from 31 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