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Which roles ask for Operating Systems at tech companies · 27 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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27 roles counted that list Operating Systems, one per company, title and level; 147 postings in the window.

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In short

Operating Systems: listed in 27 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 25 and preferred in 2. The largest group is software engineer roles: 13 of 27.

Required
25 of 27
Of the roles that list Operating Systems
Preferred
2 of 27
Of the roles that list Operating Systems
Largest group
13 of 27
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Operating Systems

Roles listing Operating Systems, 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 engineer1313 of 719
Site reliability engineer44 of 70
Software architect33 of 32
Mobile engineer22 of 38
Platform engineer22 of 57
DevOps engineer11 of 58
Machine learning engineer11 of 79
Security engineer11 of 126

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 27 Operating Systems roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Linux
11 of 27
Networking
11 of 27
Go
10 of 27
Python
9 of 27
AWS
7 of 27
Distributed Systems
7 of 27
Kubernetes
7 of 27
Azure
6 of 27
C++
6 of 27
Cybersecurity
6 of 27
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
GPU Computing
4 of 27
Python
4 of 27
Observability
3 of 27
Rust
3 of 27
Scripting
3 of 27
Shell Scripting
3 of 27
AI
2 of 27
AI Agents
2 of 27
Azure
2 of 27
Board Bring-Up
2 of 27

Experience

Of the 14 roles that state years

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

1+ year
14 of 14
2+ years
14 of 14
3+ years
13 of 14
5+ years
8 of 14
8+ years
1 of 14
10+ years
1 of 14

Degree

Of the 19 roles we could read for it

Required
1 of 19
Required, or experience instead
7 of 19
Preferred
0 of 19
Not mentioned
11 of 19

Pay and remote work

Of the 27 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
11 of 27
Remote roles
16 of 27

How we count: 27 roles from 22 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