Which roles ask for Performance Optimization at tech companies · 126 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
126 roles counted that list Performance Optimization, one per company, title and level; 389 postings in the window.
In short
Performance Optimization: listed in 126 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 81 and preferred in 45. The largest group is software engineer roles: 72 of 126 (57%).
- Required
- 81 of 126 (64%)
- Of the roles that list Performance Optimization
- Preferred
- 45 of 126 (36%)
- Of the roles that list Performance Optimization
- Largest group
- 72 of 126 (57%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Performance Optimization
Roles listing Performance Optimization, 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 | 72 | 72 of 719 (10%) |
| Data engineer | 20 | 20 of 99 (20%) |
| Mobile engineer | 8 | 8 of 38 |
| Platform engineer | 5 | 5 of 57 (9%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 4 | 4 of 79 (5%) |
| Research scientist | 4 | 4 of 39 |
| Site reliability engineer | 4 | 4 of 70 (6%) |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Analytics engineer | 2 | 2 of 28 |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
Companies that ask for it most
- CoreWeave4 roles
- Anthropic3 roles
- Be | Shaping the Future2 roles
- Coinbase2 roles
- Cribl2 roles
- Exceptionly2 roles
- Illumio2 roles
- Okta2 roles
- Photon2 roles
- Stripe2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 126 Performance Optimization roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 47 of 126 (37%) |
| SQL | 36 of 126 (29%) |
| CI/CD | 33 of 126 (26%) |
| REST | 33 of 126 (26%) |
| Data Modeling | 30 of 126 (24%) |
| Git | 29 of 126 (23%) |
| AWS | 28 of 126 (22%) |
| Debugging | 27 of 126 (21%) |
| Distributed Systems | 25 of 126 (20%) |
| Kubernetes | 24 of 126 (19%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 20 of 126 (16%) |
| AWS | 15 of 126 (12%) |
| Docker | 14 of 126 (11%) |
| Kubernetes | 14 of 126 (11%) |
| Monitoring | 14 of 126 (11%) |
| Cybersecurity | 12 of 126 (10%) |
| Azure | 11 of 126 (9%) |
| GCP | 11 of 126 (9%) |
| Observability | 10 of 126 (8%) |
| Data Pipelines | 9 of 126 (7%) |
Experience
Of the 63 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 63 of 63 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 63 of 63 (100%)
- 3+ years
- 59 of 63 (94%)
- 5+ years
- 42 of 63 (67%)
- 8+ years
- 15 of 63 (24%)
- 10+ years
- 9 of 63 (14%)
Degree
Of the 81 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 10 of 81 (12%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 15 of 81 (19%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 81 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 53 of 81 (65%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 126 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 48 of 126 (38%)
- Remote roles
- 96 of 126 (76%)
How we count: 126 roles from 107 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