Which roles ask for Prometheus at tech companies · 85 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
85 roles counted that list Prometheus, one per company, title and level; 173 postings in the window.
In short
Prometheus: listed in 85 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 52 and preferred in 33. The largest group is site reliability engineer roles: 30 of 85 (35%).
- Required
- 52 of 85 (61%)
- Of the roles that list Prometheus
- Preferred
- 33 of 85 (39%)
- Of the roles that list Prometheus
- Largest group
- 30 of 85 (35%)
- Site reliability engineer
Roles that ask for Prometheus
Roles listing Prometheus, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Site reliability engineer | 30 | 30 of 70 (43%) |
| Software engineer | 20 | 20 of 719 (3%) |
| Platform engineer | 15 | 15 of 57 (26%) |
| DevOps engineer | 9 | 9 of 58 (16%) |
| QA engineer | 5 | 5 of 63 (8%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 3 | 3 of 79 (4%) |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 (1%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
| Security engineer | 1 | 1 of 126 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Akamai Technologies4 roles
- CoreWeave3 roles
- GitLab3 roles
- Lambda3 roles
- Netskope3 roles
- Palantir3 roles
- Replit3 roles
- Together AI3 roles
- Zscaler3 roles
- Sezzle2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 85 Prometheus roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 51 of 85 (60%) |
| Grafana | 50 of 85 (59%) |
| Kubernetes | 47 of 85 (55%) |
| Observability | 44 of 85 (52%) |
| Go | 42 of 85 (49%) |
| AWS | 39 of 85 (46%) |
| Terraform | 38 of 85 (45%) |
| CI/CD | 36 of 85 (42%) |
| Linux | 32 of 85 (38%) |
| Monitoring | 30 of 85 (35%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Grafana | 26 of 85 (31%) |
| Observability | 20 of 85 (24%) |
| Kubernetes | 13 of 85 (15%) |
| Terraform | 13 of 85 (15%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 12 of 85 (14%) |
| Open Source | 12 of 85 (14%) |
| Datadog | 11 of 85 (13%) |
| Python | 11 of 85 (13%) |
| GCP | 10 of 85 (12%) |
| OpenTelemetry | 10 of 85 (12%) |
Experience
Of the 49 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 49 of 49
- 2+ years
- 48 of 49
- 3+ years
- 46 of 49
- 5+ years
- 31 of 49
- 8+ years
- 10 of 49
- 10+ years
- 3 of 49
Degree
Of the 63 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 8 of 63 (13%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 13 of 63 (21%)
- Preferred
- 4 of 63 (6%)
- Not mentioned
- 38 of 63 (60%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 85 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 39 of 85 (46%)
- Remote roles
- 51 of 85 (60%)
How we count: 85 roles from 61 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