Which roles ask for Root Cause Analysis at tech companies · 78 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
78 roles counted that list Root Cause Analysis, one per company, title and level; 221 postings in the window.
In short
Root Cause Analysis: listed in 78 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 58 and preferred in 20. The largest group is software engineer roles: 26 of 78 (33%).
- Required
- 58 of 78 (74%)
- Of the roles that list Root Cause Analysis
- Preferred
- 20 of 78 (26%)
- Of the roles that list Root Cause Analysis
- Largest group
- 26 of 78 (33%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Root Cause Analysis
Roles listing Root Cause Analysis, 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 | 26 | 26 of 719 (4%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 11 | 11 of 70 (16%) |
| Security engineer | 10 | 10 of 126 (8%) |
| Platform engineer | 9 | 9 of 57 (16%) |
| QA engineer | 9 | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| DevOps engineer | 5 | 5 of 58 (9%) |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Data analyst | 2 | 2 of 47 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 78 Root Cause Analysis roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 35 of 78 (45%) |
| CI/CD | 33 of 78 (42%) |
| AWS | 24 of 78 (31%) |
| Debugging | 23 of 78 (29%) |
| Kubernetes | 23 of 78 (29%) |
| Go | 22 of 78 (28%) |
| Terraform | 22 of 78 (28%) |
| Observability | 20 of 78 (26%) |
| Incident Response | 19 of 78 (24%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 19 of 78 (24%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Incident Response | 10 of 78 (13%) |
| Azure | 8 of 78 (10%) |
| Cybersecurity | 8 of 78 (10%) |
| Monitoring | 8 of 78 (10%) |
| Alerting | 7 of 78 (9%) |
| CI/CD | 7 of 78 (9%) |
| AWS | 6 of 78 (8%) |
| Logging | 6 of 78 (8%) |
| Multi-Cloud | 6 of 78 (8%) |
| Observability | 6 of 78 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 35 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 35 of 35
- 2+ years
- 34 of 35
- 3+ years
- 32 of 35
- 5+ years
- 26 of 35
- 8+ years
- 11 of 35
- 10+ years
- 5 of 35
Degree
Of the 56 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 7 of 56 (13%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 15 of 56 (27%)
- Preferred
- 0 of 56 (0%)
- Not mentioned
- 34 of 56 (61%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 78 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 33 of 78 (42%)
- Remote roles
- 44 of 78 (56%)
How we count: 78 roles from 57 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