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Which roles ask for SIEM at tech companies · 33 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

Updated Oct 7, 2026

33 roles counted that list SIEM, one per company, title and level; 78 postings in the window.

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In short

SIEM: listed in 33 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 24 and preferred in 9. The largest group is security engineer roles: 26 of 33. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required: 24 of 33; Of the roles that list SIEM
Preferred: 9 of 33; Of the roles that list SIEM
Largest group: 26 of 33; Security engineer

Roles that ask for SIEM

Roles listing SIEM, 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
Security engineer	26	26 of 126
DevOps engineer	2	2 of 58
Forward deployed engineer	2	2 of 63
Software architect	2	2 of 32
Software engineer	1	1 of 719

Companies that ask for it most

GitLab2 roles
Okta2 roles
Anthropic1 role
Conduent1 role
Lumen Technologies1 role
MastarRec1 role
Notion1 role
Spotify1 role
Synthesia1 role
Zscaler1 role

Asked alongside

Out of the 33 SIEM roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
Skill	Roles asking
Python	24 of 33
AWS	17 of 33
Scripting	15 of 33
Cloud Security	14 of 33
Cybersecurity	14 of 33
GCP	13 of 33
Incident Response	13 of 33
Azure	12 of 33
Infrastructure as Code	11 of 33
EDR	9 of 33

Preferred
Skill	Roles asking
CI/CD	7 of 33
DevSecOps	6 of 33
AI	5 of 33
AWS	5 of 33
Detection Engineering	5 of 33
ISO 27001	5 of 33
SOC 2	5 of 33
Azure	4 of 33
GCP	4 of 33
GDPR	4 of 33

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: 19 of 19
3+ years: 18 of 19
5+ years: 13 of 19
8+ years: 2 of 19
10+ years: 0 of 19

Degree

Of the 29 roles we could read for it

Required: 1 of 29
Required, or experience instead: 5 of 29
Preferred: 2 of 29
Not mentioned: 21 of 29

Pay and remote work

Of the 33 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay: 13 of 33
Remote roles: 20 of 33

How we count: 33 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