Which roles ask for Stream Processing at tech companies · 65 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
65 roles counted that list Stream Processing, one per company, title and level; 112 postings in the window.
In short
Stream Processing: listed in 65 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 33 and preferred in 32. The largest groups, tied, are data engineer and software engineer roles: 23 of 65 (35%) each.
- Required
- 33 of 65 (51%)
- Of the roles that list Stream Processing
- Preferred
- 32 of 65 (49%)
- Of the roles that list Stream Processing
- Largest group
- 23 of 65 (35%)
- Data engineer and Software engineer
Roles that ask for Stream Processing
Roles listing Stream Processing, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 23 | 23 of 99 (23%) |
| Software engineer | 23 | 23 of 719 (3%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 5 | 5 of 70 (7%) |
| Data architect | 2 | 2 of 11 |
| Data scientist | 2 | 2 of 112 (2%) |
| DevOps engineer | 2 | 2 of 58 (3%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 2 | 2 of 79 (3%) |
| Platform engineer | 2 | 2 of 57 (4%) |
| Software architect | 2 | 2 of 32 |
| Analytics engineer | 1 | 1 of 28 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Okta3 roles
- Be | Shaping the Future2 roles
- Caliberly2 roles
- CoreWeave2 roles
- Datadog2 roles
- GitLab2 roles
- SecurityScorecard2 roles
- Sinch2 roles
- Socure2 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 65 Stream Processing roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 39 of 65 (60%) |
| Data Modeling | 27 of 65 (42%) |
| SQL | 26 of 65 (40%) |
| AWS | 22 of 65 (34%) |
| CI/CD | 22 of 65 (34%) |
| Kafka | 22 of 65 (34%) |
| Data Warehousing | 19 of 65 (29%) |
| Observability | 14 of 65 (22%) |
| PostgreSQL | 14 of 65 (22%) |
| Spark | 14 of 65 (22%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Kafka | 12 of 65 (18%) |
| AI | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Docker | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Kubernetes | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Data Governance | 7 of 65 (11%) |
| Flink | 7 of 65 (11%) |
| Machine Learning | 7 of 65 (11%) |
| AWS | 6 of 65 (9%) |
| Data Infrastructure | 6 of 65 (9%) |
| Data Pipelines | 6 of 65 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 36 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 35 of 36
- 2+ years
- 34 of 36
- 3+ years
- 32 of 36
- 5+ years
- 26 of 36
- 8+ years
- 6 of 36
- 10+ years
- 4 of 36
Degree
Of the 45 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 3 of 45
- Required, or experience instead
- 12 of 45
- Preferred
- 2 of 45
- Not mentioned
- 28 of 45
Pay and remote work
Of the 65 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 30 of 65 (46%)
- Remote roles
- 45 of 65 (69%)
How we count: 65 roles from 54 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