Which roles ask for System Design at tech companies · 112 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
112 roles counted that list System Design, one per company, title and level; 336 postings in the window.
In short
System Design: listed in 112 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 91 and preferred in 21. The largest group is software engineer roles: 73 of 112 (65%).
- Required
- 91 of 112 (81%)
- Of the roles that list System Design
- Preferred
- 21 of 112 (19%)
- Of the roles that list System Design
- Largest group
- 73 of 112 (65%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for System Design
Roles listing System Design, 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 | 73 | 73 of 719 (10%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 7 | 7 of 79 (9%) |
| Security engineer | 7 | 7 of 126 (6%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 5 | 5 of 63 (8%) |
| Platform engineer | 5 | 5 of 57 (9%) |
| AI engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Data engineer | 2 | 2 of 99 (2%) |
| DevOps engineer | 2 | 2 of 58 (3%) |
| Software architect | 2 | 2 of 32 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Black Duck Software, Inc.3 roles
- CoreWeave3 roles
- Figma3 roles
- Replit3 roles
- Scale AI3 roles
- Zscaler3 roles
- Cloudflare2 roles
- GitLab2 roles
- Pika2 roles
- Spotify2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 112 System Design roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 46 of 112 (41%) |
| Distributed Systems | 40 of 112 (36%) |
| Go | 30 of 112 (27%) |
| AWS | 25 of 112 (22%) |
| AI | 23 of 112 (21%) |
| Kubernetes | 21 of 112 (19%) |
| CI/CD | 20 of 112 (18%) |
| Docker | 20 of 112 (18%) |
| Observability | 20 of 112 (18%) |
| TypeScript | 20 of 112 (18%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 16 of 112 (14%) |
| AWS | 14 of 112 (13%) |
| Kubernetes | 13 of 112 (12%) |
| Open Source | 13 of 112 (12%) |
| Azure | 12 of 112 (11%) |
| Docker | 12 of 112 (11%) |
| GCP | 10 of 112 (9%) |
| AI Agents | 9 of 112 (8%) |
| Observability | 9 of 112 (8%) |
| LLMs | 8 of 112 (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
- 58 of 63 (92%)
- 5+ years
- 45 of 63 (71%)
- 8+ years
- 20 of 63 (32%)
- 10+ years
- 7 of 63 (11%)
Degree
Of the 83 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 8 of 83 (10%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 11 of 83 (13%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 83 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 61 of 83 (73%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 112 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $200k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 51 of 112 (46%)
- Remote roles
- 70 of 112 (63%)
How we count: 112 roles from 90 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