Which roles ask for Tracing at tech companies · 50 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
50 roles counted that list Tracing, one per company, title and level; 228 postings in the window.
In short
Tracing: listed in 50 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 33 and preferred in 17. The largest group is software engineer roles: 23 of 50 (46%).
- Required
- 33 of 50 (66%)
- Of the roles that list Tracing
- Preferred
- 17 of 50 (34%)
- Of the roles that list Tracing
- Largest group
- 23 of 50 (46%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Tracing
Roles listing Tracing, 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 | 23 | 23 of 719 (3%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 10 | 10 of 70 (14%) |
| AI engineer | 5 | 5 of 70 (7%) |
| Platform engineer | 4 | 4 of 57 (7%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| QA engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 (1%) |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 1 | 1 of 79 (1%) |
| Research scientist | 1 | 1 of 39 |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 50 Tracing roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Observability | 30 of 50 (60%) |
| Python | 29 of 50 (58%) |
| Kubernetes | 25 of 50 (50%) |
| Logging | 25 of 50 (50%) |
| CI/CD | 24 of 50 (48%) |
| Go | 24 of 50 (48%) |
| Distributed Systems | 23 of 50 (46%) |
| Docker | 17 of 50 (34%) |
| Monitoring | 16 of 50 (32%) |
| AWS | 15 of 50 (30%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| LLMs | 9 of 50 (18%) |
| Logging | 8 of 50 (16%) |
| Observability | 8 of 50 (16%) |
| Open Source | 8 of 50 (16%) |
| Kubernetes | 7 of 50 (14%) |
| AI Agents | 6 of 50 (12%) |
| AWS | 6 of 50 (12%) |
| Argo CD | 6 of 50 (12%) |
| Datadog | 6 of 50 (12%) |
| GCP | 6 of 50 (12%) |
Experience
Of the 23 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 23 of 23
- 2+ years
- 22 of 23
- 3+ years
- 22 of 23
- 5+ years
- 20 of 23
- 8+ years
- 10 of 23
- 10+ years
- 2 of 23
Degree
Of the 39 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 1 of 39
- Required, or experience instead
- 4 of 39
- Preferred
- 0 of 39
- Not mentioned
- 34 of 39
Pay and remote work
Of the 50 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 21 of 50 (42%)
- Remote roles
- 28 of 50 (56%)
How we count: 50 roles from 41 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