What employers ask for in Site Reliability Engineer jobs

We read 17 current Site Reliability Engineer postings from 17 companies' own career sites on November 4, 2026 and counted, posting by posting, what they ask candidates for.

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17postings read

17companies

3 yrsmedian minimum experience (12 postings state one)

12%say remote (35% hybrid)

Tools and technologies

Share of postings that name each one.

Python71% · 12 of 17
Terraform65% · 11 of 17
AWS59% · 10 of 17
Datadog59% · 10 of 17
Kubernetes53% · 9 of 17
GitHub Actions29% · 5 of 17
Go29% · 5 of 17
Bash24% · 4 of 17
Linux24% · 4 of 17
Ansible18% · 3 of 17
ArgoCD18% · 3 of 17
GCP18% · 3 of 17
Grafana18% · 3 of 17
Helm18% · 3 of 17
Java18% · 3 of 17

Skills and methods

CI/CD47% · 8 of 17
Observability47% · 8 of 17
Incident response41% · 7 of 17
Infrastructure as Code29% · 5 of 17
Capacity planning24% · 4 of 17
Distributed systems24% · 4 of 17
GitOps18% · 3 of 17
Site reliability engineering18% · 3 of 17
Troubleshooting18% · 3 of 17
Chaos Engineering12% · 2 of 17

Soft skills

Communication29% · 5 of 17
Mentoring12% · 2 of 17
Stakeholder management12% · 2 of 17

Experience

12 of 17 postings state a minimum number of years; the median is 3 years.

0–2 years17% · 2
3–4 years42% · 5
5–7 years33% · 4
8+ years8% · 1

Where and with what degree

Remote12%
Hybrid35%
On-site6%
Not stated47%
Degree required12%
Degree preferred18%

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Postings we read

Read on November 4, 2026; some may have closed since.

Company	Role
Architus	Senior SRE Engineer
AvePoint	Test Engineer and SRE
Cambridge Mobile Telematics	Site Reliability Engineer – Budapest, HU
Clear Street	Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Ensono	Site Reliability Engineer
Forward	Site Reliability Engineer
Hinge Health	Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Layerzerolabs	Site Reliability Engineer
Motive	Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Okta	Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Optiverus	Production Operations Engineer (Trading Systems / SRE / Application Support)
Rocket Dot N Et	Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Schonfeld	Site Reliability Engineer
Tennr	Site Reliability Engineer
Tubi - Canada	Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Virtru	Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Xometry	Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

How we counted

We searched company career sites hosted on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and SmartRecruiters for current postings titled “site reliability engineer”, “sre”, at most two per company, and read each one. An AI model listed what each posting asks for; we kept an item only when the posting contains it word for word, and list it here when at least two postings ask for it. Seniority levels are mixed. Updated November 4, 2026.