What Staff SRE Jobs Ask For
Across 267 open Staff SRE postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, automation, observability.
Updated November 3, 2026
268 open Staff SRE postings. The percentages below are measured over the 267 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 89% |
| automation | 78% |
| observability | 74% |
| sre | 73% |
| ai | 72% |
| kubernetes | 71% |
| aws | 67% |
| python | 64% |
| terraform | 63% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 60% |
| networking | 58% |
| ci-cd | 55% |
| gcp | 52% |
| distributed-systems | 46% |
| linux | 40% |
| grafana | 35% |
| azure | 33% |
| prometheus | 30% |
| devops | 29% |
| cloud-native | 24% |
| ansible | 22% |
| gitops | 22% |
| docker | 22% |
| java | 20% |
| machine-learning | 20% |
| argocd | 20% |
| saas | 19% |
| eks | 19% |
| helm | 18% |
| bash | 18% |
| dns | 18% |
| opentelemetry | 18% |
| kafka | 17% |
| containerization | 17% |
| datadog | 16% |
| root-cause-analysis | 15% |
| llm | 13% |
| postgresql | 13% |
| agentic-ai | 13% |
| api | 13% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 268 open Staff SRE jobs →
Across all SRE levels
Most SRE postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- cloud 4,441
- sre 4,036
- automation 3,948
- python 3,822
- observability 3,720
- kubernetes 3,612
- ci-cd 3,319
- terraform 3,008
- aws 2,999
- infrastructure-as-code 2,733
- ai 2,628
- devops 2,461