What Staff SRE Jobs Ask For
Across 167 open Staff SRE postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, automation, observability.
Updated October 28, 2026
168 open Staff SRE postings. The percentages below are measured over the 167 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 89% |
| automation | 81% |
| observability | 75% |
| ai | 74% |
| kubernetes | 68% |
| sre | 66% |
| python | 64% |
| networking | 63% |
| aws | 63% |
| terraform | 62% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 57% |
| gcp | 54% |
| ci-cd | 50% |
| distributed-systems | 47% |
| linux | 41% |
| grafana | 39% |
| azure | 35% |
| prometheus | 35% |
| devops | 24% |
| saas | 22% |
| gitops | 20% |
| ansible | 19% |
| docker | 19% |
| helm | 19% |
| machine-learning | 19% |
| cloud-native | 17% |
| containerization | 16% |
| eks | 16% |
| java | 16% |
| kafka | 16% |
| loki | 16% |
| opentelemetry | 16% |
| agentic-ai | 15% |
| argocd | 15% |
| bash | 15% |
| datadog | 15% |
| typescript | 15% |
| dns | 13% |
| postgresql | 13% |
| gitlab | 12% |
"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 168 open Staff SRE jobs →
Across all SRE levels
Most SRE postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- cloud 2,172
- automation 1,911
- sre 1,839
- python 1,828
- observability 1,778
- kubernetes 1,699
- ci-cd 1,496
- terraform 1,493
- aws 1,425
- ai 1,402
- infrastructure-as-code 1,323
- networking 1,220