What Staff SRE Jobs Ask For
Across 54 open Staff SRE postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are cloud, ai, automation.
Updated October 27, 2026
54 open Staff SRE postings. The percentages below are measured over the 54 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| cloud | 93% |
| ai | 85% |
| automation | 81% |
| observability | 80% |
| networking | 70% |
| kubernetes | 65% |
| python | 65% |
| aws | 63% |
| infrastructure-as-code | 59% |
| terraform | 56% |
| sre | 46% |
| ci-cd | 44% |
| gcp | 44% |
| distributed-systems | 41% |
| linux | 39% |
| azure | 37% |
| prometheus | 30% |
| cloud-native | 26% |
| grafana | 26% |
| rust | 24% |
| machine-learning | 22% |
| ansible | 20% |
| javascript | 20% |
| agile | 19% |
| cloud-security | 19% |
| cpp | 19% |
| anomaly-detection | 17% |
| docker | 17% |
| typescript | 17% |
| devops | 15% |
| dns | 15% |
| datadog | 13% |
| gitlab | 13% |
| mongodb | 13% |
| root-cause-analysis | 13% |
| saas | 13% |
| sase | 13% |
| tls | 13% |
| zero-trust | 13% |
| zscaler | 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 54 open Staff SRE jobs →
Across all SRE levels
Most SRE postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- automation 325
- kubernetes 324
- cloud 315
- python 306
- observability 303
- sre 275
- aws 250
- terraform 247
- ai 243
- ci-cd 239
- infrastructure-as-code 224
- networking 206