Production Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 51 job postings with the title “Production Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is automation, with demand down 24% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Production Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 51 job postings with the title “Production Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 24% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Production Engineer jobs require?
Across Production Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are automation, Kubernetes, observability, Python, incident response.
+Which cities are hiring the most Production Engineer?
As of 2026-05-17, Production Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, San Francisco, Warsaw, Arlington, Singapore.
+Is Production Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 51 Production Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 24% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Production Engineer postings is automation, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Production Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Production Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| automation | 31 | 11.9% |
| Kubernetes | 25 | 9.6% |
| observability | 25 | 9.6% |
| Python | 23 | 8.8% |
| incident response | 19 | 7.3% |
| Distributed systems | 17 | 6.5% |
| CI/CD | 16 | 6.2% |
| Go | 16 | 6.2% |
| Terraform | 16 | 6.2% |
| AWS | 15 | 5.8% |
| Grafana | 14 | 5.4% |
| Linux | 11 | 4.2% |
| monitoring | 11 | 4.2% |
| Prometheus | 11 | 4.2% |
| alerting | 10 | 3.8% |
Top metros hiring Production Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 8 | 25.8% |
| San Francisco | 5 | 16.1% |
| Warsaw | 4 | 12.9% |
| Arlington | 3 | 9.7% |
| Singapore | 3 | 9.7% |
| Virginia | 3 | 9.7% |
| Bengaluru | 2 | 6.5% |
| Pune | 2 | 6.5% |
| Aix-en-Provence | 1 | 3.2% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Production Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Production Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-05-17
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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