Site Reliability Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-08, Skillenai has indexed 1,992 job postings with the title “Site Reliability Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Kubernetes, with demand flat vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-08
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+How many Site Reliability Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 1,992 job postings with the title “Site Reliability Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-08, with demand flat vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Site Reliability Engineer jobs require?
Across Site Reliability Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-08, the skills mentioned most often are Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, AWS, observability.
+Which cities are hiring the most Site Reliability Engineer?
As of 2026-09-08, Site Reliability Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in Bengaluru, New York City, San Francisco, Hyderabad, Pune.
+Is Site Reliability Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 1,992 Site Reliability Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-08, with demand flat vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Site Reliability Engineer postings is Kubernetes, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Site Reliability Engineer postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Skills most often required for Site Reliability Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 1,096 | 55.0% |
| Python | 983 | 49.3% |
| Terraform | 849 | 42.6% |
| AWS | 722 | 36.2% |
| observability | 626 | 31.4% |
| CI/CD | 600 | 30.1% |
| Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) | 534 | 26.8% |
| Grafana | 507 | 25.5% |
| Prometheus | 507 | 25.5% |
| Linux | 504 | 25.3% |
| Go | 504 | 25.3% |
| Ansible | 406 | 20.4% |
| Docker | 401 | 20.1% |
| monitoring | 371 | 18.6% |
| incident response | 363 | 18.2% |
Top metros hiring Site Reliability Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 61 | 3.1% |
| New York City | 52 | 2.6% |
| San Francisco | 51 | 2.6% |
| Hyderabad | 38 | 1.9% |
| Pune | 32 | 1.6% |
| Dublin | 30 | 1.5% |
| London | 30 | 1.5% |
| Hawthorne | 23 | 1.2% |
| Toronto | 22 | 1.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-08, matching postings whose canonical role is “Site Reliability Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Site Reliability Engineer
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-08
- window_days
- 90
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