postmortems jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-10-30, postmortems appears in 253 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning postmortems, with demand share down 6.8% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-30
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Frequently asked questions about postmortems
+Is postmortems in demand in 2026?
Yes. postmortems appears in 253 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-10-30. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning postmortems (27.3% of all postings mentioning postmortems).
+What jobs require postmortems?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning postmortems are Site Reliability Engineering Manager (8.6% of that role’s postings mention postmortems), Technical Lead Manager (2.9% of that role’s postings mention postmortems), Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (2.8% of that role’s postings mention postmortems).
+What skills are commonly paired with postmortems?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-10-30), postmortems most often appears alongside incident response, observability, Kubernetes, SLOs, CI/CD.
+Where is postmortems most in demand?
As of 2026-10-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring postmortems are San Francisco, London, New York City, Berlin, Bengaluru, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new postmortems content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning postmortems alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new postmortems content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after postmortems?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring postmortems — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around postmortems
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Not enough linked career history to draw this chart yet.
Roles most likely to require postmortems
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager | 5 | 8.6% |
| Technical Lead Manager | 1 | 2.9% |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 3 | 2.8% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 56 | 2.4% |
| Technical Writer | 2 | 2.0% |
| Customer Engineer | 2 | 1.5% |
| Data Engineering Manager | 3 | 1.3% |
| Engineering Manager | 34 | 0.9% |
| Product Security Engineer | 2 | 0.6% |
| Head of Engineering | 1 | 0.6% |
Roles with the most postmortems postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 69 | 27.3% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 56 | 22.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 34 | 13.4% |
| DevOps Engineer | 5 | 2.0% |
| Platform Engineer | 5 | 2.0% |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager | 5 | 2.0% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 4 | 1.6% |
| Product Manager | 4 | 1.6% |
| Security Engineer | 4 | 1.6% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 4 | 1.6% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring postmortems
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Cisco | 18 |
| 10 | |
| Anthropic | 10 |
| Staffnixcom | 6 |
| Doctolib | 4 |
| Alpaca | 4 |
| NVIDIA | 4 |
| Chainguard | 4 |
| Gusto | 3 |
| LiveKit | 3 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for postmortems
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 19 | 7.5% |
| London | 12 | 4.7% |
| New York City | 11 | 4.3% |
| Berlin | 6 | 2.4% |
| Bengaluru | 5 | 2.0% |
| Warsaw | 5 | 2.0% |
| Amsterdam | 4 | 1.6% |
| Austin | 4 | 1.6% |
| Chicago | 4 | 1.6% |
Skills commonly paired with postmortems
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How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning postmortems by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s postmortems postings by all postmortems postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.1% to 0.1%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,482 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 and 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-26 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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