reliability jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, reliability appears in 1,436 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning reliability, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is reliability in demand in 2026?
Yes. reliability appears in 1,436 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning reliability (26.9% of all postings mentioning reliability).
+What jobs require reliability?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning reliability are Deployment Strategist (39.0% of that role’s postings mention reliability), Hardware Engineering Manager (19.0% of that role’s postings mention reliability), Hardware Product Manager (15.0% of that role’s postings mention reliability).
+What skills are commonly paired with reliability?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), reliability most often appears alongside scalability, observability, security, Python, Distributed systems.
+Where is reliability most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring reliability are San Francisco, New York City, London, Bengaluru, Tel Aviv, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring reliability — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require reliability
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Strategist | 23 | 39.0% |
| Hardware Engineering Manager | 4 | 19.0% |
| Hardware Product Manager | 3 | 15.0% |
| VP of Engineering | 5 | 14.3% |
| Frontier Agents Engineer | 2 | 9.1% |
| AI Platform Architect | 2 | 8.7% |
| Mission Software Engineer | 5 | 8.6% |
| Head of Engineering | 10 | 7.2% |
| Engineering Director | 13 | 6.3% |
| Product Architect | 2 | 6.2% |
Roles with the most reliability postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 387 | 26.9% |
| Engineering Manager | 125 | 8.7% |
| Product Manager | 91 | 6.3% |
| Backend Engineer | 34 | 2.4% |
| Solutions Architect | 29 | 2.0% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 27 | 1.9% |
| Backend Software Engineer | 24 | 1.7% |
| Deployment Strategist | 23 | 1.6% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 23 | 1.6% |
| Technical Product Manager | 23 | 1.6% |
Top metros hiring for reliability
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 81 | 5.6% |
| New York City | 77 | 5.4% |
| London | 60 | 4.2% |
| Bengaluru | 39 | 2.7% |
| Tel Aviv | 32 | 2.2% |
| Seattle | 31 | 2.2% |
| El Segundo | 28 | 1.9% |
| Berlin | 26 | 1.8% |
| Boston | 26 | 1.8% |
Skills commonly paired with reliability
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. 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 reliability by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s reliability postings by all reliability 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).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-09-28
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