SLIs jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, SLIs appears in 619 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Site Reliability Engineer has the most postings mentioning SLIs, with demand down 51% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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Frequently asked questions about SLIs
+Is SLIs in demand in 2026?
Yes. SLIs appears in 619 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 51% vs the prior 4 weeks. Site Reliability Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning SLIs (42.6% of all postings mentioning SLIs).
+What jobs require SLIs?
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 SLIs are Observability Engineer (16.7% of that role’s postings mention SLIs), Site Reliability Engineering Manager (13.7% of that role’s postings mention SLIs), Site Reliability Engineer (12.6% of that role’s postings mention SLIs).
+What skills are commonly paired with SLIs?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), SLIs most often appears alongside SLOs, observability, Kubernetes, error budgets, Terraform.
+Where is SLIs most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring SLIs are Bengaluru, San Francisco, Berlin, New York City, London, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring SLIs — last 90 days
Roles most likely to require SLIs
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Observability Engineer | 5 | 16.7% |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager | 7 | 13.7% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 264 | 12.6% |
| Production Engineer | 6 | 11.8% |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 13 | 10.3% |
| Platform Engineering Director | 2 | 10.0% |
| VP of Engineering | 3 | 8.6% |
| SRE Engineer | 2 | 8.0% |
| Operations Engineer | 6 | 7.6% |
| Cloud Platform Engineer | 7 | 4.9% |
Roles with the most SLIs postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | 264 | 42.6% |
| Software Engineer | 77 | 12.4% |
| DevOps Engineer | 30 | 4.8% |
| Engineering Manager | 24 | 3.9% |
| Platform Engineer | 19 | 3.1% |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 13 | 2.1% |
| Backend Engineer | 9 | 1.5% |
| Data Engineer | 9 | 1.5% |
| Cloud Platform Engineer | 7 | 1.1% |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager | 7 | 1.1% |
Top metros hiring for SLIs
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 31 | 5.0% |
| San Francisco | 21 | 3.4% |
| Berlin | 18 | 2.9% |
| New York City | 14 | 2.3% |
| London | 12 | 1.9% |
| Sunnyvale | 11 | 1.8% |
| Hyderabad | 10 | 1.6% |
| Paris | 10 | 1.6% |
| Pune | 10 | 1.6% |
Skills commonly paired with SLIs
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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 SLIs by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s SLIs postings by all SLIs 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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