Top skills for Platform Engineer jobs
Based on 471 active Platform Engineer postings · updated Oct 8, 2026.
Skills employers ask for
The share of Platform Engineer postings that list each skill. Text that appears in almost every posting — equal-opportunity and benefits sections — is left out.
- Design75%
- CI/CD67%
- Kubernetes63%
- Automation61%
- DevOps40%
- Scripting31%
- Cloud Infrastructure28%
- Linux28%
- Grafana25%
- Computer Science24%
- Software Development20%
- GitOps19%
- GitHub Actions18%
- GitLab18%
- Innovation17%
- TypeScript16%
- Cloud Platform14%
- Datadog13%
- Debugging12%
- Git12%
- GitHub11%
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)10%
- Analytics8%
- Open-Source8%
- PostgreSQL8%
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