Top skills for Site Reliability Engineer jobs
Based on 607 active Site Reliability Engineer postings · updated Oct 8, 2026.
Skills employers ask for
The share of Site Reliability Engineer postings that list each skill. Text that appears in almost every posting — equal-opportunity and benefits sections — is left out.
- Automation75%
- Design69%
- Kubernetes68%
- CI/CD56%
- DevOps54%
- Grafana44%
- Linux44%
- Computer Science42%
- Scripting40%
- Site Reliability Engineering30%
- Datadog26%
- Cloud Infrastructure25%
- Error Budgets20%
- Innovation19%
- Software Development19%
- Debugging17%
- Cloud Platform17%
- GitHub Actions16%
- GitOps12%
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)12%
- GitLab11%
- PostgreSQL11%
- Git10%
- Telemetry10%
- Driven10%
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