Systems Engineer jobs

Right now there are 1,947 systems engineer openings on our board, and 364 of them arrived in the last seven days. 401 of them are fully remote (remote systems engineer jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

618 of the 1,947 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $122k to $185k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the systems engineer salary page.

The three skills systems engineer postings name most often are Linux (28% of postings), Python (25%) and Azure (17%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 5 measured routes lead into systems engineer work. The closest is from devops engineer: a typical devops engineer profile already covers 68% of what systems engineer postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.