Technology skill
Observability jobs
Instrumenting software so you can see what it is doing in production — metrics, logs, and traces. A core reliability skill for engineering and DevOps. Below: the 8 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Observability unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Software Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Data Engineer | 600 | salary |
| Backend Developer | 569 | salary |
| Security Engineer | 477 | salary |
| AI Engineer | 348 | salary |
| Developer Advocate | 50 | salary |
| MLOps Engineer | 27 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Observability.
- Accessibilitytogether in 453
- Social Mediatogether in 295
- Terraformtogether in 264
- Kubernetestogether in 469
- Dockertogether in 240
- CI/CDtogether in 364
Quick answers
What is Observability?
Instrumenting software so you can see what it is doing in production — metrics, logs, and traces. A core reliability skill for engineering and DevOps. On this board it is a technology skill, extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape. Every skill, defined: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Observability?
Observability unlocks 8 occupations on this board, with 3,271 live roles across them right now. The largest is DevOps Engineer (600 open).
What skills pair with Observability?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Observability are Accessibility (together in 453), Social Media (together in 295), Terraform (together in 264).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.