Skill Lagoon

What today’s job postings actually ask for. Pick a role and a period - skill frequencies are counted across deduplicated postings, with links back to every source job.

Role

Posted date

Level

Platform Engineer

All available
All levels
23 postings
73.9% remote
About 4+ years exp.
small sample

Role snapshot

A quick overview of what this role tends to mean, drawn from the wording of the postings themselves.

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Sample details

Where these figures come from, how large the sample is, and how current the role snapshot is.

Posted All available Platform Engineer

Level All levels from job titles

Postings 23 deduplicated

Remote 73.9%

Sources

Adzuna 2 Jobicy 7 Other boards 14

Usual experience

Previous exposure or duration asked for in postings (for example, “3 years in business analysis”). Stated in 8 of 23 postings (34.8%).

About 4+ years Typically 3–5 years when stated

2–3 yrs 37.5%
4–5 yrs 62.5%

Often in

DevOps 2 Data Engineering 1 Data engineering 1 DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering roles 1 AWS in production environments 1

2+ years in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering roles
3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering
4–7 years of hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Platform Engineering in production environ

Must-have vs nice-to-have

A mention counts as required unless the ad puts it under Preferred / nice-to-have. 6 postings had an explicit Preferred section.

Required if listed

Kubernetes 100.0% CI/CD 91.7% Terraform 100.0% AWS 100.0% SQL 100.0% Docker 100.0% Python 77.8% GCP 100.0%

How current is this?

Whether the written role snapshot still matches the postings counted above.

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Role snapshot

Sample details

Usual experience

Must-have vs nice-to-have

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Skills, tools & credentials

CI/CD

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Debugging

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Testing

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ETL

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Distributed systems

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Microservices

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LLM

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Information security

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REST APIs

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Machine learning

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Data modeling

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Data warehousing

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System design

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GraphQL

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MLOps

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Kubernetes

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Terraform

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AWS

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Python

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SQL

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Docker

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GCP

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Linux

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Azure

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Redis

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Go

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Kafka

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Elasticsearch

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JavaScript

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BigQuery

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MongoDB

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dbt

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Airflow

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Snowflake

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Ruby

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Bash

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Git

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