Remote Prometheus Jobs: 1,376 Open Positions (2026)

Remote Prometheus Jobs: Demand Overview

Prometheus appears in 1,376 active remote job postings tracked by RemoteHerd, across 578 companies. Prometheus is the dominant open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit on RemoteHerd, appearing consistently in DevOps and SRE roles where observability of cloud-native and containerised workloads is a core responsibility.

Where Prometheus Skills Are in Demand

Prometheus shows up across multiple job categories, but its concentration varies significantly. It's most prominent in DevOps roles, appearing in 16.6% of postings in that category.

• DevOps: 16.6% of postings in this category
• Backend: 2.1% of postings in this category
• Software Engineering: 1.7% of postings in this category
• Full Stack: 1.6% of postings in this category
• AI & Machine Learning: 0.9% of postings in this category
• Data: 0.6% of postings in this category

Skills Frequently Paired with Prometheus

Looking at the tech stacks of companies that use Prometheus, these are the skills most often found alongside it:

• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Grafana
• Python
• AWS

Remote Prometheus Salary Guide

Prometheus is used to scrape and store time-series metrics from services, Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure components. It almost always pairs with Grafana for visualisation and with Alertmanager for routing alerts. In Kubernetes environments, the kube-prometheus-stack is the standard deployment pattern that most remote DevOps and SRE roles expect familiarity with.

Companies Hiring Remote Prometheus Developers

578 companies in our dataset currently list Prometheus in their tech stack, spanning everything from early-stage startups to large engineering organisations.

Recent Remote Prometheus Job Openings

A sample of recently tracked remote roles requesting Prometheus:

• Platform Engineer - Clearance Required at LMI
• Site Reliability Engineer at Fullcast: The Intelligent Go-to-Market Platform
• DevOps Engineer, Mid-Level at Auros
• Platform Engineer - Clearance Required at LMI
• Site Reliability Engineer at Fullcast: The Intelligent Go-to-Market Platform

Building a Remote Prometheus Career

PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) is the core skill that distinguishes candidates who can meaningfully configure alerting and dashboards from those who've only deployed the tool. Grafana is effectively inseparable from Prometheus in the job market — the two are almost always listed together. Kubernetes is the most common infrastructure context, so pairing Prometheus/Grafana with Kubernetes and a cloud platform covers the majority of observability-focused remote roles. For a broader look at how Prometheus fits into the wider DevOps hiring picture, see the DevOps job market. If Kubernetes is also on your radar, see remote Kubernetes jobs for the same level of detail on that side of the stack.