# Companies using Zipkin

1,315 companies use Zipkin, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. 398 job posts named it from October 2025 to August 2026. Software Engineer is the role that names it most often.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name Zipkin in the most job posts?

JPMorganChase, Absa Group and American Express are among the companies with the most job posts naming Zipkin. Four of these five companies are in Finance and Insurance.

| Company | Job posts | People | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| [JPMorganChase](https://sumble.com/orgs/jpmorgan-chase) | 229 | 16 | "Understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, Prometheus, ELK stack, Open Telemetry, Micrometer metrics, etc.)" (Director of Software Engineering - Java, Distributed Systems, Cloud, Hands on(Digital Post Trade Tech), Apr 7, 2026) |
| [Absa Group](https://sumble.com/orgs/absa-bank) | 124 | 0 | "aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc." (Senior ETL Developer, Sep 15, 2026) |
| [American Express](https://sumble.com/orgs/american-express) | 109 | 6 | "Distributed System Management/tracing and monitoring such as Zipkin/Jaeger, ELK Stack, Prometheus" (Software Engineer III - Java/ Go - GNST, Nov 7, 2026) |
| [Wells Fargo](https://sumble.com/orgs/wells-fargo) | 85 | 5 | "…Dynatrace, New Relic, DataDog, Kafka, CloudWatch, Jaeger, Zipkin, Big Panda, TrueSight" (Senior Software Engineer-Paltform support/Application support, Sep 12, 2026) |
| [OPSWAT](https://sumble.com/orgs/opswat) | 44 | 0 | "Hands-on understanding of major DevOps tools: Docker, Kubernetes (GCP GKE), CI/CD tools, Terraform, Ansible, Monitoring & Logging Tools (Zipkin, Sentry, Prometheus, ELK stack)." (L2 Technical Support Engineer (remote), Nov 5, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Zipkin growing?

From March to May 2026, 0.23 in every 10,000 job posts named Zipkin; from June to August, 0.19 in every 10,000 job posts. These are small numbers of job posts, so a few companies can move them.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 27 | 1,413,673 | 0.19 |
| Nov 2025 | 44 | 1,822,119 | 0.24 |
| Dec 2025 | 15 | 1,236,103 | 0.12 |
| Jan 2026 | 34 | 1,828,002 | 0.19 |
| Feb 2026 | 48 | 1,856,647 | 0.26 |
| Mar 2026 | 50 | 1,850,711 | 0.27 |
| Apr 2026 | 36 | 1,728,886 | 0.21 |
| May 2026 | 40 | 1,821,509 | 0.22 |
| Jun 2026 | 36 | 1,909,496 | 0.19 |
| Jul 2026 | 39 | 1,815,180 | 0.21 |
| Aug 2026 | 29 | 1,835,698 | 0.16 |

## How many companies named Zipkin in a job post for the first time in recent months?

In the three months to August 2026, 32 companies posted about Zipkin for the first time. From March to May, 40 did. The 32 from June to August are 5.5% of all 578 companies whose job posts name it.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 40 |
| June to August 2026 | 32 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 121 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use Zipkin?

The evidence for Zipkin is close to even: 44% of these companies name it in job posts, and 56% come from employees' profiles. 98 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Zipkin | 578 | 44% |
| Employees' profiles list Zipkin | 737 | 56% |

## What size are the companies that use Zipkin?

By size, Zipkin users are close to the typical tech page; companies with 50 to 999 employees are the largest group (36%). The second-largest group is companies with more than 5,000 employees, at 26%.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 18% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 36% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 20% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 26% | 23% |

## Where are Zipkin companies based?

India is 1.6 times as common among Zipkin companies as on the typical tech page, at 11%. The United States leads overall with 38%. Germany is less common than usual, at 2.8% against 4.4% on the typical tech page.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 463 | 38% | 43% |
| India | 134 | 11% | 6.9% |
| United Kingdom | 61 | 5% | 6.4% |
| France | 55 | 4.5% | 4.6% |
| Brazil | 39 | 3.2% | 2.8% |
| Germany | 35 | 2.8% | 4.4% |

## Which teams work with Zipkin?

The teams named most often in Zipkin job posts are DevOps, observability and SRE. Engineering teams come fourth, at 4 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| DevOps | 9 |
| Observability | 7 |
| SRE | 7 |
| Engineering | 4 |
| SCB enterprise DevOps | 3 |
| Cloud & compute engineering organization | 2 |

## Which roles mention Zipkin most?

Software Engineer and Observability Engineer roles account for 45% of the job posts that name Zipkin. The top four roles cover 61% of these job posts.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Software Engineer | 35% | 140 | 44 | 35 |
| Observability Engineer | 9.5% | 38 | 9 | 11 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 9.3% | 37 | 13 | 8 |
| DevOps Engineer | 7% | 28 | 6 | 5 |
| Software Architect | 4% | 16 | 7 | 5 |
| Platform Engineer | 3.8% | 15 | 2 | 5 |

## Which companies started naming Zipkin in job posts recently?

45 companies with 50 or more employees started naming Zipkin in job posts between April and August 2026. 13 of them have more than 5,000 employees. Kyndryl has the most job posts of the new enterprise companies, 3 from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [南京金斯瑞生物科技有限公司](https://sumble.com/orgs/南京金斯瑞生物科技有限公司) | 3 |
| Commercial | [TestingXperts](https://sumble.com/orgs/testingxperts) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Volante Technologies](https://sumble.com/orgs/ixb) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Taazaa Inc](https://sumble.com/orgs/taazaa-inc) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Pakistan Single Window (PSW)](https://sumble.com/orgs/pakistan-single-window-psw) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Home Credit Philippines](https://sumble.com/orgs/hc-consumer-finance-philippines) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Tkxel](https://sumble.com/orgs/tkxel) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [hiberus](https://sumble.com/orgs/hiberus-tecnologia) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Avenga](https://sumble.com/orgs/avenga) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Five9](https://sumble.com/orgs/five9) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Kyndryl](https://sumble.com/orgs/kyndryl) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Walmart](https://sumble.com/orgs/walmart) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [BNY](https://sumble.com/orgs/bny-mellon) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [Alcon](https://sumble.com/orgs/alcon) | 2 |
| Enterprise | [BNP Paribas](https://sumble.com/orgs/bnp-paribas) | 1 |

Companies that named Zipkin in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do Zipkin companies use?

Jaeger and Drools are the tools most closely tied to Zipkin. Fluentd is 37 times as common as usual, at 13%.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Jaeger | 188 | 63% | 0.55% | 114 times |
| Drools | 26 | 8.7% | 0.22% | 40 times |
| Fluentd | 40 | 13% | 0.36% | 37 times |
| Traefik | 20 | 6.7% | 0.22% | 30 times |
| Linkerd | 50 | 17% | 0.56% | 30 times |
| Hazelcast | 18 | 6% | 0.24% | 25 times |
| GCP BigTable | 27 | 9% | 0.4% | 23 times |
| Istio | 107 | 36% | 1.6% | 22 times |

Shares are out of the 299 companies whose job posts name Zipkin, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in Zipkin job posts?

Digital transformation is the broadest theme in Zipkin job posts (294); the most common specific one is Microservices Migration, at 209. Cloud Cost Optimization is next, in 100 job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Digital Transformation | 294 |
| Microservices Migration | 209 |
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 100 |
| Cloud Migration | 30 |

## About this data

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