Southwest Airlines tech stack

Southwest Airlines builds mostly with Python, SQL, JavaScript, C#. Its stack also includes AWS, Tableau, OpenTelemetry, Amazon Redshift. AWS is named in 18 of the 42 job postings Southwest Airlines published in the last 12 months (43%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Southwest Airlines, updated Oct 3, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Oct 3, 2026
Technologies in use
96
Postings analysed
42
Open now
42
Modernity
72 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Southwest Airlines use?

Python is named in 36% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by SQL (29%), JavaScript (10%), C# (7%).

Python 15 36% required in 100% · 15 open now · since Sep 2026
SQL 12 29% required in 92% · 12 open now · since Sep 2026
JavaScript 4 10% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
C# 3 7% required in 33% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Java 2 5% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Oct 2026
Apex 2 5% optional · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Assembly 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Node JS 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
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TypeScript1

What frameworks and libraries does Southwest Airlines use?

OpenTelemetry is named in 17% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by LangChain (7%), LangGraph (7%), CrewAI (5%).

OpenTelemetry 7 17% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
LangChain 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
LangGraph 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
CrewAI 2 5% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
Ragas 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
TruLens 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026

What databases does Southwest Airlines use?

Amazon Redshift is named in 7% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by Amazon Aurora (2%), Apache Hudi (2%), Apache Iceberg (2%).

Amazon Redshift 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Oct 2026
Amazon Aurora 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Apache Hudi 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Apache Iceberg 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
Delta Lake 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026
DynamoDB 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026

What cloud and platforms does Southwest Airlines use?

AWS is named in 43% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by Tableau (31%), Amazon ECS (19%), Power BI (17%).

AWS 18 43% required in 100% · 18 open now · since Sep 2026
Tableau 13 31% required in 92% · 13 open now · since Sep 2026
Amazon ECS 8 19% required in 100% · 8 open now · since Sep 2026
Power BI 7 17% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Oct 2026
Grafana 7 17% required in 86% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
Kubernetes 7 17% required in 57% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
AWS Lambda 6 14% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
Amazon S3 6 14% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Oct 2026
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Amazon CloudWatch5
Amazon EKS5
Amazon Kinesis5
Apache Kafka5
AWS Step Functions4
Amazon EventBridge4
API Gateway3
Datadog3
SonarQube3
.NET2
MuleSoft2
AWS Bedrock1
AWS Fargate1
Airflow1
Amazon SageMaker1
Azure1
Databricks1
Figma1
GCP1
GitLab1
InVision1
MLFlow1
PagerDuty1
Spark1
Kibana1

What developer tools does Southwest Airlines use?

Alteryx is named in 26% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by Git (14%), Microsoft Excel (14%), Prometheus (14%).

Alteryx 11 26% required in 91% · 11 open now · since Sep 2026
Git 6 14% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
Microsoft Excel 6 14% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
Prometheus 6 14% required in 100% · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
Terraform 5 12% required in 100% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
CloudFormation 4 10% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
Docker 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
GraphQL 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
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JFrog Artifactory3
Model Context Protocol3
Nexus Repository3
Rest API3
Adobe Photoshop2
Adobe After Effects1
Adobe Premiere Pro1
Adobe XD1
AgentOps1
AutoCAD1
Axure RP1
Canva1
Claude Code1
Copilot1
Google ADK1
Jenkins1
Sketch1

What AI and ML technologies does Southwest Airlines use?

LLM is named in 2% of job postings at Southwest Airlines.

LLM 1 2% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Oct 2026

Which engineering practices does Southwest Airlines ask for?

CI/CD is named in 29% of job postings at Southwest Airlines, followed by AI Agents (17%), IAM (17%), Platform Engineering (12%).

CI/CD 12 29% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Sep 2026
AI Agents 7 17% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
IAM 7 17% required in 100% · 7 open now · since Sep 2026
Platform Engineering 5 12% required in 80% · 5 open now · since Sep 2026
Machine Learning 4 10% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2026
RAG 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Oct 2026
Shift-Left 3 7% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Sep 2026
Configuration Management 2 5% required in 100% · 2 open now · since Sep 2026
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ETL/ELT2
Prompt Engineering2
AIOps1
Chaos Engineering1
Embeddings1
FinOps1
NLP1
SLI/SLO/SLA1

What does each Southwest Airlines team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Early Careers

10 postings
Tableau6
Alteryx5
Power BI5
Microsoft Excel4
SQL3
Java2

Backend

7 postings
AWS7
Python5
AWS Lambda4
OpenTelemetry4
Amazon CloudWatch3
Amazon ECS3

Analytics

4 postings
SQL4
Alteryx3
Python3
Tableau3

Product

4 postings
AWS2
Grafana2
OpenTelemetry2
Prometheus2

Enterprise Apps

3 postings
GraphQL3
Rest API3
AWS2
Git2
MuleSoft2

DevOps

3 postings
AWS3
Amazon ECS3
CloudFormation3
Docker3
JFrog Artifactory3
Kubernetes3

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How much does Southwest Airlines pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Southwest Airlines postings with stated pay: $52k across 23 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
Tableau11$52k0%
SQL8$52k0%
Power BI7$52k0%
Python6$56k+8%

How is the Southwest Airlines stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Power BIOct 2026
Amazon S3Oct 2026
Amazon KinesisOct 2026
Amazon RedshiftOct 2026
RAGOct 2026
Adobe PhotoshopOct 2026
ETL/ELTOct 2026
JavaOct 2026

How modern is the Southwest Airlines stack?

Modern AI adopter 72/100

Southwest Airlines scores 72 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

Questions about the Southwest Airlines tech stack

What programming languages does Southwest Airlines use?

The languages named in Southwest Airlines job postings are Python (36%), SQL (29%), JavaScript (10%), C# (7%), Java (5%), as a share of the 42 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Southwest Airlines use OpenTelemetry?

Yes. OpenTelemetry is named in 7 of 42 job postings (17%) and required in 7 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Southwest Airlines use?

The cloud and platforms named in Southwest Airlines job postings are AWS (18), Tableau (13), Amazon ECS (8) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Early Careers job at Southwest Airlines?

Early Careers postings at Southwest Airlines most often require Tableau (6), Alteryx (5), Power BI (5), Microsoft Excel (4), out of 10 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Southwest Airlines tech stack changing?

Yes. Power BI, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift first appeared in Southwest Airlines job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Southwest Airlines tech stack?

Southwest Airlines scores 72 out of 100 (Modern). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 1; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Southwest Airlines tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Southwest Airlines publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 42 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Oct 3, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Southwest Airlines tech stack: 96 technologies from 42 job postings", as of Oct 3, 2026. https://alion.io/company/southwest-com/technologies

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