Writing a engineering manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,037 live engineering manager postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,037
Employers: 527
Remote: 30%
Typical pay: $167k–310k
Verified live (7d): 972

What they ask for

Counted across 687 of the most recent 1,037 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Amazon Web Services32%
Python24%
Kubernetes21%
Large Language Models17%
Google Cloud Platform16%
TypeScript16%
Oracle Java16%
Microsoft Azure12%
Docker10%
Terraform10%
Apache Kafka9%
Microsoft Excel9%
GitHub8%
Node.js8%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Bjakcareer157
Databricks19
Flosum9
Datadog9
Careers at Tide8
Anthropic8
Roblox8
NVIDIA USA8
slihrms.wd3.careers7
ASSYSTEM6
Openai6
Grab6

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