Writing a engineering manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,722 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: 1,722
Employers: 816
Remote: 26%
Typical pay: $170k–300k
Verified live (7d): 1,683

What they ask for

Counted across 1,052 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Amazon Web Services31%
Python22%
Kubernetes19%
Oracle Java17%
Large Language Models17%
TypeScript15%
Google Cloud Platform14%
Microsoft Azure11%
Apache Kafka10%
LinkedIn10%
Docker9%
Microsoft Excel9%
GitHub8%
PostgreSQL8%

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
Databricks22
NVIDIA USA14
GitLab12
slihrms.wd3.careers11
Lyft10
GE Vernova International LLC10
Roblox10
Hyphen Connect Limited10
Anthropic10
Openai9
Barclays Global Serv. Cent9

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