What employers ask for in Engineering Manager jobs

We read 18 current Engineering Manager postings from 17 companies' own career sites on November 4, 2026 and counted, posting by posting, what they ask candidates for.

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18postings read

17companies

5 yrsmedian minimum experience (16 postings state one)

33%say remote (28% hybrid)

Tools and technologies

Share of postings that name each one.

AWS28% · 5 of 18
TypeScript28% · 5 of 18
React22% · 4 of 18
Java17% · 3 of 18
Python17% · 3 of 18
C#11% · 2 of 18
Datadog11% · 2 of 18
GCP11% · 2 of 18
JavaScript11% · 2 of 18
Kotlin11% · 2 of 18
Kubernetes11% · 2 of 18
PostgreSQL11% · 2 of 18
Terraform11% · 2 of 18

Skills and methods

Distributed systems33% · 6 of 18
Agile17% · 3 of 18
CI/CD17% · 3 of 18
Observability17% · 3 of 18
Engineering management11% · 2 of 18
Hiring11% · 2 of 18
Infrastructure as Code11% · 2 of 18
People management11% · 2 of 18
Technical judgment11% · 2 of 18
Technical leadership11% · 2 of 18

Soft skills

Communication33% · 6 of 18
Coaching17% · 3 of 18

Experience

16 of 18 postings state a minimum number of years; the median is 5 years.

0–2 years19% · 3
3–4 years25% · 4
5–7 years31% · 5
8+ years25% · 4

Where and with what degree

Remote33%
Hybrid28%
On-site22%
Not stated17%
Degree required11%
Degree preferred11%

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Postings we read

Read on November 4, 2026; some may have closed since.

Company	Role
Abtrace	Engineering Manager
Alarm.com	Software Engineering Manager
Claylabs	Engineering Manager
Code for America	Engineering Manager
Databricks	Engineering Manager – Core Experiences
Databricks	Sr. Engineering Manager – Notebook Dataplane
Energysteel	Energy Steel & Supply Co. – Engineering Manager
FanDuel	Senior Platform Engineering Manager
Hoodhp	Project Engineering Manager
Human Interest	Engineering Manager – Mobile
Istaridigital Ai	Istari Digital – Digital Engineering Manager
Mark	Engineering Manager
Rillet	Engineering Manager
Socket	Engineering Manager
Supabase	Engineering Manager
Tide	Engineering Manager at Careers
Tremendous	Engineering Manager
Verkada	Software Engineering Manager – Alarms

How we counted

We searched company career sites hosted on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and SmartRecruiters for current postings titled “engineering manager”, at most two per company, and read each one. An AI model listed what each posting asks for; we kept an item only when the posting contains it word for word, and list it here when at least two postings ask for it. Seniority levels are mixed. Updated November 4, 2026.