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What Engineering Manager job postings ask for

AI appears in 35% of Engineering Manager job postings, followed by Distributed systems (14%) and AWS (13%) — counted across 225 live postings from company career sites.

Every term below was counted in real postings published by employers. We tally what each posting names at least once, so one keyword-stuffed listing can’t inflate a number.

Counted across 225 Engineering Manager postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Percentages are the share of those postings naming each term. Last verified against live postings on ; re-checked every six hours.

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. AI35% · 79 of 225
  2. Distributed systems14% · 32 of 225
  3. AWS13% · 29 of 225
  4. Python10% · 23 of 225
  5. Java10% · 23 of 225
  6. Azure8% · 18 of 225
  7. GCP8% · 18 of 225
  8. Go8% · 18 of 225
  9. LLM8% · 18 of 225
  10. Machine learning7% · 16 of 225
  11. Kubernetes7% · 16 of 225
  12. Observability6% · 14 of 225
  13. Apache spark6% · 14 of 225
  14. React5% · 11 of 225
  15. CI/CD5% · 11 of 225
  16. Rust4% · 9 of 225
  17. SaaS4% · 9 of 225
  18. SQL4% · 9 of 225
  19. ML4% · 9 of 225
  20. LLMs4% · 9 of 225
  21. Delta lake4% · 9 of 225
  22. Databricks4% · 9 of 225
  23. GenAI4% · 9 of 225
  24. Linux4% · 9 of 225
  25. JavaScript4% · 9 of 225

Questions about this data

What skills do most Engineering Manager job postings ask for?

Across 225 Engineering Manager postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are AI (35%), Distributed systems (14%), AWS (13%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is Machine learning in Engineering Manager postings?

Machine learning appears in 7% of the 225 Engineering Manager postings counted — roughly 16 of them. That places it mid-pack rather than near-universal, which is worth knowing before you rewrite a résumé around it.

Where does this Engineering Manager data come from?

Public job postings published by employers on their own career sites, collected through the official Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job-board APIs. It is a count of 225 real postings seen in the last 90 days — not a survey, an estimate, or a model's guess.

Should I add these skills to my résumé?

Only the ones you genuinely have. Frequency tells you which terms to surface and phrase in the employer's own words if they are already true of you. Adding a skill you can't defend is the fastest way to fail an interview, so FreshStartr reports gaps rather than writing them in.

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Which of these does your résumé actually evidence?

Paste a Engineering Manager posting and you get a line-by-line match report: what you already prove, and what you don’t. Gaps are reported, never written in for you.

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