Director of Engineering jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 268 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Distributed systems, with demand down 31% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Director of Engineering jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 268 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 31% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Director of Engineering jobs require?
Across Director of Engineering postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are Distributed systems, software engineering, AWS, observability, Engineering leadership.
+Which cities are hiring the most Director of Engineering?
As of 2026-05-17, Director of Engineering postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, Bengaluru, San Francisco, Toronto, London.
+Is Director of Engineering a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 268 Director of Engineering postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 31% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Director of Engineering postings is Distributed systems, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Director of Engineering postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Director of Engineering
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed systems | 91 | 15.6% |
| software engineering | 66 | 11.3% |
| AWS | 55 | 9.4% |
| observability | 48 | 8.2% |
| Engineering leadership | 39 | 6.7% |
| Kubernetes | 34 | 5.8% |
| reliability engineering | 32 | 5.5% |
| scalability | 30 | 5.1% |
| automation | 28 | 4.8% |
| microservices | 28 | 4.8% |
| Python | 27 | 4.6% |
| machine learning | 27 | 4.6% |
| React | 27 | 4.6% |
| security | 27 | 4.6% |
| Java | 26 | 4.4% |
Top metros hiring Director of Engineering
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 23 | 23.7% |
| Bengaluru | 20 | 20.6% |
| San Francisco | 18 | 18.6% |
| Toronto | 9 | 9.3% |
| London | 8 | 8.2% |
| Berlin | 7 | 7.2% |
| Santa Clara | 5 | 5.2% |
| Seattle | 4 | 4.1% |
| Austin | 3 | 3.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Director of Engineering”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Director of Engineering
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-05-17
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- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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