Director of Engineering jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-21, Skillenai has indexed 201 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Distributed systems, with demand up 1% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-21
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+How many Director of Engineering jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 201 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-21, with demand up 1% 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 2026-09-21, the skills mentioned most often are Distributed systems, observability, AWS, CI/CD, software engineering.
+Which cities are hiring the most Director of Engineering?
As of 2026-09-21, Director of Engineering postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Bengaluru, London.
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Skillenai indexes 201 Director of Engineering postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-21, with demand up 1% 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 | 47 | 23.4% |
| observability | 41 | 20.4% |
| AWS | 31 | 15.4% |
| CI/CD | 26 | 12.9% |
| software engineering | 25 | 12.4% |
| microservices | 23 | 11.4% |
| Python | 22 | 10.9% |
| Engineering leadership | 20 | 10.0% |
| automation | 19 | 9.5% |
| incident response | 18 | 9.0% |
| Automated testing | 18 | 9.0% |
| Kubernetes | 17 | 8.5% |
| security | 17 | 8.5% |
| architecture | 16 | 8.0% |
| Engineering management | 15 | 7.5% |
Top metros hiring Director of Engineering
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 12 | 6.0% |
| Seattle | 10 | 5.0% |
| Berlin | 9 | 4.5% |
| Bengaluru | 5 | 2.5% |
| London | 5 | 2.5% |
| New York City | 5 | 2.5% |
| Boston | 4 | 2.0% |
| San Jose | 4 | 2.0% |
| Arlington | 3 | 1.5% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-21, matching postings whose canonical role is “Director of Engineering”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Director of Engineering
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-21
- window_days
- 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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