Director of Engineering jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-30, Skillenai has indexed 213 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Distributed systems, with demand share up 2.8% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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+How many Director of Engineering jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 213 job postings with the title “Director of Engineering” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30.
+What skills do Director of Engineering jobs require?
Across Director of Engineering postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, the skills mentioned most often are Distributed systems, observability, AWS, Python, CI/CD.
+Which cities are hiring the most Director of Engineering?
As of 2026-09-30, Director of Engineering postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, London, Bengaluru.
+Is Director of Engineering a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 213 Director of Engineering postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. 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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+What roles do people move into and out of Director of Engineering?
The career-flow chart shows roles before and after observed employer changes across all locations. Counts are moves, not distinct people or promotion probabilities. Same-role moves to another employer are included. The incoming and outgoing sides are separate groups of observations, not a matched three-stage journey.
Weekly indexed Director of Engineering postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths through Director of Engineering
Different-role employer moves. Each side is scaled independently.
Not enough linked career history to draw this chart yet.
Skills most often required for Director of Engineering
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed systems | 45 | 21.1% |
| observability | 39 | 18.3% |
| AWS | 36 | 16.9% |
| Python | 26 | 12.2% |
| CI/CD | 25 | 11.7% |
| software engineering | 24 | 11.3% |
| automation | 23 | 10.8% |
| microservices | 21 | 9.9% |
| Kubernetes | 20 | 9.4% |
| incident response | 20 | 9.4% |
| Engineering leadership | 19 | 8.9% |
| security | 19 | 8.9% |
| React | 16 | 7.5% |
| testing | 15 | 7.0% |
| Automated testing | 15 | 7.0% |
Top companies posting Director of Engineering jobs
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Gitlab | 6 |
| Harmattan AI | 6 |
| Vinted | 5 |
| Accor | 5 |
| Spotify | 4 |
| NiCE | 4 |
| ServiceNow | 4 |
| Remitly | 3 |
| Benchmark | 3 |
| Scale AI | 3 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring Director of Engineering
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 12 | 5.6% |
| Seattle | 9 | 4.2% |
| Berlin | 8 | 3.8% |
| London | 7 | 3.3% |
| Bengaluru | 6 | 2.8% |
| New York City | 5 | 2.3% |
| Boston | 4 | 1.9% |
| San Jose | 4 | 1.9% |
| Santa Clara | 4 | 1.9% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, matching postings whose canonical role is “Director of Engineering”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles). Adjusted posting share: 0.1% to 0.1%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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- Director of Engineering
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