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Software Engineer
Software engineering is the single largest hiring category in Seeker's corpus. Here's what these roles actually ask for in 2026 — drawn from live listings, not job-board boilerplate.
69,000 active engineering listings in Seeker's corpus (34.6% of ~200,000) · data as of July 2026
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Analyze my resume freeMost-requested skills
- Cloud computingthe most-named technical skill across recent listings
- AWS34%of Python-requiring roles
- Dockercommonly paired with Python
- SQLcommonly paired with Python
- Pythonrequired by ~11.5% of all listings
Skills that cost interviews
Frequently required, frequently missing from resumes:
KubernetesTerraformCI/CDDistributed systems
Rising fast
Platform engineering Machine learning Kubernetes Terraform
Adjacent paths
- BackendPlatform Engineering
- FrontendFull-Stack
- Full-StackBackend / Infrastructure
34% of these roles are remote-eligible.
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