Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16
Where can your career go next?
Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.
What this is and isn't
Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.
You are here
Staff Software Engineer
143 open jobs·52 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Staff Software Engineer. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.
Software Engineer is both the closest move and the biggest opportunity nearby, with 7,054 openings.
Skill transition
How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.
- Very close5
- Close5
Larger circles = more open jobs, from 114 to 7,054 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
Software Engineer
from Staff Software Engineer
Excellent match
Very close
Among the 5 closest moves from Staff Software Engineer.
7,054
openings in Software Engineer
6
skills you already have
4
skills to learn
0
skills to strengthen
You already have
Staff Software EngineerSoftware Engineershare of postingsdistributed systems
59%33%
full stack
38%33%
system design
43%20%
c++
22%20%
ui design
29%10%
developer experience
10%6%
You'll need to learn
- gitasked for in 17% of Software Engineer postings
- frontendasked for in 19% of Software Engineer postings
- ci/cdasked for in 23% of Software Engineer postings
- reactasked for in 20% of Software Engineer postings
How much work is out there
Staff Software Engineer143Software Engineer7,054This market has 49x more postings than yours.
What to do next
1 · Learn
git
Asked for in 17% of Software Engineer postings, and 3 other new skills.
2 · Look at the work
7,054 Software Engineer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
143 Staff Software Engineer postings · 7,054 Software Engineer postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16
Methodology
What is this based on?
231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.
How is distance calculated?
Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.
What do the skill lists mean?
Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.
What isn't included?
Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.
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