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Which roles ask for Design Systems at tech companies · 16 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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16 roles counted that list Design Systems, one per company, title and level; 153 postings in the window.

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In short

Design Systems: listed in 16 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 6 and preferred in 10. The largest group is software engineer roles: 14 of 16.

Required
6 of 16
Of the roles that list Design Systems
Preferred
10 of 16
Of the roles that list Design Systems
Largest group
14 of 16
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Design Systems

Roles listing Design Systems, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer1414 of 719
Forward deployed engineer11 of 63
Mobile engineer11 of 38

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 16 Design Systems roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
TypeScript
13 of 16
React
11 of 16
State Management
8 of 16
Accessibility
6 of 16
CSS
5 of 16
Node.js
5 of 16
Python
5 of 16
REST
5 of 16
CI/CD
4 of 16
Git
4 of 16
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Component Libraries
8 of 16
AI Agents
4 of 16
AI
3 of 16
LLMs
3 of 16
A/B Testing
2 of 16
Accessibility
2 of 16
CI/CD
2 of 16
Data Visualization
2 of 16
Developer Tools
2 of 16
Next.js
2 of 16

Experience

Of the 11 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
11 of 11
2+ years
11 of 11
3+ years
10 of 11
5+ years
6 of 11
8+ years
1 of 11
10+ years
0 of 11

Degree

Of the 13 roles we could read for it

Required
2 of 13
Required, or experience instead
2 of 13
Preferred
0 of 13
Not mentioned
9 of 13

Pay and remote work

Of the 16 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
9 of 16
Remote roles
7 of 16

How we count: 16 roles from 15 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology