Technical Manager, Software Engineering at CoStar
Arlington, VA
$170,000–$258,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Arlington, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on engineering manager role leading a small Agile team (roughly 5–7 people) building and expanding a large-scale data platform that underpins several major real estate brands. Day-to-day work spans mentoring engineers, shaping web application architecture and CI/CD pipelines, translating business needs into technical plans, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development, observability tooling, and data quality solutions. Suited to an experienced software engineer with prior team leadership background.
Senior level · 7+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 230 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 140–350
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $199,482 (middle half $174,883–$233,831). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled 'Technical Manager' and explicitly involves leading a team of 5–7 direct reports, hiring, and roadmap ownership, which points to 11-3021. However, the posting also emphasizes a 'player-coach' model with hands-on coding expectations (C#, .NET Core, SQL Server as hard gates), making 15-1252 a genuine runner-up.
The degree requirement is unusually specific: a Bachelor's from an 'accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college' — for-profit or online-only institutions appear to be explicitly excluded.
LLMs and AI agent familiarity appear in the Basic Qualifications section under 'Familiarity with modern AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted development tools' — treated as a hard gate despite the softer 'familiarity with' phrasing, given its placement in the required qualifications block.
The distributed/API-driven systems requirement (3+ years) and web/database technologies requirement (3+ years) are role-level experience gates captured in the overall years minimum and the REST skill; no single named technology was specified for those requirements beyond what is already listed.
AWS is listed under Preferred Qualifications as 'preferably within AWS', so it is marked preferred. The posting names no other specific cloud platform as an alternative, but Azure and GCP are the standard substitutes.
The role is hybrid (Mon–Thu in-office in Arlington, VA; Fri remote), not fully remote.
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