Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Leads and develops a 5–10-person software engineering team, sets technical strategy, guides architecture and API design, and partners with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders. Owns product delivery, reliability, observability, incident response, security, automation, testing, continuous delivery, and operational health while hiring talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for AWS/Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, observability, incident response, and FinOps. Set technical direction for IaC, pipelines, and service management while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security and participating in on-call rotation.

Lead and grow engineering teams to improve delivery velocity, remove cross-functional friction, introduce lightweight processes, prevent burnout, and contribute to architecture while hiring and developing engineers.

Lead and grow a distributed engineering team to design, build, and operate a cloud-native data platform. Guide architecture, delivery planning, and vendor relationships while contributing hands-on to code and design reviews. Align technical execution with product priorities and ensure security, performance, and reliability of analytics and data systems.

Lead and manage SRE/DevOps teams to drive reliability roadmaps, oversee incident management, ensure cloud-native infrastructure scalability, security, and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to align reliability with business goals.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Lead and grow a mobile engineering squad building highly-available, distributed SaaS products. Drive technical execution, mentor engineers, run Agile ceremonies, hire, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, Security, Data, and GTM to deliver roadmap outcomes.

Lead a small team owning GFiber's multi‑terabit backbone design, reliability, capacity planning, and observability across IP and optical layers. Drive DWDM metro/long‑haul transport design, telemetry pipelines, automation tooling (Go/Python), and align team strategy with organizational goals while remaining hands‑on in design and code.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

Lead and grow the Customer Studio engineering team to deliver major product features, improve execution pace, hiring, reliability, and incident management. Drive data-warehouse performance optimizations, real-time audience syncing (CDC), analytics/experimentation, and integrate generative AI to improve user workflows while mentoring engineers and collaborating on roadmap and recruiting.

Lead and grow a senior engineering team building dashboards, notebooks, visualizations, and AI-assisted investigative tools. Partner with Product to drive roadmap and delivery, shape technical direction with staff+ engineers, mentor engineers, and ensure performance and scalability of analytical surfaces at enterprise scale.

Leads QA and application delivery across Tax & Licensing and Short-Term Rental platforms. Manages distributed employees and contractors, owns release and deployment processes, builds unified QA pipelines, expands test automation, establishes DORA delivery metrics, and reports release health and risks. Partners with engineering and product leadership while evaluating AI-assisted testing tools and developing team capabilities.

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.

Lead and grow an engineering team, set technical vision, drive delivery of scalable secure systems, partner with product/design, establish engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, TDD), mentor engineers, and promote innovation to advance Function's healthcare platform.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Lead the Lister engineering domain, owning roadmap, delivery, technical health, partner data quality, and team growth. Manage three pods via team leads, stay hands-on with architecture and code reviews, partner cross-functionally, own intake and reliability, and hire/mentor engineers to scale backend services and data pipelines that integrate messy third-party partner systems.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.

Lead and mentor a distributed infrastructure team to maintain and scale Airship's GCP cloud environment. Drive CI/CD, observability, automation, cost optimization, security, incident response, and infrastructure projects while collaborating cross-functionally and participating in hiring.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.