Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Columbus, OH

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for core platform services, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems. Drive operating cadence, technical direction, scalability, reliability, and debt reduction. Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in architectural decisions, hire and develop engineers, and ensure predictable delivery and high-quality solutions at scale.

Lead technical direction and delivery for 3-5 engineering teams, provide hands-on engineering and architectural guidance, manage and mentor engineers, ensure system reliability and CI/CD/DevOps practices, collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into scalable, secure production systems.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

Leads a backend platform engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, delivery, roadmap planning, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Builds reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities supporting multiple products. Drives scalability, reliability, developer experience, observability, security, automation, incident response, capacity planning, and operational excellence while contributing to technical decisions and troubleshooting.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Lead and develop distributed software engineering teams; define and execute platform roadmap, architecture, and standards; improve delivery, reliability, and developer productivity; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver scalable cloud-native platform services and shared capabilities.

Design, build, and maintain custom applications using Google AppSheet; integrate apps with Excel and SQL databases; gather requirements from stakeholders; implement workflows, dashboards, and data models; monitor and optimize app performance; provide user training and documentation; apply AI and process-improvement methods to automate and enhance PMO operations.

Lead a global electrical engineering team to design, validate, and support high-density liquid cooling systems for data centers. Oversee NPI, product transfers, manufacturing support, testing, documentation, compliance with electrical standards, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration while developing team capability and reporting to senior leadership.

Lead a small infrastructure engineering team while remaining approximately 50% hands-on. Own production reliability and modernization of Swiftly’s Azure Kubernetes platform, complete migration from legacy infrastructure, improve developer experience, and deliver infrastructure initiatives. Set priorities, coach engineers, partner with security and compliance teams, establish pragmatic technical guardrails, and promote AI-assisted development and operations.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing code and providing technical direction. Owns agile rituals, production feature delivery, technical architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product and design teams, supports enterprise customers, and drives adoption of AI throughout software development. The role focuses on healthcare software, patient data collection, regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and integrations using HL7 and FHIR.

Lead and grow the Database Reliability team to ensure highly available, scalable databases. Mentor engineers, shape incident response and capacity planning, collaborate with infrastructure/product/security, drive best practices for Postgres and CockroachDB, hire and scale the team, and own monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning across environments.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

Lead and grow a team of Azure Solution Engineers to drive cloud migration, application modernization, and AI adoption for Education, Nonprofit, and IGO customers. Partner with sales, engineering, product, and partners to deliver secure, governed, and scalable Cloud & AI solutions, scale repeatable plays, and coach technical talent to achieve measurable customer and business outcomes.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. Hire and develop engineers, drive technical vision, participate in product strategy, and contribute to cross-engineering initiatives. Ensure operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Manage and mentor multiple small engineering pods building and operating the control plane. Provide technical leadership, drive cross-functional product outcomes, hire and grow engineers, oversee on-call and incident response, and ensure high-availability production services while fostering an inclusive, remote-friendly engineering culture.

Lead and grow a backend/infrastructure engineering team building the Experimentation product. Partner with PM and Design to plan and deliver features, collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, drive incident response and operational excellence, and participate in hiring and career development for engineers.

Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.