Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.

Lead engineering ownership of an acquired consumer VPN product from due diligence through integration, stabilization, and growth. Manage and coach engineers while remaining hands-on with Kotlin, Swift, Go, architecture, operations, security, and production incidents. Establish testing, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and compliance practices; partner with product, corporate development, marketing, and operations; and create a repeatable engineering playbook for future acquisitions.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.

Lead and grow the Database Platform team responsible for PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and future data stores supporting NodeZero at scale. Own data architecture, schema governance, reliability, performance, SLOs, migrations, on-call maturity, and multi-tenant data practices. Partner with engineering, security research, and product teams to define data contracts and prioritize the platform roadmap. Hire and mentor engineers while establishing strong operational and engineering standards.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Lead an engineering organization building secure enterprise container and Kubernetes platforms. Define technical strategy, improve platform resilience and operational excellence, embed security throughout the SDLC, balance feature delivery with stability, hire and develop engineering talent, and collaborate with product leaders, executives, and enterprise customers.

Leads multiple engineering teams developing customer-facing web applications, APIs, and services for DNS and IP Acceleration products. Responsibilities include people development, technical direction, delivery planning, dependency and risk management, architecture oversight, operational readiness, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. The role requires balancing technical leadership with accountability for product outcomes across established products and new capabilities.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Lead two engineering teams of 8–10 engineers, owning delivery, quality, capacity planning, sprint execution, OKRs, hiring, retention, and professional development. Establish scalable engineering processes, quality gates, testing standards, observability, and continuous improvement practices. Partner with Product Managers on roadmap execution while providing technical guidance on architecture, APIs, backend systems, infrastructure, and frontend platforms.

Leads Samsara’s Quality Engineering and Test Infrastructure organization, setting strategy and building scalable testing platforms, automation frameworks, environments, simulators, test data systems, and CI/CD integrations. Establishes quality metrics, improves regression prevention and release confidence, reduces flaky tests and feedback times, and partners across engineering and product teams. The role also includes AI-assisted testing initiatives, exploratory validation, organizational leadership, hiring, coaching, and developing engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

Leads and manages software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, budgeting, planning, roadmap delivery, system design, and technical strategy. Oversees scalable, secure, compliant applications across multiple technology stacks, drives CI/CD, migrations, modernization, process improvement, and engineering best practices, and partners with product and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality customer-facing solutions.

Lead the Client Platform organization responsible for container image builds, software supply chain security, and over-the-air updates across customer environments. Manage engineering managers and approximately 10 engineers, establish engineering culture, drive architecture decisions, operate secure CI/CD pipelines, and own distributed update systems. Partner with security research, product management, and customer success to deliver the client-side roadmap.

Leads and grows an engineering team responsible for customer-facing web, mobile, and backend products. Owns delivery, technical direction, architecture, reliability, hiring, coaching, and career development. Partners with Product and Design to prioritize work and deliver dependable releases. Establishes AI-assisted engineering practices, supports AI-powered customer experiences, and builds systems for scheduling, payments, client management, notifications, and integrations.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

Leads Natera’s Software Engineering and DevOps team within Data Science Production Engineering. Responsibilities include managing engineers, designing and maintaining AWS cloud and data platforms, developing automation and production software, optimizing infrastructure performance, overseeing testing and deployment, enforcing quality and compliance procedures, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating infrastructure roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders. The role supports regulated genomics and medical diagnostics environments and requires expertise in Python, databases, AWS, Linux, software development, and genomics data.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead a global network engineering team to design, scale, and operate large-scale IP and optical backbone and hybrid cloud connectivity. Own technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy, automation, vendor relationships, hardware/software integration, testing, tooling, DDoS mitigation, operational excellence, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations while ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

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.

Leads semiconductor process engineering teams supporting 300mm high-volume manufacturing. Owns tool installation, process release, capacity enablement, cost reduction, sustaining engineering, excursion response, root-cause resolution, SPC governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with manufacturing, equipment, integration, technology, yield, operations, and facilities teams while reporting operational performance to senior leadership.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering AI-powered data connectivity solutions. Owns execution, delivery, technical direction, operational reliability, and cross-team coordination. Develops engineering talent through coaching, hiring, and performance management while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on priorities and organizational planning. Guides architecture, cloud-native development, incident response, SLOs, and AI-assisted software development practices. Requires strong Java/Kotlin expertise, cloud architecture experience, and technical judgment across distributed systems.

Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

Executes systems engineering across R&D platforms, hybrid cloud, SaaS, HPC, containers, integrations, data pipelines, observability, and AI architectures. Coordinates Enterprise IT, vendors, cybersecurity, compliance, and scientific stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, validated, and supportable solutions. Develops technical documentation, deployment plans, runbooks, monitoring, lifecycle artifacts, risk logs, and operational handoffs. Implements RAG, vector database, AI gateway, agentic workflow, and multimodal integration patterns while supporting cloud migration, change management, governance, and technical issue resolution.