Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead a cross-continent team to enhance engineering productivity using AI tools, collaborate across departments, and deliver innovative product experiences.

Lead one or more engineering teams building and operating Airbnb's global payments platform. Set technical strategy, prioritize work, partner cross-functionally, drive reliability and compliance, reduce technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and deliver high-impact payment features and operational excellence at scale.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor a team of engineers while driving architectural decisions and hands-on coding. The role involves managing technical execution, collaboration with product teams, and fostering a culture of excellence within the engineering team.

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 small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

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 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.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Lead and grow a full‑stack engineering team building customer data and identity solutions. Own architecture, APIs, component libraries, code quality, hiring, mentoring, roadmap execution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Contribute code for high‑impact items and ensure scalable systems and agile best practices.

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.

Lead a team of backend engineers to build cloud inference services on Kubernetes, focusing on operational excellence, incident response, and engineering best practices.

Lead and manage the Segmentation and Insights platforms, focusing on autonomy and AI-driven solutions, while ensuring operational maturity and team growth.

As Engineering Manager for Code Plane, you will lead a team to develop and enhance tools that support code automation and AI integration while collaborating across functions to meet customer needs.