Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead a globally distributed IT engineering team building enterprise integrations, workflow automation, orchestration, and AI-native workflows. Set technical direction, establish roadmaps, manage delivery metrics, and partner with business and service operations leaders to eliminate manual work. Guide engineers on architecture, CI/CD, testing, and development practices while evaluating emerging automation and AI tools. Build integrations across identity, ITSM, SaaS, and enterprise systems, and grow team capabilities across US and India time zones.

Leads and develops an engineering team focused on developer productivity and observability for autonomous vehicle software. Defines technical strategy and platform roadmaps, oversees distributed systems architecture, instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing, and supports incident response. Partners with AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability. Leads telemetry tools and data pipelines at scale while managing third-party observability vendors, costs, coaching, performance reviews, and career development.

Lead a team developing and releasing automotive connectivity hardware modules across vehicle platforms. Own specifications, sourcing, supplier and contract manufacturer coordination, bills of material, engineering changes, packaging, integration, DFMEA, validation builds, production approvals, and launch readiness. Partner with software, systems, vehicle, quality, purchasing, and product teams to resolve issues, meet cost and timing targets, satisfy safety, cybersecurity, EMC, and regulatory requirements, and communicate program risks to senior leadership.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Leads process engineering teams across two automotive manufacturing facilities. Oversees manufacturing documentation, process standards, new program launches, line layouts, capacity planning, engineering changes, continuous improvement, customer quality issues, and corrective actions. Partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Program Management, Materials Planning and Logistics, and Automation Engineering to improve safety, quality, productivity, throughput, scrap reduction, and production readiness.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and grow an observability engineering team to define technical vision, build instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing solutions, drive platform development and vendor management, and collaborate across AI/ML, firmware, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and incident response.

Lead the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

Lead and manage deployment engineers executing AMR site installations across regions. Own end-to-end deployment lifecycle, resolve technical/logistical issues, coordinate cross-functional teams, standardize deployment processes, report status to leadership, and mentor team members to ensure on-time, high-quality customer deployments.

Leads the strategy, validation, and safety assurance of Level 3–4 autonomous driving behaviors powered by machine learning. Owns behavior-related safety cases, standards alignment, ODD and evaluation frameworks, safety metrics, launch-readiness assurance, and evidence assessment across simulation, closed-course, and public-road testing. Leads cross-functional technical collaboration and builds a high-performing AV behavior safety engineering team through hiring, coaching, and development.

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.

Leads a Managed Services Engineering team delivering cloud, hybrid infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and managed operations services. Owns service delivery, SLAs, operational performance, resource allocation, customer satisfaction, governance, continuous improvement, automation, reliability, and escalation practices for government customer environments. Develops teams, manages service quality and financial performance, and serves as product owner for assigned managed services offerings.

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.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

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 LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform engineering team, overseeing high-throughput ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, reliability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Partner with product and engineering teams on roadmap planning, technical tradeoffs, and delivery. Coach engineers, manage performance and career growth, establish collaborative team practices, and participate in hiring.

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 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.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

Lead an engineering pod of 6–8 engineers, owning people management, delivery, operating cadence, onboarding, staffing, and cross-functional partnerships. Partner with Product and Technical Leads to prioritize valuable work, manage technical and quality risks, improve execution, and support engineer growth. Maintain enough technical depth to evaluate designs and contribute as an IC when appropriate. Surface risks, manage dependencies, and build a healthy, autonomous, high-performing team in a remote-first AI-native environment.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

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.