Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for Ford’s Subscription Revenue Platform, covering subscription lifecycle management, billing, invoicing, revenue, accounting integrations, tax processing, and financial data integrity. Owns platform strategy, architecture, reliability, compliance, incident management, modernization, and operational excellence while developing engineering talent and partnering with product, finance, architecture, and business stakeholders. Advances automation, DevOps, AI-assisted development, and AI Agents across the platform.

Lead a team that builds and operates CI/CD, configuration management, and embedded software developer tooling. Define platform strategy, enforce repository and artifact standards, drive reliability and security across GitHub, Artifactory, Azure, and CI systems, partner with stakeholders to improve developer productivity, and grow team capability through hiring and coaching.

Leads all engineering functions at an automotive coatings manufacturing plant. Manages process, project, and controls engineers; supports safe and reliable operations; oversees process safety and regulatory compliance; leads capital planning and project execution; drives Lean, Six Sigma, reliability, productivity, and process optimization initiatives; manages engineering budgets; and collaborates with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, and EH&S.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Leads the engineering team building Webflow’s code-native platform, including high-fidelity visual-to-code workflows and coding-agent integration. Sets technical and product direction, shapes architecture, owns developer experience, sequences platform and customer-facing work, and partners across product, design, and engineering. This player-coach role includes architecture reviews, prototyping, hands-on contributions, hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing technical culture.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads systems. Drive delivery of partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability, and product integrations while partnering with Product, Data, Privacy, and other stakeholders. Hire, onboard, and create a healthy team culture focused on maintainable, secure, and privacy-aligned software.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, and product integrations. Partner with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering to navigate ambiguous privacy and policy constraints, ensure reliability and quality, hire and onboard engineers, and maintain sustainable delivery practices in a distributed environment.