Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team while remaining hands-on with technical design and problem solving. Set backend architecture, service strategy, roadmaps, and engineering standards for scalable, secure systems. Partner with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver reliable customer-facing software, deploy models, improve platform tooling, and support incident response. Recruit engineers, guide team development, and foster ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for customer-facing products, payments, onboarding, internal tools, and production systems. Set technical direction, guide architecture, manage reliability and incident response, oversee delivery planning, and partner with Product, Design, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, capacity planning, operational excellence, and accountability for system quality, availability, performance, and delivery outcomes.

Leads two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for platform foundations, navigation, search, and resource organization. Oversees hiring, team development, technical direction, delivery, customer discovery, roadmap prioritization, and operational excellence. Partners with Product and Design, drives AI and automation adoption, maintains engineering standards, participates in management on-call, and improves productivity, reliability, accessibility, and customer outcomes across Grafana’s open-source and cloud products.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Leads software engineering teams through people management, workforce and capacity planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and sustainable delivery practices. Partners with technical, architecture, product, project, and HR leaders while maintaining clear leadership boundaries. The role develops engineers and managers, addresses organizational risks, improves management systems, and supports distributed Microsoft-centric engineering teams.

Lead the engineering team responsible for Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, operational processes, customer deployments, and enterprise support. Partner across engineering, sales, field engineering, and support; prioritize roadmap tradeoffs; maintain operational health; and grow the team through hiring and onboarding. The role requires technical leadership across Kubernetes and AWS, customer-facing collaboration, production on-call experience, and software delivery in private cloud, on-premises, BYOC, or managed single-tenant environments.

Leads a hands-on product engineering team, owning hiring, development, delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, and operational health. Partners with product and design to prioritize customer-focused work, manages milestones and dependencies, and contributes directly through code reviews, debugging, prototypes, and production fixes. Builds AI-native engineering workflows using agentic tools while maintaining security, correctness, human review, and strong engineering standards.

Leads a team of 3D artists and pipeline engineers delivering content and simulation framework engineering for autonomous vehicle simulation. Provides technical leadership, manages execution, assigns priorities, reviews deliverables and documentation, removes roadblocks, and collaborates cross-functionally. Responsibilities also include hiring, staffing, employee development, training, performance management, compensation planning, and communicating team strategy and organizational policies.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and development of Cadence’s AI-powered Clinical Intelligence platform. Build reliable clinical decision-support and medication recommendation systems using patient data, clinical protocols, safety rules, and clinician oversight. Hire, mentor, and grow AI, backend, and full-stack engineers while establishing engineering standards, testing, observability, validation, and regulatory-readiness practices. Partner with clinical, product, design, and AI stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable production systems.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

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 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 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.