Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team across full-stack, data engineering, and BI. Own people management, technical direction (C#/.NET, SQL, Vue 3, Power BI), data pipeline reliability, roadmap delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices to improve velocity, quality, and health outcomes.

Lead and grow a 16-person engineering organization across four AI-focused pods. Set technical direction, guide AI-native product and engineering development, manage cross-team dependencies, and oversee delivery, quality, reliability, security, and velocity. Partner with product, design, and leadership on scalable full-stack systems, mentor engineers and technical leads, and promote strong practices in architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD within a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.

Lead and grow a backend/platform engineering team building API-driven systems and core services. Own technical direction, architecture, reliability, and integration with product, data science, and infrastructure. Hire and mentor engineers, contribute to code and architecture, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready backend APIs and platform tooling.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams across Supabase, owning people management, hiring, roadmap and delivery, incident command, SLOs, and cross-team coordination while driving engineering quality and async communication.

Lead and run engineering delivery end-to-end: own planning cadences, track projects, surface risks, command incident responses and run blameless RCAs, own delivery metrics, coach and grow engineers, run hiring pipeline, and enable the founder by removing operational load.

The Engineering Manager will lead and grow engineering teams working on core infrastructure, drive hiring, and ensure alignment in delivery between teams across disciplines.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to develop scalable software solutions, ensuring technical excellence and driving product innovation. Responsibilities include mentoring, overseeing code quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical delivery and integration efforts for a SaaS platform: act as technical SME for APIs, support presales and customer onboarding, triage integration issues, create documentation, and align engineering with sales and operations to scale integrations and improve SLAs.

Leads DevOps and Data Engineering teams supporting AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, incident response, data platforms, and pipelines. Sets platform strategy, mentors engineers, guides architecture, and manages technical roadmaps. Owns SOC 2 audits and penetration testing, coordinates vendors and auditors, improves security and reliability, and coaches teams on validating AI-assisted development. This player-coach role requires hands-on technical contribution and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment.

Lead and grow a team building shared test systems, production-like environments, workload testing capabilities, failure-mode validation, and engineering test frameworks. Drive system-level coverage, cross-team alignment, measurable improvements in pre-production confidence, and integration of validations into continuous or release pipelines. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, internal platform delivery experience, organizational influence, and the ability to translate production incidents into preventative test coverage.

Lead and grow a Support Engineering team that resolves complex product issues, integrations, and data workflows. Define escalation and triage practices, build scalable diagnostics and internal tools, collaborate closely with Engineering and Product, mentor engineers on debugging, logs, and database querying, and create repeatable processes to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

Lead engineering teams to develop AI-powered software for local governments, enhance user-facing features, and drive continuous process improvement.

Manage and grow the Video Enablement engineering team, own core video pipeline (ingest, transcode, storage, playback), enable third-party device integrations, collaborate on video roadmap, ensure scalable resilient AWS infrastructure, mentor engineers, contribute technically when needed, and support production incidents and cross-team enablement.

Lead and develop a remote team of Python engineers, ensuring their growth and satisfaction while driving high-quality software delivery.

As the Engineering Manager for Scribe's Platform team, you will lead the backend team, define technical strategy, collaborate on product outcomes, and foster engineering culture while ensuring reliability and compliance.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

Lead Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

Lead engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

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 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.

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 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.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.