Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs

Lead Firestorm’s Simulation team and develop a reusable UAS simulation platform supporting aircraft models, sensors, propulsion, flight software, SIL/HIL testing, scenario orchestration, distributed execution, training, and demonstrations. Manage simulation infrastructure, integrations, automated test environments, cross-platform deployment, and team growth. The role requires hands-on software and simulation expertise across complex aircraft, robotics, networking, and hardware systems.

Leads the Risk Engineering team responsible for real-time authorization, fraud decisioning, underwriting pipelines, and third-party risk integrations. Owns technical strategy, roadmap prioritization, distributed-system reliability, vendor decisions, and cross-functional alignment. Develops and retains senior engineers, manages Staff-level contributors, and maintains technical credibility through hands-on engagement and AI-assisted engineering evaluation.

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 a software engineering team building Adyen's Debit Card Payments platform for NORAM. Set strategy, drive architecture, coach engineers, partner with product, ensure scalability, resilience, throughput, and reliability for large enterprise merchants.

Lead and scale Datadog's Forward Deployed Engineering program: define operating model, build FDE offerings, hire and develop engineers, capture field product feedback, run lightweight engineering sprints to create reusable assets, and partner with Sales/SE/Customer Success to drive customer deployments and measure impact on adoption and ARR.

Leads a full-stack Fleet Engineering team building Go and React/TypeScript tools for hardware ticketing, technician repairs, and fleet inventory workflows. Owns hiring, team development, product delivery, release cadence, reliability, observability, incident response, architecture, and cross-team APIs. Partners with operations stakeholders to improve data center hardware lifecycle management and fleet efficiency.

Lead an engineering team building and operating full-stack consumer applications that help Twitch creators grow revenue. Set team vision, drive customer-focused delivery, make technical and product trade-offs, develop employees, hire and retain talent, and collaborate effectively in an ambiguous environment. The role requires strong software development, system design, cloud infrastructure, communication, and people-management experience.

Lead an engineering team building and operating full-stack consumer applications that help Twitch creators grow revenue. Set team vision, drive customer-focused delivery, make architectural and product trade-offs, develop engineering talent, and collaborate across functions. The role requires strong software development and people-management experience, expertise in web services, cloud infrastructure, and system design, plus the ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, rapidly changing environment.

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 a greenfield engineering team integrating Ripple’s digital asset capabilities with its enterprise Treasury platform. Build full-stack .NET and Angular or React solutions, recruit and mentor up to four developers, establish engineering practices, and deliver secure, auditable software in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment. Partner with product, compliance, treasury, and digital asset teams to develop solutions for corporate treasury workflows, including custody, tokenized assets, XRP, RLUSD, and cross-border settlement.

Lead a greenfield engineering team integrating Ripple’s digital asset capabilities with its enterprise Treasury platform. Manage and mentor up to four full-stack developers while remaining hands-on with .NET backend and Angular or React frontend development. Establish engineering practices, ship software rapidly through Kanban, and collaborate with product, compliance, treasury, and digital asset teams to deliver secure, reliable, auditable financial software amid evolving requirements.

Leads software engineering teams and serves as the technical leader for customer-facing digital products, operational data products, and enterprise data pipelines. Responsibilities include setting architecture and development standards, managing the SDLC, applying AI/ML, designing cloud-based data solutions, optimizing AWS infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and supporting modeling and simulation initiatives.

The Front-End Engineering Manager leads product teams, oversees project planning, ensures technical excellence, mentors developers, and manages resources for effective delivery.

Leads a senior game engineering team developing Zwift’s cross-platform C++ gameplay systems. Responsibilities include people management, technical architecture, live-service operations, performance optimization, agile delivery, roadmap ownership, and cross-functional alignment across game design, product, UX, QA, and hardware teams.

Lead software engineering for a digital marketing platform, defining technical vision and multi-year product roadmaps. Manage and mentor a team, oversee scalable architectures and API integrations, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with product, design, data, and technology teams. The role focuses on AWS-based systems, AI-driven automation, data unification, agile delivery, and building high-quality software solutions.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for delivery, quality, team health, hiring, performance management, technical execution, production support, and customer escalations. The manager maintains technical fluency, oversees architecture and delivery plans, manages risks and SLAs, and partners with engineering leaders to ship scalable retail commerce systems. Experience with AI-assisted development, transaction-critical retail systems, distributed teams, and the listed technology stack is preferred.

Engineering leadership opportunities across Dragonfly portfolio companies. Candidates should have 6+ years of engineering management experience, including experience as a team lead, manager, or technical co-founder. Dragonfly’s Talent team confidentially matches candidates with aligned portfolio companies and facilitates introductions when mutual interest exists.

Lead distributed engineering teams building and operating cloud-native, AI-powered software systems. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery planning, technical decision-making, cross-functional partnership, AI-assisted development adoption, operational excellence, metrics, incident reviews, and continuous improvement. The manager will establish scalable engineering processes, guide architecture, improve reliability and productivity, and ensure secure, observable, resilient, and maintainable software delivery.

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.

Lead and develop a team building reliable frontend, backend, AI, and real-time collaboration capabilities. Translate company priorities into plans, manage technical quality, review architecture and code, debug production systems, improve reliability, support incident response, and coach senior engineers. Partner with Product and Design to shape useful classroom-focused software, manage hiring and performance, and guide effective use of AI development tools across distributed teams.

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 and grow the Mission Ops software engineering team while owning technical strategy, architecture, execution, and reliability across frontend, APIs, and backend systems. Build monitoring, alerting, incident management, and fleet operations capabilities for mission-critical hardware. Collaborate with Product and Go-To-Market teams, improve engineering processes, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on to distributed systems and web applications.

Lead the Edge Systems engineering team building high-performance Rust servers, desktop applications, and open-source client libraries. Manage and mentor engineers, define technical roadmaps with Product and Go-to-Market teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure reliable delivery for demanding hardware test environments. Contribute hands-on to architecture, code, performance, data ingestion, durable storage, and critical technical challenges. The role requires experience with low-latency systems, real-time acquisition, offline or air-gapped deployments, and engineering leadership.

Leads and mentors an engineering team building Veeam Kasten features for Kubernetes backup, recovery, and application mobility. Responsibilities include designing, developing in Go, testing, documenting, and delivering scalable concurrent systems; collaborating with product and engineering teams; and contributing to cloud-native open-source communities. The role requires engineering management experience, strong software development expertise, computer science fundamentals, and familiarity with Kubernetes and related container technologies.

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.