Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable enterprise software and products. Own engagement relationships, product roadmaps, architecture (APIs, microservices), CI/CD and quality practices, project planning, and mentoring of junior staff to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

Leads a 2–4 person engineering team while remaining hands-on in a TypeScript codebase. Owns delivery planning, performance management, career development, technical contributions, incident response, team health, quality, and compliance. Partners with Product, Design, and engineering teams to translate strategy into reliable software, manage risks and dependencies, remove blockers, and improve productivity through AI-enabled engineering practices.

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 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 mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads a full-stack engineering growth pod, owning its roadmap, delivery quality, team culture, hiring and career development. The manager remains hands-on by writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, coaching engineers, and participating in technical decisions. The team rapidly experiments with product experiences, using data-driven insights to help people discover and understand Atticus services. The role partners closely with product, design, and data science while operating in an ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment.

The job description provides limited role-specific details. The Platform Engineering Manager would presumably lead platform engineering efforts supporting Zocdoc’s digital healthcare marketplace, collaborating with teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and platform capabilities.

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

Leads the creation and operation of a multidisciplinary engineering organization supporting full-scale launch test programs. Oversees test-site design, fabrication, installation, activation, rapid prototyping, documentation, technical decisions, schedules, resources, risk mitigation, and stakeholder coordination. Manages and mentors engineering personnel while providing expertise in testing, instrumentation, controls, data acquisition, and multidisciplinary systems. Requires extensive engineering experience, leadership background, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Leads the Manufacturing Engineering organization across value streams and facilities. Owns post-launch manufacturing processes, standards, capacity, layouts, labor standards, routing, tooling, and process data governance. Drives safety, quality, productivity, throughput, cost reduction, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, engineering change implementation, automation projects, and capital investments. Partners with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Industrialization Engineering, and Continuous Improvement teams on manufacturing readiness, new product introduction, capacity planning, and site expansion.

Leads the Industrialization Engineering organization and standardizes manufacturing readiness, launch governance, and product transition processes across North American facilities. Oversees FOK builds, NPI, capacity and labor planning, facility layouts, automation roadmaps, factory expansions, Make-versus-Buy analysis, TCO, PFEP, and vertical integration initiatives. Partners with Product Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality teams while developing technical teams and scalable manufacturing capabilities.

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.

Leads a network engineering team responsible for resilient office, data center, and cloud infrastructure supporting critical investment and business applications. Owns network architecture, modernization roadmaps, automation, observability, incident response, change management, vendor relationships, and operational risk reduction. Provides technical direction, stakeholder communication, mentoring, prioritization, and performance management while ensuring secure, highly available, low-latency network services.

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.

Leads global manufacturing engineering for server and storage products across PCBA and system-level manufacturing. Responsibilities include process strategy and validation, NPI ownership, DFM, PFMEA, automation, mistake-proofing, continuous improvement, technology roadmaps, quality and yield improvement, and team development. Partners with design engineering, quality, operations, and contract manufacturers to establish scalable, cost-effective, high-throughput production systems.

Leads a process engineering team supporting optical thin film manufacturing. Oversees process development, equipment and tooling implementation, manufacturing support, data analysis, quality compliance, continuous improvement, technology transitions, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. Manages engineering staff, performance, training, hiring, and resources while ensuring adherence to ISO, EHS, export control, intellectual property, and company requirements.

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.