Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Manages the systems engineering discipline and team within an aerospace organization. Responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, workload planning, technical guidance, requirements traceability, systems safety, test planning, flight-test data acquisition, performance evaluation, and continuous process improvement. The role supports product development from concept through production, coordinates with customers and engineering functions, and develops team capabilities and career paths. This is a fully on-site position in San Luis Obispo, California.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and grow a cross-functional software engineering team to deliver secure, high-quality cloud-native solutions. Manage day-to-day operations, mentor engineers, drive Agile/DevSecOps practices, coordinate architecture and roadmaps, oversee project delivery, budgets, and staffing, and collaborate with product and discipline leaders to support business objectives and technology modernization.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead and mentor a distributed team of 13 engineers across AI/ML, cloud backend, frontend, and DevOps. Own delivery cadence, remove blockers, plan milestones, manage performance, and foster career development. Champion CI/CD, cloud automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering excellence. Partner with German and US leadership on operations, architecture, organizational alignment, and scalable processes across time zones.

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering AI-powered data connectivity solutions. Owns execution, delivery, technical direction, operational reliability, and cross-team coordination. Develops engineering talent through coaching, hiring, and performance management while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on priorities and organizational planning. Guides architecture, cloud-native development, incident response, SLOs, and AI-assisted software development practices. Requires strong Java/Kotlin expertise, cloud architecture experience, and technical judgment across distributed systems.

Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Leads engineering and project execution for natural gas, liquids pipeline, terminal, facility, and station projects. Responsibilities include pipeline and facility design, material selection, feasibility studies, construction specifications, budgeting, scheduling, subcontractor coordination, reporting, quality and safety oversight, client relationship management, and mentoring staff. Requires a civil or mechanical engineering degree, Professional Engineer license, and at least seven years of pipeline and energy infrastructure experience.

Leads industrial engineering for new plant setup, capacity planning, line balancing, process optimization, MES/SFCS implementation, Lean and automation integration, and cross-regional manufacturing standardization. Oversees OEE, budgeting, staffing, technical roadmaps, quality reviews, continuous improvement, and engineering team leadership. Requires extensive large-scale manufacturing experience, greenfield plant setup or global operations expertise, and strong cross-functional and cross-cultural leadership.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for scalable cloud platform foundations and developer infrastructure. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, establish goals, prioritize resources, and guide execution through ambiguity. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to build standardized contact solutions for CRM use cases across business verticals. Drive reliability through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and scalable cloud operations while contributing to engineering-wide initiatives.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable infrastructure.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Lead the Content Foundations engineering team and evolve Scribd’s high-scale document ingestion platform into a real-time, AI-native system. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, integrating AI and ML capabilities, overseeing distributed data infrastructure, ensuring security and operational reliability, managing the roadmap, hiring and developing backend and AI data engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders across the organization.

Leads global test engineering for battery energy storage products, overseeing hardware, software, component, and system validation. Develops test strategies, automation, HIL and digital twin capabilities, lab infrastructure, KPIs, and continuous-improvement processes. Manages international teams, budgets, schedules, and resources while partnering with R&D, product management, manufacturing, customer support, and technical leadership to ensure product performance, reliability, safety, and environmental durability.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Leads and develops a software engineering team through coaching, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and engineering leadership on priorities, execution, architecture, and technical strategy. Reviews system designs, evaluates tradeoffs, supports code reviews, and drives improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, testing, and engineering processes. Works remotely with cross-functional leaders to deliver and maintain veterinary software products.

Lead delivery and technical execution for an AI-driven pipeline integrity platform spanning data architecture, engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and quality oversight. Manage compliance, security, audit readiness, release planning, hiring, team development, and cross-functional collaboration. Ensure platform outputs are traceable, reproducible, secure, and delivered predictably against phased milestones.