Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead a distributed team of 6-8 engineers to deliver web applications from requirements through production. Own planning, delivery, incident response, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and AI-augmented development practices while partnering with product and engineering leadership to improve quality, scalability, and team health.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

Lead and grow a full‑stack engineering team building customer data and identity solutions. Own architecture, APIs, component libraries, code quality, hiring, mentoring, roadmap execution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Contribute code for high‑impact items and ensure scalable systems and agile best practices.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

The Project Engineering Manager leads engineering teams, manages project workflows, coordinates reviews, and ensures timely deliverables for critical minerals supply chain projects.

Manage a process engineering team to design equipment, systems, and P&IDs; ensure projects meet schedule, budget, quality, and safety standards; check calculations/drawings; develop design guidelines and specifications; assess feasibility, risks, man-hour requirements, and identify cost-saving opportunities.

Lead and manage a team designing, specifying, implementing, and commissioning industrial automation and control system projects (primarily DCS and SIS). Provide technical leadership for control narratives, logic development, system architecture, FAT/SAT, commissioning, safety (SIL/SIF), budgeting, scheduling, client relations, hiring, performance management, and compliance with industry standards and HSSE policies.

Manage an electrical engineering team to deliver safe, accurate designs on schedule and within budget. Oversee quality checks, resource and budget planning, client relationships, risk management, and staff hiring/performance. Provide technical direction, review vendor drawings, visit sites/vendors, and ensure HSSE compliance and design code adherence.

Lead a team of backend engineers to build cloud inference services on Kubernetes, focusing on operational excellence, incident response, and engineering best practices.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. Hire and develop engineers, drive technical vision, participate in product strategy, and contribute to cross-engineering initiatives. Ensure operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Manage and mentor multiple small engineering pods building and operating the control plane. Provide technical leadership, drive cross-functional product outcomes, hire and grow engineers, oversee on-call and incident response, and ensure high-availability production services while fostering an inclusive, remote-friendly engineering culture.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and grow a backend/infrastructure engineering team building the Experimentation product. Partner with PM and Design to plan and deliver features, collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, drive incident response and operational excellence, and participate in hiring and career development for engineers.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

Lead and manage a team building highly available, scalable full-stack microservices for global payments. Drive cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, and occasionally write or review code. Ensure regulatory-compliant, secure, and performant payment infrastructure.

Lead and grow the Database Reliability team to ensure highly available, scalable databases. Mentor engineers, shape incident response and capacity planning, collaborate with infrastructure/product/security, drive best practices for Postgres and CockroachDB, hire and scale the team, and own monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning across environments.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead 2–3 software teams (12–20 engineers), owning people management, hiring, retention, and stakeholder communication. Drive adoption of AI tools, guide technical debt and platform investment decisions, and partner with tech leads and Product Owners to keep delivery aligned and healthy in a regulated payments environment.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

Lead engineers building and operating DGX Cloud infrastructure across NVIDIA Cloud Partner and on-prem environments. Drive cluster operations, Kubernetes operability, automation, GitOps, observability, and incident response. Define roadmap, staffing, and operational ownership while partnering with platform, storage, networking, security, and TPM teams. Mentor engineers and foster a healthy on-call and incident review culture focused on durable fixes and operational excellence.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads systems. Drive delivery of partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability, and product integrations while partnering with Product, Data, Privacy, and other stakeholders. Hire, onboard, and create a healthy team culture focused on maintainable, secure, and privacy-aligned software.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, and product integrations. Partner with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering to navigate ambiguous privacy and policy constraints, ensure reliability and quality, hire and onboard engineers, and maintain sustainable delivery practices in a distributed environment.