Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Leads the Data Platform and Infrastructure team, owning strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational development. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, guiding data ingestion and platform design, establishing APIs, SLAs, governance, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. The role partners with Product, Data, Finance, Security, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, experimentation, machine learning, and data products while scaling reliable infrastructure and developing future technical leaders.

Leads and scales the MSP/MSSP engineering team responsible for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities, including account hierarchies, tenant isolation, delegated administration, dashboards, licensing, and white-labeling. Oversees architecture, engineering quality, roadmap execution, partner support, hiring, mentoring, and team development. Collaborates with Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and engineering leadership while balancing strategic delivery with operational needs.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Leads the backend platform engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable, secure core systems. Owns platform strategy, roadmap, architecture, operational excellence, reliability metrics, incident response, and engineering quality standards. Manages, hires, and develops backend engineers while partnering with Product, Security, Customer Operations, and other engineering teams. Establishes guardrails for AI-assisted development and drives platform APIs, shared services, and infrastructure supporting company-wide product delivery.

Leads a team of 10 engineers building and maintaining NIBRS and compliance reporting capabilities for public safety records platforms. Oversees technical quality, validation, certification, delivery, incident follow-through, resource allocation, and team development. Partners with product, R&D, agencies, and regulators to implement federal and state reporting requirements, improve engineering operations, and define the roadmap for new states, report types, automation, and platform capabilities. The role is remote within the United States with travel of up to 25%.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

Leads and mentors cross-functional engineering teams building and operating distributed, API-driven, cloud-native platforms. Owns technical strategy, architecture, delivery outcomes, engineering excellence, operational reliability, and API lifecycle governance. Drives Agile, DevOps, cloud migration, observability, and incident management practices. Establishes responsible AI adoption across software development and guides delivery of AI-enabled products, including agentic solutions, with appropriate evaluation and controls.

Leads DevOps engineering teams and manages cloud infrastructure and foundational services across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Oversees infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, scalability, reliability, cost optimization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cloud security. Partners with product, engineering, and security stakeholders while mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices.

Leads a quality engineering team while remaining hands-on with AI-powered test automation across API, UI, integration, and end-to-end workflows. Evaluates AI tools, improves test frameworks and regression efficiency, supports release readiness, analyzes defects, tracks quality metrics, and partners with Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Release teams. Coaches employees on AI-native quality practices, prompt engineering, responsible AI use, and evaluating AI-generated tests.

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.

Leads large-scale cluster deployment from rack delivery through production acceptance, including network bring-up, cabling verification, GPU-fabric integration, validation, burn-in, and RCCL performance testing. Manages deployment engineers across concurrent builds, improves deployment velocity, establishes operational playbooks and acceptance gates, coordinates with data center teams and vendors, and drives defect resolution across network, cabling, and hardware partners.

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 a multi-team engineering organization responsible for delivery, technical quality, production reliability, security, privacy, and AI-native development practices. Build scalable teams and managers, establish cross-team delivery systems, partner with Product and Design, oversee observability and incident response, use engineering metrics to guide improvements, and shape hiring, leveling, and talent development.

Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.

Leads a full-stack engineering team developing customer-facing SaaS products across web, mobile, backend, and AI systems. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, delivery planning, product health, and measurable customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define and ship products, uses production data to guide priorities, and hires, develops, and manages engineering talent.

Lead Tailscale’s Developer Relations Engineering team while remaining hands-on with integrations, prototypes, demos, open-source projects, workshops, tutorials, and technical content. Own the team roadmap, coach technical contributors, collaborate cross-functionally on launches and product feedback, and measure developer engagement, activation, adoption, and business impact. The role requires strong software engineering, developer advocacy, program management, communication, and experience working in public developer ecosystems.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.

Lead a team in developing scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, manage expectations, and contribute to code. Focus on high-quality software practices.

Manage engineering teams and operations for the BootStack service, ensuring quality and timely delivery of managed services while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing team performance.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a remote team, manage MLOps projects, ensure high performance, and mentor engineers while driving product strategies.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers to enhance AppArmor security features, ensuring high quality results and collaboration with stakeholders.

The Engineering Manager leads the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, overseeing application design, development, and system integration while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement in software quality.

Lead architecture and scalability of cloud-native applications, manage a team of engineers, improve performance, and ensure code quality.