Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Madison, WI

Leads an engineering team building and scaling customer-facing integrations for agentic AI products. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, balancing customer delivery with reusable tooling and platform investments, ensuring reliability and observability, improving developer experience, collaborating cross-functionally, recruiting, and coaching engineers. The role requires customer empathy, strong engineering leadership, technical problem-solving, and experience with production systems or integrations.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building high-scale, low-latency consumer authorization platforms. Provide technical vision, partner with product, security, and data teams, balance short-term needs with long-term strategy, and hire, mentor, and retain diverse engineering talent.

Lead two teams (Consent Data & Privacy and User Data Management) as a manager-of-managers, owning execution and multi-year technical vision for user consent, data collection, storage, pipelines, access, retention, and compliance. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Legal to enforce consent and data governance at scale, adapt to evolving regulations, and drive architecture and platform solutions.

Lead two engineering groups building shared foundational services (identity, subscription). Drive technical strategy, architecture, observability, CI/CD, and DORA metrics. Manage people, hiring, cross-team collaboration, product partnerships, and mentor engineers while occasionally prototyping and contributing to code and technical planning.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team while staying hands-on: design and build Python/FastAPI services with Temporal and Postgres, own roadmap and delivery, set SLIs/SLOs, drive observability and reliability, run engineering rituals, hire and coach engineers, and improve quality with DevOps and AI tooling.

Lead and grow engineering teams building AI-powered automation (especially LLM/Agentic AI) for compliance. Drive architecture, scalable multi-tenant systems, cloud-based engineering, cross-functional roadmaps, hiring, code quality, incident response, and delivery of high-impact AI/ML products.

Lead remote K‑12 engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver high-availability cloud-native education platforms. Combine people management, Agile delivery, and hands-on technical leadership to modernize legacy systems, implement CI/CD and IaC, integrate emerging GenAI capabilities, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and product performance.

Lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery for core platform domains (authentication, tenancy, APIs, messaging, tooling). Build and coach platform engineering teams, drive cross-team adoption, ensure reliability, observability, security, and cloud cost efficiency for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design, ship, and support web-based features. Balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and system improvements; perform hands-on code review and triage; collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support; hire, coach, and mentor engineers; and establish processes for iterative, high-quality delivery that meet customer needs and SLAs.

The Manager - Engineering oversees equipment lifecycle management, coordinates installation, drafts SOPs, and manages project activities related to equipment onboarding and technology introduction.

Lead and grow two Merchants engineering teams (Core and Growth). Own technical direction, architecture (billing, checkout, delivery promise), hiring, roadmap, sprint health, and cross-functional partnerships to deliver reliable merchant-facing product features.

Manage and grow an I&C and electrical engineering team to design, procure, install, and commission control systems, instruments, and power distribution (DCS, PLC/PAC, DAQ). Oversee specifications, testing, vendor/contractor coordination, licensing support, commissioning, and customer-facing technical input for isotope production and customer projects in a regulated environment.

Lead the design and development of control systems and electrical equipment for SHINE Technologies, managing a team of engineers and collaborating with project managers and stakeholders.

The Engineering Manager will drive the growth of the engineering team, overseeing product development, architectural decisions, and integration of emerging technologies in web3.

Lead the Engineering team responsible for the API, focusing on platform strategy, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development and API performance.

Lead a team of engineers in building AI-native music experiences, ensuring quality delivery, managing sprint execution, and developing team skills.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Vanta, you will lead platform engineering teams, set technical direction, manage infrastructure projects, and establish strong engineering culture.

Lead and grow a team focused on developer experience and internal platforms to improve engineering productivity. Define strategy, own CI/CD/build pipelines, tooling, local dev environments, observability, and automation. Partner across engineering, infra, security, SRE, product, and data to reduce friction, create golden paths, measure impact with delivery and reliability metrics, and drive adoption of AI-assisted developer workflows.

Lead a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps team supporting production SaaS environments across Azure and AWS. Own availability, observability, automation, incident response, on-call operations, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements. Manage employees and contractors, coordinate Sev1 and Sev2 incidents, improve monitoring and deployment practices, report operational health, and expand support for FedRAMP High and other regulated environments.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Leads a full-stack engineering team building AI-powered products and workflows for go-to-market functions. Responsibilities include engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, hiring, performance management, cross-functional discovery, prototyping, production delivery, and measurement. The role owns integrations across Salesforce, data platforms, product systems, and AI services while delivering measurable improvements in revenue, conversion, productivity, or quality.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team across full-stack, data engineering, and BI. Own people management, technical direction (C#/.NET, SQL, Vue 3, Power BI), data pipeline reliability, roadmap delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices to improve velocity, quality, and health outcomes.