Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Lead and mentor a software engineering team, provide technical guidance, drive architecture and engineering excellence, manage sprint execution, collaborate on product roadmaps, ensure scalable and reliable systems, foster continuous improvement, and support recruiting and onboarding. The role requires balancing technical strategy with business impact while developing high-performing engineers.

Leads LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, overseeing people management, AWS infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CockroachDB, incident response, reliability, disaster recovery, and compliance infrastructure. Owns operational health and a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program while guiding technical priorities, automation, migrations, AI-assisted engineering practices, cross-team collaboration, hiring, and team development.

Leads Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, combining people leadership with technical strategy across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and efficiency. The manager will develop engineers, establish ownership, improve operational health, lead modernization and disaster-recovery initiatives, build automation and self-service infrastructure, and coordinate with engineering and security leaders. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least two years managing software or infrastructure engineers.

Develops, industrializes, and launches robotic automation for manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics operations. Responsibilities include robotic cell design, supplier and integrator management, controls and vision integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, safety validation, production ramp-up, and operational handoff. Coordinates cross-functional teams while managing project schedules, costs, risks, acceptance criteria, training, maintenance requirements, and performance validation.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.

Leads a managed services engineering team supporting mainframe environments. Oversees customer satisfaction, service-level agreement delivery, staffing, resource allocation, operational processes, continuous improvement, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Serves as product owner for assigned services, manages performance and development, coordinates strategic technology planning, and supports customer reviews and escalations. Requires mainframe expertise, consulting leadership, ITIL knowledge, process improvement skills, and the ability to manage complex customer and business priorities.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for expanding game discovery and rewards across Fetch’s mobile and backend experiences. Own roadmap delivery, translate product goals into technical plans, guide architecture and code quality, manage dependencies, and ensure scalable, reliable, observable systems. Partner cross-functionally, communicate risks and tradeoffs, improve team processes, and support engineers in using AI-assisted development tools.

Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary systems engineering team developing RF Electronic Warfare systems. Oversee requirements, architecture, integration, verification, cost/schedule, and technical strategy. Drive proposals, trade studies, performance modeling, and collaboration across engineering, program management, and customers to deliver mission-critical airborne, maritime, and ground systems.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for customer-facing products, payments, onboarding, internal tools, and production systems. Set technical direction, guide architecture, manage reliability and incident response, oversee delivery planning, and partner with Product, Design, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, capacity planning, operational excellence, and accountability for system quality, availability, performance, and delivery outcomes.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Leads a team responsible for enterprise platform engineering across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, data platforms, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Owns reliability, security, scalability, lifecycle management, automation, governance, incident escalation, vendor coordination, and infrastructure modernization across on-premises and AWS/Azure environments. Requires strong distributed systems expertise, operational discipline, and leadership in a regulated enterprise setting.

Lead a cross-functional advertising engineering squad of backend and iOS engineers. Partner with Product and Design to discover, prioritize, and deliver consumer-facing ad experiences through experimentation. Manage backlog health, technical debt, delivery quality, and team ceremonies while coaching engineers and fostering an empowered, high-trust team. Support scalable, maintainable mobile applications and navigate privacy, consent, and advertising requirements.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

Leads cloud and data center network engineering and operations teams, overseeing delivery, budgets, architecture, technical strategy, stakeholder engagement, and operational improvement. Designs resilient network solutions using Cisco, Palo Alto, cloud networking, and automation technologies. Mentors managers and engineers, resolves escalated issues, supports proposals and business growth, and ensures technology decisions align with customer requirements, performance goals, and budgets.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and development of Cadence’s AI-powered Clinical Intelligence platform. Build reliable clinical decision-support and medication recommendation systems using patient data, clinical protocols, safety rules, and clinician oversight. Hire, mentor, and grow AI, backend, and full-stack engineers while establishing engineering standards, testing, observability, validation, and regulatory-readiness practices. Partner with clinical, product, design, and AI stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable production systems.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

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.

Lead engineering ownership of an acquired consumer VPN product from due diligence through integration, stabilization, and growth. Manage and coach engineers while remaining hands-on with Kotlin, Swift, Go, architecture, operations, security, and production incidents. Establish testing, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and compliance practices; partner with product, corporate development, marketing, and operations; and create a repeatable engineering playbook for future acquisitions.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.