Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Leads a 15+ person embedded software engineering team supporting complex avionics systems. Responsibilities include people management, technical and project leadership, development planning, process compliance, third-party engineering coordination, resource forecasting, hiring, performance management, customer engagement, and software lifecycle oversight from business development through product end of life.

Leads a 10–15-person engineering team responsible for systems engineering tools, digital thread integration, MBSE, requirements and configuration management, lifecycle tools, and development assurance. Defines processes aligned with ARP4754, develops cross-domain tool solutions, supports AI integration, administers ALM tools, creates training, drives organizational change, and partners across engineering functions to implement digital engineering capabilities.

Leads GitLab’s Dedicated Infrastructure team, combining technical leadership and people management. Responsibilities include guiding architecture, maintaining high availability and security, automating provisioning and operations, improving self-service platforms, managing incidents, recruiting and developing team members, using AI to improve productivity, and prioritizing work through data and risk analysis. The role requires expertise in distributed services, fleet management, Terraform, AWS, high-availability operations, remote team leadership, and complex project delivery.

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Lead and develop a controls team to design, program, integrate, commission, and maintain PLC, HMI/SCADA, and industrial control systems. Oversee automated piping and process systems, troubleshoot electrical/instrumentation/network issues, manage projects, contractors, and ensure compliance with NFPA, UL, OSHA and safety standards while improving reliability and performance.

Leads a 22–26-person engineering team spanning modeling and simulation, GNC, software, and AI. Owns high-fidelity simulations, system-of-systems analysis, verification and validation, automation, Monte Carlo campaigns, and AI-enabled efficiency initiatives for strategic missile-defense programs. Provides technical leadership, people management, program execution, stakeholder communication, and engineering process improvement. The role is fully onsite in Chandler, Arizona, requires an active Secret clearance, and includes up to 10% travel.

Leads BMS engineering and delivery across data center projects. Responsibilities include design reviews, BMS standards development, platform coordination, commissioning support, operational analysis, construction administration, issue resolution, reporting, and team leadership. The role collaborates with construction, procurement, commissioning, design, operations, and BMS partners to deliver compliant, high-quality systems and improve project execution. Requires 25% travel.

Lead Headway’s Infrastructure team, owning AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM platform capabilities, databases, observability, reliability, and incident response. Hire and develop engineers, establish self-service platform practices, reduce incident blast radius, define production readiness for AI workloads, and partner with Security and product engineering teams. The role combines technical leadership, people management, platform strategy, design reviews, and hands-on incident response.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Leads a manufacturing engineering organization supporting growth, new product development, product transfers, and process scale-up across multiple sites. Responsibilities include building engineering teams, managing budgets and resources, ensuring regulatory and quality compliance, resolving cross-functional production issues, and driving Lean, 5S, innovation, process improvements, maintenance programs, and cost savings. Develops long-term strategic roadmaps covering projects, technology, processes, and capital investments.

Leads a multi-site manufacturing engineering organization supporting growth, product development, and product transfers. Builds and mentors engineering teams, aligns projects and resources with business priorities, ensures regulatory and process compliance, resolves cross-functional production issues, and drives Lean, 5S, innovation, and operational excellence. Develops long-term strategic roadmaps, manages budgets and capital investments, and identifies process improvement and cost-saving opportunities in regulated medical device manufacturing.

Leads a team of manufacturing engineers producing electronics and avionics flight hardware. Designs manufacturing processes, procedures, and layouts; drives process improvements; investigates quality deficiencies and corrective actions; advises engineering on manufacturability; and ensures regulatory compliance. The role is fully onsite in Chandler, Arizona, requires U.S. citizenship and a Secret clearance, and involves 10% travel.

Lead cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver scalable enterprise software and products. Own engagement relationships, product roadmaps, architecture (APIs, microservices), CI/CD and quality practices, project planning, and mentoring of junior staff to drive delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead Headway’s Web Platform team of five frontend engineers. Own frontend strategy, design systems, web architecture, accessibility, performance, testing, and agentic UI workflows. Hire and develop engineers, manage performance, align with Design and product teams, define roadmaps and metrics, and advocate for frontend standards company-wide. Remain hands-on with code and AI tools while evolving shared frameworks, tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks.

Leads Site Reliability Engineering teams responsible for reliability, availability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, telemetry, security, and compliance for Microsoft Substrate services in regulated environments. Establishes SLOs and SLIs, drives operational excellence, participates in on-call rotations, leads post-incident improvements, develops senior engineers, and influences cross-organizational engineering strategy.

Lead a hands-on engineering team building and shipping features for a modern trucking transportation management system. Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, contribute to Ruby on Rails and React development, mentor engineers, maintain engineering quality, understand customer workflows, and deliver improvements quickly in a fully remote environment.

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.

Manages semiconductor products from development planning through production release, ensuring manufacturability, reliability, quality, specification compliance, and sustaining support. Coordinates with design, manufacturing, testing, quality, reliability, process, and marketing teams. Develops long-term cost and profit plans and manages personnel to support efficient operations.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Leads and develops a software engineering team responsible for high-availability trading platform systems. Oversees hiring, coaching, team operations, delivery, reliability, incident response, on-call health, observability, and technical investment. Partners with Product, Engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to guide architecture, manage trade-offs, and deliver resilient backend and distributed systems. The role requires strong people leadership, production operations experience, and technical credibility with .NET/C#, AWS, containers, and orchestration.

Lead a senior engineering team building Fingerprint’s Automation Intelligence product from beta through commercial launch. Own product readiness, service reliability, detection accuracy, testing, rollout quality, API contracts, observability, team growth, and AI-native engineering practices. Partner with product, research, and customer-facing teams while establishing autonomous ownership, quality metrics, and contract-first APIs for detecting and classifying bots, AI agents, and other automation.

Leads and develops an Applications Engineering team responsible for accurate, competitive, and timely technical solutions. Oversees product selection, sizing, configuration, quotations, customer specifications, technical proposals, and application support. Partners with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations to manage risks and ensure executable solutions. Establishes standards, monitors performance, improves processes, supports new product development, develops training, and contributes to budgeting, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction.

Lead the Methods and Insights engineering teams, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery, operational health, architecture, and developer experience. Partner with product leaders and founders to sequence work, manage risk, improve engineering processes, and ship reliable systems. Build AI-agent development practices, shared components, CI gates, conventions, and harnesses that help engineers move quickly while maintaining quality.

Leads a global Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across Azure-based SaaS platforms. Establishes SRE standards, develops team capabilities, improves automation and observability, leads incident and disaster recovery efforts, and partners cross-functionally on platform resilience, governance, capacity, and cloud optimization. Requires strong technical leadership, experience with large-scale SaaS environments, and expertise in reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and operational maturity.