Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.

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.

Leads and mentors a cross-functional software engineering team, managing career development, performance, and resource allocation. Owns delivery of operating system features, including timelines, risks, and dependencies. Serves as a technical liaison for customers and stakeholders, translating operational capabilities into software requirements. Interprets aerospace and safety-critical standards into actionable engineering work while ensuring compliant, secure delivery.

Leads and develops software engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and design to deliver secure, scalable, reliable features; guides architecture and engineering best practices; improves processes, velocity, and execution; and translates customer and business needs into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on leadership in a high-growth startup environment and ownership of engineering culture, performance, reliability, and talent development.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead a cross-functional backend and iOS engineering squad to grow paid subscribers by building and maintaining app store and Stripe integrations, prioritize platform stability, drive growth experiments, manage delivery and tech debt, and coach engineers through close partnership with Product and Design.

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Leads IT engineering strategy, teams, and delivery across infrastructure, cloud, networking, compliance, and client implementations. Oversees enterprise and hybrid-cloud solutions, automation, monitoring, DevOps, security compliance, and continuous improvement. Partners with executives, service delivery, sales, account management, and clients on roadmaps, technical solutions, proposals, and business outcomes. Ensures projects meet scope, budget, quality, security, and client requirements while driving scalable MSP services.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

Lead and grow an engineering team building airgapped, UDS-compatible, cloud-native software. Own delivery of scalable, secure products, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and coordinate with Product, Growth, and Delivery to meet customer and roadmap objectives.

Lead and mentor a team of full‑stack/backend engineers building integrations, identity verification, SSO, account opening, funding/ACH pipelines, and a public API platform. Drive architecture and delivery, champion quality and reliability, partner with Product and Implementation on roadmap and escalations, and remain hands‑on to guide technical decisions and ship production software.

Lead a globally distributed QA team to define QA strategy, governance, and audit-ready processes for regulated banking clients. Drive test automation, CI/release gating, regression coverage, incident response, and partner with Professional Services for UAT and integration validation while reporting quality KPIs.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead one or more engineering teams owning mission, execution, code quality, and morale. Partner with product managers on roadmaps, remove roadblocks, improve processes, coach and grow engineers, and drive innovation while delivering high-traffic full-stack or data applications at scale.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

Lead Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.