Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Leads and mentors a team of 5–10 engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, coding, code reviews, testing, security, and performance. The manager drives technical direction, builds scalable cloud-native systems, collaborates with Product and leadership, supports agile delivery, recruits engineering talent, and develops team members. The role requires experience with modern TypeScript-based technologies, microservices or event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AI-enabled software engineering.

Leads and develops a team of software engineers while balancing people management with technical leadership. Responsibilities include coaching, performance management, roadmap planning, architecture and code-quality guidance, hiring, staffing, risk management, incident response, stakeholder communication, and cross-team engineering initiatives. The manager partners with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable software and foster a collaborative, accountable culture.

Lead Stord’s SDET function by establishing test architecture, framework standards, CI-gated automation, and AI-assisted test generation. Build an API-first E2E testing framework spanning web UI, APIs, and Kafka eventing, with resilient handling of asynchronous workflows. Create coverage, regression, load, and performance testing infrastructure; partner with SRE on test environments; and hire, develop, and set the technical bar for the SDET team.

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.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

Leads engineering teams building and scaling Stripe’s financial products and platforms. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, shaping product strategy and technical roadmaps, collaborating cross-functionally, owning complex systems and processes, maintaining engineering standards, recruiting talent, and supporting career development. The role requires strong software development and engineering management experience, technical architecture judgment, product sense, problem-solving ability, and comfort managing ambiguity and multiple high-impact initiatives.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Leads the day-to-day management and delivery of internal and partner engineering teams. Responsibilities include assigning work, unblocking engineers, maintaining scoped tickets in Linear, coordinating shared workstreams, shaping technical direction with product and engineering teams, managing performance and growth, and supporting hiring and team structure. The role also champions spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering practices while managing distributed engineers across time zones.

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 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 the engineering team building Webflow’s code-native platform, including high-fidelity visual-to-code workflows and coding-agent integration. Sets technical and product direction, shapes architecture, owns developer experience, sequences platform and customer-facing work, and partners across product, design, and engineering. This player-coach role includes architecture reviews, prototyping, hands-on contributions, hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing technical culture.

Leads Root’s Telematics Technology engineering domain, overseeing telematics data platforms, feature stores, trip pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing experiences. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, partnering with Data Science, Pricing, and Underwriting, managing and developing engineering teams, recruiting, guiding distributed-system architecture, and improving reliability, observability, scalability, delivery processes, and production stability. The role also drives AI-tool adoption and may oversee production machine-learning systems.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead and develop the AgentControl Evaluations engineering team while providing technical leadership for offline evaluations, playgrounds, LLM-as-judges, and annotated datasets. Partner with Product and Design on roadmap planning, own feature delivery, improve reliability and incident response, coordinate shared infrastructure, communicate progress and risks, foster collaborative team norms, and participate in hiring and career development.

Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team building cloud-connected embedded and IoT systems for transit vehicles. Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions spanning edge devices, communication layers, cloud services, and real-time data systems. Provide technical mentorship, guide architecture and execution, improve testing and observability, support remote deployment and hardware development, and foster an inclusive, growth-oriented team culture.

Leads ABB’s U.S. Electrification Services Application Engineering organization supporting commercial operations and sales. Responsibilities include developing technical teams, engaging customers, conducting site assessments, creating solutions, overseeing statements of work and job cost estimates, improving proposal processes, managing KPIs, standardizing engineering practices, and implementing digital tools, automation, and technical training to improve quality, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.

Lead and develop mobile engineering teams building Ford’s customer-facing app. Provide technical direction across product development and production, review architectures and designs, establish engineering standards for documentation, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, evaluate mobile technologies, and partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

Leads a backend platform engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, delivery, roadmap planning, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Builds reusable services, APIs, tools, and self-service capabilities supporting multiple products. Drives scalability, reliability, developer experience, observability, security, automation, incident response, capacity planning, and operational excellence while contributing to technical decisions and troubleshooting.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

Manage and grow a product engineering team at a remote cloud cost-management software company. Lead prioritization, delivery, quality standards, recruiting, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and leadership. Help engineers ship customer-focused features spanning spend management, interfaces, data pipelines, visualizations, and application performance. Coach engineers, remove blockers, promote ownership, and guide tradeoffs between velocity and quality.

Lead and grow a data engineering team responsible for data models, ETL pipelines, synchronization, analytics, integrations, and APIs. Establish the team’s roadmap, architecture, data quality standards, SLOs, and operational practices. Hire and develop engineers, guide technical decisions, and collaborate with product and Salesforce leaders to build a reliable data platform supporting enterprise integrations and AI agents.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.