Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Leads Kent’s Process Safety Engineering team, serving as a technical subject matter expert across onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. Responsibilities include managing engineers, overseeing quality and regulatory compliance, guiding risk assessments and consequence analyses, developing proposals and budgets, supporting business development, mentoring staff, recruiting, and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering work. The role requires client engagement, commercial awareness, professional engineering licensure, and expertise in process safety methodologies, industry standards, and specialized software.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Leads GDIT’s digital engineering strategy, delivery, and growth across data platforms, cloud, applications, automation, and AI-enabled systems. Oversees engineering teams, architecture standards, DevSecOps practices, capability development, delivery governance, technical escalations, and talent development. Serves as a technical solution lead for customer engagements, captures, proposals, and enterprise-scale architectures while building reusable technical assets and evaluating emerging technologies.

Leads and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead the automation strategy for a live AAA mobile game, building the team, frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates needed for frequent releases. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring, designing automated UI/API/mobile tests, integrating testing into CI/CD, establishing metrics and observability, providing hands-on technical leadership, and partnering across Engineering, QA, Product, Live Operations, and external teams to improve release quality.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Leads Prosci’s IT engineering team and owns delivery and production operations across Azure, Microsoft 365, enterprise AI, security controls, data infrastructure, and a customer-facing enrollment platform. The role manages engineers, vendors, cloud operations, incident response, capacity, disaster recovery, compliance, change control, and the transition of outsourced work in-house. It also establishes team processes, on-call operations, delivery cadence, and partnerships with enterprise systems, security, and service desk teams.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying computer vision and AI models on edge devices. Provide hands-on technical leadership for embedded systems, low-latency processing, and resource-constrained hardware. Partner with Product, Hardware, and Full-stack teams to deliver products from concept through mass production, shape technical roadmaps, and hire and develop engineering talent.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

Leads a 10–20-person Network Engineering team responsible for managed Wi-Fi network configuration, deployment, validation, quality, resource planning, and customer escalations. The role combines people leadership with approximately 20% hands-on network engineering, including design, installation, turn-up, and validation. It also drives process improvements, automation, documentation, training, budgeting, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery performance. Approximately 10% travel is required across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Leads a 10–20-person Network Engineering team responsible for post-sales managed Wi-Fi configuration, deployment, installation, and validation. Balances staffing, schedules, quality, customer requirements, productivity, and financial objectives while contributing approximately 20% hands-on engineering work. Drives process improvements, automation, training, documentation, escalation resolution, and cross-functional implementation efforts. The role requires extensive IP networking expertise, leadership experience, vendor platform knowledge, and approximately 10% travel across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Leads the Developer Platform and Experience engineering team supporting PingOne multi-tenant SaaS. Owns CI/CD pipelines, build systems, self-service developer tooling, platform modernization, operational reliability, and AI-enabled engineering automation. Provides architectural oversight, drives observability and incident response practices, and manages a globally distributed team of senior and staff engineers while improving developer productivity and platform adoption.

Leads and develops a team of 4–6 software engineers building and operating React Native mobile applications, backend services, and administration platforms. Responsibilities include people management, architecture, code quality, technical debt reduction, delivery planning, cross-team collaboration, infrastructure and security coordination, engineering metrics, and rotating on-call support. The role remains technically engaged through design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, and architectural guidance.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads electrical engineering and design coordination for data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects, including new construction, retrofits, expansions, and system upgrades. Reviews electrical designs, calculations, studies, equipment submittals, and technical documentation; coordinates multidisciplinary teams; supports permitting, construction, commissioning, and closeout; manages quality, budgets, schedules, and client relationships; and mentors engineering staff.

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

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.