Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead execution and day-to-day operations for a globally distributed engineering team (~10 engineers). Own sprint commitments, release cycles, incident management/on-call, asynchronous processes, and delivery metrics (DORA). Champion AI-augmented development, mentor engineers, and balance planned roadmap work with reactive bug triage to maintain high velocity and uptime.

Lead and develop a remote team of Python engineers, ensuring their growth and satisfaction while driving high-quality software delivery.

As the Engineering Manager for Scribe's Platform team, you will lead the backend team, define technical strategy, collaborate on product outcomes, and foster engineering culture while ensuring reliability and compliance.

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 a hands-on engineering team to improve kernel-centric reliability of large AI compute clusters. Own technical vision, build diagnostic and debug tooling, collaborate with SW and HW teams to reduce downtime, speed failure analysis, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable production systems.

As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own UI architecture, mentor team members, manage technical initiatives, and drive AI-powered feature development.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to ship features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, coach engineers, and manage project progress.

Lead a Product Engineering squad (8–15 engineers), prioritize people development, hiring, process, and predictable delivery. Drive AI-native practices, technical credibility, customer-focused outcomes, testing/validation, and cross-functional partnerships while owning team budget and headcount.

Lead a squad end-to-end to deliver customer value: set direction, drive execution, ensure scalable and secure architectures, stay close to technical work, coach and grow engineers, hire and manage performance, and apply AI-native practices to accelerate delivery.

Leads an autonomous team of 8–10 engineers developing payment acceptance and value-added services such as network tokens, account updater, 3DS, and account validation. Oversees AI-augmented software delivery, architecture, hiring, coaching, roadmap collaboration, reliability, security, incident response, testing, observability, and compliance. Partners cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade financial products and participates in on-call rotations.

Manage engineering projects and QA for a small, remote engineering team: track work, run bug pipeline, write and automate tests (Capybara when useful), coordinate engineers with product and internal stakeholders, and report status to leadership while using AI to streamline repetitive testing tasks.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Leads the Platform Development and browser engineering teams, overseeing architecture, development, delivery, optimization, and operational excellence for scalable enterprise software. Maintains hands-on technical involvement while building high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, driving AI enablement, improving engineering practices, and executing the product roadmap. Partners with Product, Architecture, Data, and AI teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant platform capabilities and communicates technical strategy and progress to executive stakeholders.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

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 two engineering squads building Breezeway's property operations product. Hire, coach, and grow engineers; own planning, delivery, and cross-squad coordination; set technical direction, architecture guidance, and engineering quality; partner with Product and Design to translate roadmap into executed work.

The Mobile Engineering Manager will lead a team of Android and iOS engineers, manage app feature development, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure project delivery in wearable technology.

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 engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for AWS/Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, observability, incident response, and FinOps. Set technical direction for IaC, pipelines, and service management while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Security and participating in on-call rotation.

Lead and manage SRE/DevOps teams to drive reliability roadmaps, oversee incident management, ensure cloud-native infrastructure scalability, security, and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to align reliability with business goals.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

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 an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

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.