Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads and grows an engineering team building financial and supply chain platforms, including agentic workflow automation, reporting, forecasting, tax, compliance, and operational systems. Sets technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and delivery practices while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations. Ensures reliability, security, scalability, testing, observability, and operational excellence, while developing engineers, future leaders, and a healthy engineering culture.

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.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining NinjaOne SaaS products. Provides technical direction, participates in architecture, code reviews, integrations, and deployments, and partners with product, platform, and project management teams. Oversees engineering operations, team mentoring, software quality, continuous improvement, and successful product delivery across UI, mobile, server, and agent systems.

Leads a cloud-focused Managed Services Engineering team responsible for service delivery, operational performance, resource allocation, customer satisfaction, and financial outcomes. Oversees cloud and hybrid infrastructure services, automation, observability, security, SLAs, governance, on-call coverage, and continuous improvement for government customers. Develops team capabilities, drives operational resilience and service reliability, and serves as product owner for assigned managed services offerings.

Lead and mentor a remote team of 3–6 engineers building and operating CrowdStrike’s internal cloud management platform. Provide technical guidance, code review oversight, architectural input, roadmap execution, hiring support, and professional development. The role involves developing Go and TypeScript APIs and UIs, maintaining highly available cloud infrastructure, collaborating with leadership, and delivering reliable software at scale.

Leads and grows the engineering team, oversees customer implementations and product delivery, manages stakeholders, balances customization with core product development, and establishes engineering quality and reliability practices. The role also remains hands-on with TypeScript and Node.js coding, code reviews, debugging, and production support. Experience with AI products, healthcare workflows, HIPAA, EHR integrations, and early-stage startups is valuable.

Lead the Data Streaming engineering sub-team responsible for reliable, scalable ingestion, normalization, and routing of cybersecurity telemetry. Manage and grow a 6–7 engineer team, establish SLOs and on-call processes, maintain schemas and data contracts, improve pipeline reliability and scalability, and collaborate with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory teams. The role requires hands-on expertise with streaming architectures, cloud-native operations, data quality, and pipeline observability.

Lead a 6–7 person engineering team responsible for building, shipping, and maintaining production-grade integrations with security platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Own the integration product roadmap, API contracts, reliability, compatibility, certification pipeline, and upstream change management. Partner with customer success, security research, and partnerships teams while hiring and developing engineers. The role requires hands-on technical expertise in Go or Python, enterprise authentication, event-driven architectures, AWS serverless services, and security data normalization.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions. Manages hiring, performance, team development, architecture, code reviews, resource planning, engineering standards, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with product managers to align engineering work with product goals and contributes to project delivery, technical decisions, and an inclusive remote-first team culture supporting healthcare technology systems.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

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 the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

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.

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.