Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

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.

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.

The Digital Control Systems Engineering Manager will lead a team in designing and integrating Grid Automation projects, ensuring high-quality engineering solutions and project delivery while managing resources and collaborating with stakeholders.

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.

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.

Leads a distributed frontend engineering team responsible for Firefox Desktop user interface improvements. The manager drives technical decisions, project delivery, quality, monitoring, maintainability, engineering processes, hiring, mentoring, feedback, and team development. They collaborate with Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science, manage risks and trade-offs, communicate with senior leadership, and deliver user-facing experiences across concurrent initiatives.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing code and providing technical direction. Owns agile rituals, production feature delivery, technical architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product and design teams, supports enterprise customers, and drives adoption of AI throughout software development. The role focuses on healthcare software, patient data collection, regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and integrations using HL7 and FHIR.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. Hire and develop engineers, drive technical vision, participate in product strategy, and contribute to cross-engineering initiatives. Ensure operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Lead and grow a backend/infrastructure engineering team building the Experimentation product. Partner with PM and Design to plan and deliver features, collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, drive incident response and operational excellence, and participate in hiring and career development for engineers.

Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.

Leads a platform engineering team responsible for foundational services supporting Alteryx products. Manages hiring, coaching, performance, career development, delivery, quality, operational readiness, and team culture. Translates strategy into priorities and execution plans, manages risks and dependencies, provides technical guidance on scalable backend and platform systems, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver reliable capabilities.

Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.

Leads a full-stack engineering team developing customer-facing SaaS products across web, mobile, backend, and AI systems. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, delivery planning, product health, and measurable customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define and ship products, uses production data to guide priorities, and hires, develops, and manages engineering talent.