Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead two engineering groups building shared foundational services (identity, subscription). Drive technical strategy, architecture, observability, CI/CD, and DORA metrics. Manage people, hiring, cross-team collaboration, product partnerships, and mentor engineers while occasionally prototyping and contributing to code and technical planning.

Manage and develop an engineering team while owning delivery, hiring, performance, technical judgment, and escalation response. Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, use coding agents effectively, improve engineering processes, and help engineers build stronger skills in scoping, estimation, decision-making, and ownership. Balance roadmap priorities with customer commitments and turn recurring issues into lasting product improvements across HumanSignal’s AI data and annotation platforms.

Leads platform engineering and FinOps teams responsible for CI/CD, developer tooling, container orchestration, observability, cloud cost governance, and software procurement. Oversees AWS usage optimization, automation, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, compliance, and platform modernization across a hybrid cloud environment. Partners with infrastructure and cloud operations teams, defines the platform roadmap, and mentors platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and FinOps analysts.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team while staying hands-on: design and build Python/FastAPI services with Temporal and Postgres, own roadmap and delivery, set SLIs/SLOs, drive observability and reliability, run engineering rituals, hire and coach engineers, and improve quality with DevOps and AI tooling.

Leads a large engineering team responsible for scalable customer runtime infrastructure supporting Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites. Oversees technical strategy, architecture, project delivery, modernization, operational reliability, mentoring, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration. Guides cloud infrastructure transformation, reviews critical code, manages multiple priorities, and develops a high-performance engineering culture across global teams.

Lead two engineering teams of 8–10 engineers, owning delivery, quality, capacity planning, sprint execution, OKRs, hiring, retention, and professional development. Establish scalable engineering processes, quality gates, testing standards, observability, and continuous improvement practices. Partner with Product Managers on roadmap execution while providing technical guidance on architecture, APIs, backend systems, infrastructure, and frontend platforms.

Leads secure, reliable IT infrastructure supporting distributed clinical research sites and remote employees. Manages enterprise networking, Azure and Microsoft 365 services, endpoint platforms, automation, AI-enabled operations, vendors, budgets, and technology projects. Oversees site deployments, security and compliance initiatives, service delivery, and operational improvements while recruiting, coaching, and developing technical teams.

Leads a distributed SRE team responsible for cloud-service reliability, scalability, incident response, observability, automation, release engineering, and operational maturity. Develops SRE strategy, manages priorities and delivery, improves CI/CD and infrastructure practices, supports security and compliance controls, oversees vendor relationships, and communicates reliability risks and roadmaps to technical and executive stakeholders. The role requires strong leadership and technical knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and DevOps practices.

Leads a remote-first team of SDETs responsible for quality strategy, test automation, CI stability, defect prevention, release readiness, and reliability across SaaS and customer-managed products. Establishes quality metrics, optimizes testing pipelines, performs failure and root-cause analysis, partners with product and engineering leaders, and mentors test engineers developing AI-enabled and agentic workflows. The role may include on-call or off-hours responsibilities.

Leads and mentors an engineering team, overseeing technical decisions, architecture, delivery, quality, testing, CI/CD, support escalations, and continuous improvement. Partners with product, design, customer success, and engineering leadership to deliver roadmap commitments. Manages prioritization, KPIs, delivery health, hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Lead and grow engineering teams building AI-powered automation (especially LLM/Agentic AI) for compliance. Drive architecture, scalable multi-tenant systems, cloud-based engineering, cross-functional roadmaps, hiring, code quality, incident response, and delivery of high-impact AI/ML products.

Leads a software engineering team while remaining hands-on technically. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineers, guiding architecture and technical discussions, partnering with product and UX, building interfaces and backend systems, and improving application scalability, stability, security, and efficiency. The manager will influence technical strategy, evolve roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and support cloud-based distributed systems.

Leads and mentors software engineers while owning technical decisions, team priorities, delivery, quality, and career development. Partners with product, design, customer success, and DevOps to ship reliable features, resolve production issues, improve CI/CD and testing, and optimize engineering KPIs such as cycle time, WIP, and velocity. The role also supports hiring, performance management, planning, and process improvement in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery for core platform domains (authentication, tenancy, APIs, messaging, tooling). Build and coach platform engineering teams, drive cross-team adoption, ensure reliability, observability, security, and cloud cost efficiency for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design, ship, and support web-based features. Balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and system improvements; perform hands-on code review and triage; collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support; hire, coach, and mentor engineers; and establish processes for iterative, high-quality delivery that meet customer needs and SLAs.

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.

The Senior Manager of Infrastructure Engineering will lead the infrastructure team, design cloud environments, manage Kubernetes, and drive initiatives in classified and unclassified settings.

Lead and grow two Merchants engineering teams (Core and Growth). Own technical direction, architecture (billing, checkout, delivery promise), hiring, roadmap, sprint health, and cross-functional partnerships to deliver reliable merchant-facing product features.

The Engineering Manager will drive the growth of the engineering team, overseeing product development, architectural decisions, and integration of emerging technologies in web3.

Lead the Engineering team responsible for the API, focusing on platform strategy, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development and API performance.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Vanta, you will lead platform engineering teams, set technical direction, manage infrastructure projects, and establish strong engineering culture.

Lead and grow a team focused on developer experience and internal platforms to improve engineering productivity. Define strategy, own CI/CD/build pipelines, tooling, local dev environments, observability, and automation. Partner across engineering, infra, security, SRE, product, and data to reduce friction, create golden paths, measure impact with delivery and reliability metrics, and drive adoption of AI-assisted developer workflows.

Lead a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps team supporting production SaaS environments across Azure and AWS. Own availability, observability, automation, incident response, on-call operations, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements. Manage employees and contractors, coordinate Sev1 and Sev2 incidents, improve monitoring and deployment practices, report operational health, and expand support for FedRAMP High and other regulated environments.