Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for CUDA Math Libraries platform expansion and readiness. Own integration, qualification, compliance, validation, performance testing, defect triage, and technical roadmaps across specialized platforms. Collaborate with library, DevOps, QA, compiler, CUDA, release, and platform teams. The role requires hands-on high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, performance optimization, and software engineering leadership.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions for CMS Hospital Quality Reporting systems. Manages hiring, performance, coaching, team development, resource planning, engineering standards, architectural decisions, code reviews, and delivery processes. Collaborates with Product Managers to align engineering work with product goals while fostering technical excellence, continuous improvement, and an inclusive remote-first culture.

Leads engineering for Buffer’s Growth area across acquisition, activation, and retention. Coaches engineers, shapes priorities with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, guides technical decisions, connects customer insights to measurement, supports AI-enabled development, and contributes to hiring and engineering practices. The role requires strong technical judgment, product-growth understanding, clear communication, and experience helping engineers develop in a distributed environment.

Manages EMI engineering and high-power EMI/EMC testing for naval and maritime power systems. Responsibilities include developing test plans and procedures, executing tests, managing lab resources and ISO 17025 compliance, coordinating technical teams, overseeing project schedules and risks, reporting results, and supporting business development. The role requires extensive experience with DoD EMI standards, energy storage and power conversion equipment, technical leadership, and customer liaison responsibilities.

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.

Leads a team of 10–15 software engineers responsible for Atlassian Government Cloud release infrastructure and processes. Owns release planning, readiness, go/no-go decisions, cutover, verification, rollback, incident escalation, and compliance. Defines a multi-quarter roadmap covering trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, automated gates, and rollback automation. Partners across engineering, product, QA, SRE, security, and compliance while coaching team members and improving release reliability.

Lead Honeydew’s Operations Experience engineering team, owning people management, planning, delivery, technical quality, and cross-functional execution. Manage engineers, a tech lead, and contractors through regular feedback, growth planning, agile ceremonies, and performance management. Improve delivery metrics, surface risks and tradeoffs, collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership, and develop the team’s long-term structure, capacity, and hiring plan.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

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.

Lead the Admin Experience backend engineering team, setting technical direction for user access, account hierarchies, administration workflows, APIs, data models, and authorization. Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while partnering with Product and adjacent teams on roadmap planning. Balance feature delivery with production support, reliability, testing, observability, documentation, and secure operational practices for customer-facing SaaS services.

Leads Infrastructure teams responsible for CI/CD, developer platforms, Kubernetes, and AWS compute. Manages engineers, supports senior and staff-level technical leadership, drives platform consolidation and migrations, improves reliability and operational efficiency, coordinates cluster upgrades, and oversees PCI DSS compliance. The role treats engineers as platform customers by improving golden paths, self-service tooling, documentation, and AI-assisted workflows.

Lead two or more software engineering teams building and operating TopstepX, a real-time trading platform. Responsibilities include coaching and developing engineers, hiring and capacity planning, prioritizing delivery amid changing needs, and ensuring system availability, performance, quality, and resilience. The role requires leadership of production systems, incident response, observability, reliability investments, and collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead delivery of US network infrastructure initiatives while maintaining hands-on technical involvement. Set engineering and operational standards, review designs, manage incidents, drive cross-team decisions, and build automation, observability, reliability, provisioning, and CI/CD practices. Coordinate across engineering and international teams, turn operational issues into prioritized backlogs, and ensure tools, workflows, documentation, and runbooks are adopted. Help establish a new network infrastructure organization and eventually scale its team and scope.

Lead and grow an engineering team building decentralized finance products. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing roadmaps and workflows, overseeing React and Solidity development, maintaining architecture and code quality, improving development and deployment processes, managing quality assurance and security, monitoring systems, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

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.

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.