Top Remote Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads a full-stack engineering growth pod, owning its roadmap, delivery quality, team culture, hiring and career development. The manager remains hands-on by writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, coaching engineers, and participating in technical decisions. The team rapidly experiments with product experiences, using data-driven insights to help people discover and understand Atticus services. The role partners closely with product, design, and data science while operating in an ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment.

Leads enterprise software development, platform integrations, custom scripts, and cloud architecture. Manages the software development lifecycle from requirements through deployment, collaborates with stakeholders, mentors engineers, and directly contributes to frontend, backend, and cloud solutions. Oversees third-party enterprise tools, databases, APIs, serverless systems, QA coordination, technical processes, and cross-departmental engineering initiatives.

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 LaunchDarkly’s Cloud Engineering team, overseeing people management, AWS infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CockroachDB, incident response, reliability, disaster recovery, and compliance infrastructure. Owns operational health and a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program while guiding technical priorities, automation, migrations, AI-assisted engineering practices, cross-team collaboration, hiring, and team development.

Leads Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, combining people leadership with technical strategy across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and efficiency. The manager will develop engineers, establish ownership, improve operational health, lead modernization and disaster-recovery initiatives, build automation and self-service infrastructure, and coordinate with engineering and security leaders. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least two years managing software or infrastructure engineers.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.

Leads a managed services engineering team supporting mainframe environments. Oversees customer satisfaction, service-level agreement delivery, staffing, resource allocation, operational processes, continuous improvement, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Serves as product owner for assigned services, manages performance and development, coordinates strategic technology planning, and supports customer reviews and escalations. Requires mainframe expertise, consulting leadership, ITIL knowledge, process improvement skills, and the ability to manage complex customer and business priorities.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for expanding game discovery and rewards across Fetch’s mobile and backend experiences. Own roadmap delivery, translate product goals into technical plans, guide architecture and code quality, manage dependencies, and ensure scalable, reliable, observable systems. Partner cross-functionally, communicate risks and tradeoffs, improve team processes, and support engineers in using AI-assisted development tools.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Manage and mentor a backend engineering team while remaining hands-on with technical design and problem solving. Set backend architecture, service strategy, roadmaps, and engineering standards for scalable, secure systems. Partner with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to deliver reliable customer-facing software, deploy models, improve platform tooling, and support incident response. Recruit engineers, guide team development, and foster ownership and continuous improvement.

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.

Leads software engineering teams and initiatives, overseeing resource planning, development processes, software quality, delivery accountability, hiring, performance management, and talent development. Establishes engineering standards, monitors KPIs, manages risks and dependencies, and ensures predictable delivery across Agile software programs. The role requires full-stack web development leadership, AWS and modern application technology expertise, healthcare workflow and HL7 experience, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Lead and develop an endpoint engineering team managing Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. Oversee device configuration, Intune and Configuration Manager operations, patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance reporting, and Tier III incident response. Partner with cybersecurity, service desk, DEX, and infrastructure to improve endpoint reliability, security, and user experience while driving modernization, automation, and audit-ready operational controls in a regulated banking environment.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for customer-facing products, payments, onboarding, internal tools, and production systems. Set technical direction, guide architecture, manage reliability and incident response, oversee delivery planning, and partner with Product, Design, QA, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. The role includes hiring, coaching, performance management, capacity planning, operational excellence, and accountability for system quality, availability, performance, and delivery outcomes.

Leads two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for platform foundations, navigation, search, and resource organization. Oversees hiring, team development, technical direction, delivery, customer discovery, roadmap prioritization, and operational excellence. Partners with Product and Design, drives AI and automation adoption, maintains engineering standards, participates in management on-call, and improves productivity, reliability, accessibility, and customer outcomes across Grafana’s open-source and cloud products.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Leads software engineering teams through people management, workforce and capacity planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and sustainable delivery practices. Partners with technical, architecture, product, project, and HR leaders while maintaining clear leadership boundaries. The role develops engineers and managers, addresses organizational risks, improves management systems, and supports distributed Microsoft-centric engineering teams.

Lead the engineering team responsible for Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, operational processes, customer deployments, and enterprise support. Partner across engineering, sales, field engineering, and support; prioritize roadmap tradeoffs; maintain operational health; and grow the team through hiring and onboarding. The role requires technical leadership across Kubernetes and AWS, customer-facing collaboration, production on-call experience, and software delivery in private cloud, on-premises, BYOC, or managed single-tenant environments.

Leads a hands-on product engineering team, owning hiring, development, delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, and operational health. Partners with product and design to prioritize customer-focused work, manages milestones and dependencies, and contributes directly through code reviews, debugging, prototypes, and production fixes. Builds AI-native engineering workflows using agentic tools while maintaining security, correctness, human review, and strong engineering standards.

Leads a team responsible for enterprise platform engineering across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, data platforms, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Owns reliability, security, scalability, lifecycle management, automation, governance, incident escalation, vendor coordination, and infrastructure modernization across on-premises and AWS/Azure environments. Requires strong distributed systems expertise, operational discipline, and leadership in a regulated enterprise setting.

Lead a cross-functional advertising engineering squad of backend and iOS engineers. Partner with Product and Design to discover, prioritize, and deliver consumer-facing ad experiences through experimentation. Manage backlog health, technical debt, delivery quality, and team ceremonies while coaching engineers and fostering an empowered, high-trust team. Support scalable, maintainable mobile applications and navigate privacy, consent, and advertising requirements.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.