Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead and develop an SRE team responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, automation, and observability of Linux-based digital commerce infrastructure. Set SRE and DevOps strategy, modernize Kubernetes and CI/CD practices, establish automation and infrastructure-as-code standards, oversee incident response, and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Partner across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, and product teams while recruiting, mentoring, and developing SRE talent.

Lead and grow an engineering team that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale distributed systems and cloud-native platform services for Azure. Drive technical strategy, architecture, cross-team initiatives, operational excellence, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and observable infrastructure solutions.

Leads the Product Acquisition engineering team and drives technology strategy, architecture, software delivery, DevOps maturity, platform adoption, vendor management, and operational excellence. Partners with product managers on roadmaps and business outcomes, ensures engineering standards and production support, and coaches, recruits, and develops engineers and consultants. Requires strong software development, product operating model, project management, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership experience.

Leads the technical vision and engineering team for a high-throughput data and event platform. Oversees scalable distributed data systems, pipelines, databases, cloud infrastructure, data governance, and system integration. Partners with AI, ML, analytics, and platform teams to expand self-service capabilities, manages technical debt and architecture decisions, prioritizes projects, and recruits and mentors engineers.

Leads the Data Platform and Infrastructure team, owning strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational development. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, guiding data ingestion and platform design, establishing APIs, SLAs, governance, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. The role partners with Product, Data, Finance, Security, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, experimentation, machine learning, and data products while scaling reliable infrastructure and developing future technical leaders.

Leads global automation engineering projects from concept through deployment, including capital planning, technology evaluation, equipment development, installation, commissioning, and operational handover. Collaborates with global cross-functional teams and suppliers while managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. Advances Industry 4.0, robotics, AI/ML, IoT, digital twin, and automated material-handling solutions to improve repair operations, reliability, sustainability, and efficiency.

Leads and develops a team of software engineers while balancing people management with technical leadership. Responsibilities include coaching, performance management, roadmap planning, architecture and code-quality guidance, hiring, staffing, risk management, incident response, stakeholder communication, and cross-team engineering initiatives. The manager partners with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable software and foster a collaborative, accountable culture.

Leads and scales the MSP/MSSP engineering team responsible for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities, including account hierarchies, tenant isolation, delegated administration, dashboards, licensing, and white-labeling. Oversees architecture, engineering quality, roadmap execution, partner support, hiring, mentoring, and team development. Collaborates with Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and engineering leadership while balancing strategic delivery with operational needs.

Leads multiple software engineering teams supporting account opening and customer initiatives. Oversees software development, maintenance, integrations, delivery, quality, and technical processes while mentoring employees and partnering with Product, Architecture, Project Management, and business teams. Drives automation, AI adoption, process improvement, and operational efficiency. Requires software development expertise, API and database experience, Agile and SDLC knowledge, and demonstrated people leadership.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Leads the backend platform engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable, secure core systems. Owns platform strategy, roadmap, architecture, operational excellence, reliability metrics, incident response, and engineering quality standards. Manages, hires, and develops backend engineers while partnering with Product, Security, Customer Operations, and other engineering teams. Establishes guardrails for AI-assisted development and drives platform APIs, shared services, and infrastructure supporting company-wide product delivery.

Leads industrial engineering strategy across a multi-site logistics network, managing engineers and major continuous improvement, automation, and systems integration initiatives. Develops business cases, ROI analyses, engineering roadmaps, governance frameworks, and performance metrics. Partners with customers, operations, IT, automation providers, and senior leaders to improve safety, productivity, service, capacity, and standardization across distribution and contract packaging sites.

Lead a 15-person Container Product Engineering team building hardened container images, registry services, build systems, adoption tooling, and compliance features. Own team outcomes, hiring, coaching, roadmap execution, technical quality, delivery, planning, and cross-functional collaboration. Remain hands-on through code and design reviews while guiding AI-native engineering practices. The role partners with product and platform teams and offers a path toward broader Director-level scope.

Leads a team of 10 engineers building and maintaining NIBRS and compliance reporting capabilities for public safety records platforms. Oversees technical quality, validation, certification, delivery, incident follow-through, resource allocation, and team development. Partners with product, R&D, agencies, and regulators to implement federal and state reporting requirements, improve engineering operations, and define the roadmap for new states, report types, automation, and platform capabilities. The role is remote within the United States with travel of up to 25%.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Leads a software engineering team building backend services, APIs, and product integrations. Responsibilities include people management, technical direction, architecture reviews, delivery planning, vendor coordination, API and integration standards, testing, observability, security, release readiness, and production support. The manager also recruits and develops engineers, manages dependencies and risks, and ensures reliable, maintainable solutions across internal teams, customers, and external technology partners.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

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 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 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.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team building a scalable cloud data and analytics platform. Owns architecture, data modeling, technical delivery, roadmaps, product collaboration, agile planning, quality standards, security alignment, vendor relationships, and engineering KPIs. The role remains hands-on with coding, code reviews, documentation, data architecture, deployment, and development of SaaS data products using Azure or AWS, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake, and Power BI.

Leads and mentors cross-functional engineering teams building and operating distributed, API-driven, cloud-native platforms. Owns technical strategy, architecture, delivery outcomes, engineering excellence, operational reliability, and API lifecycle governance. Drives Agile, DevOps, cloud migration, observability, and incident management practices. Establishes responsible AI adoption across software development and guides delivery of AI-enabled products, including agentic solutions, with appropriate evaluation and controls.