Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Rochester, NY

Leads a backend engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable systems. Balances people management, technical direction, architecture, and execution; hires, coaches, and develops engineers; guides complex initiatives from design through production; and partners with Product and Engineering stakeholders to improve system reliability, performance, maintainability, and team productivity.

Leads the Customer Developer Experience engineering team, setting technical strategy for open-source TypeScript and React tooling. Responsibilities include supporting external developers, improving documentation and integration workflows, prioritizing work with cross-functional teams, recruiting, mentoring engineers, and maintaining high standards for software quality, testing, and reliability.

Lead and grow a developer experience team responsible for monorepo strategy, CI/CD, build systems, developer environments, and onboarding. Improve engineering velocity, CI reliability, and developer trust; establish standards, adopt AI-assisted workflows, and partner with infra/ML teams to remove friction for large-scale AI research.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Leads and coaches an engineering team building secure, full-stack account management and identity services. Responsibilities include architecting reliable frontend and backend systems, setting technical roadmaps, applying security practices, evaluating AI and platform technologies, managing migrations, hiring and mentoring engineers, and improving team productivity and growth.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team while remaining hands-on with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, architecture, and automation. Own team hiring, development, prioritization, roadmap planning, reliability improvements, and infrastructure standards. Partner with Platform Operations on observability, AIOps enablement, incident response, security, and SLOs. Guide build-versus-buy decisions, cloud strategy, developer-platform capabilities, and cross-functional technical communication.

Lead and coach multiple consultant teams to deliver enterprise-scale capstone projects. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, manage priorities, plan and execute product delivery, define architecture and non-functional requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, maintain delivery pipelines, and drive continuous improvement in engineering and recruiting practices.

Lead and own hardware engineering: define strategy and roadmaps, manage full hardware lifecycle (IoT, CV, POS, KDS), drive R&D and edge compute platforms, manage procurement/OEM/vendor relations, ensure QA, regulatory compliance, hardware security, and cross-functional alignment.

Lead and grow a Salesforce engineering team to deliver scalable Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions across GTM and CS&O. Define technical strategy, improve platform architecture, CI/CD, testing, and observability, integrate AI agents like Agentforce, and partner with product and stakeholders to prioritize delivery and operational support.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Reporting team, driving technical and product strategy, managing engineers, and collaborating across functions to enhance Vanta's reporting capabilities and product innovations.

Lead a team of 3–5 frontend engineers and drive Boulevard’s modular frontend modernization. Own React architecture using Module Federation and Micro Frontends, guide Angular-to-React migration, support CapacitorJS-based hybrid mobile experiences, and establish standards for performance, quality, security, and developer experience. Partner with product, design, architecture, backend, and mobile teams on platform roadmaps, mentor engineers, resolve complex incidents, support hiring, and communicate technical strategy to executives.

Leads a team of 5–8 engineers, balancing people management with technical leadership. Responsibilities include career development, roadmap delivery, architectural guidance, code reviews, hiring, incident response, team culture, and delivery management. Partners with Product Management and Design to build scalable, reliable, user-focused SaaS products while contributing hands-on technically and supporting remote, asynchronous collaboration.

Leads an engineering team building and scaling customer-facing integrations for agentic AI products. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, balancing customer delivery with reusable tooling and platform investments, ensuring reliability and observability, improving developer experience, collaborating cross-functionally, recruiting, and coaching engineers. The role requires customer empathy, strong engineering leadership, technical problem-solving, and experience with production systems or integrations.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building high-scale, low-latency consumer authorization platforms. Provide technical vision, partner with product, security, and data teams, balance short-term needs with long-term strategy, and hire, mentor, and retain diverse engineering talent.

Lead two teams (Consent Data & Privacy and User Data Management) as a manager-of-managers, owning execution and multi-year technical vision for user consent, data collection, storage, pipelines, access, retention, and compliance. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Legal to enforce consent and data governance at scale, adapt to evolving regulations, and drive architecture and platform solutions.

Lead and grow a team owning source control, artifact management, and CI infrastructure. Drive strategy and build the next-generation CI platform on GitHub Cloud and Actions, coordinate large-scale migrations, build vendor extensions, and partner with internal engineering teams to ensure reliability, efficiency, and scale.

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.

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.

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.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Lead remote K‑12 engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver high-availability cloud-native education platforms. Combine people management, Agile delivery, and hands-on technical leadership to modernize legacy systems, implement CI/CD and IaC, integrate emerging GenAI capabilities, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and product performance.

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.