Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Build and lead a globally distributed DevOps engineering team responsible for reliable platform capabilities and repository experiences. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; guide architecture, security, performance, and maintainability; align delivery with product and design; improve agile workflows and execution; integrate AI-assisted tooling; and support operational health, reliability, and incident management.

Lead a globally distributed IT engineering team building enterprise integrations, workflow automation, orchestration, and AI-native workflows. Set technical direction, establish roadmaps, manage delivery metrics, and partner with business and service operations leaders to eliminate manual work. Guide engineers on architecture, CI/CD, testing, and development practices while evaluating emerging automation and AI tools. Build integrations across identity, ITSM, SaaS, and enterprise systems, and grow team capabilities across US and India time zones.

Leads a 2–4 person engineering team while remaining hands-on in a TypeScript codebase. Owns delivery planning, performance management, career development, technical contributions, incident response, team health, quality, and compliance. Partners with Product, Design, and engineering teams to translate strategy into reliable software, manage risks and dependencies, remove blockers, and improve productivity through AI-enabled engineering practices.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Leads the GTI engineering team, managing people, delivery, architecture, code quality, releases, production health, and on-call operations. The role remains hands-on, requiring contributions across C#/.NET services, TypeScript/React frontend systems, SQL Server, Azure infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and testing. The manager partners with product, design, and tax content teams to ship reliable tax and regulatory software on schedule.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads advanced device development for Intel Foundry semiconductor process technologies. Manages device engineers, directs experiments and electrical or physical data analysis, develops test structures, validates design rules, supports PDK delivery, and collaborates across integration, modeling, reliability, and foundry engineering teams. Uses statistical analysis, data mining, machine learning, and fab data to guide process development and ensure performance, yield, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing readiness.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads engineering resource allocation across concurrent industrial automation and systems-integration projects while contributing as a senior technical engineer. Responsibilities include capacity planning, project staffing, technical reviews, troubleshooting, estimating, FAT, commissioning, capability development, manufacturing collaboration, and improving resource planning through project performance data. The role is onsite in Sacramento with up to 10% travel and focuses on panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, networking, telemetry, testing, and field execution.

Leads a software engineering team responsible for designing, developing, operating, and reliably delivering core cloud-scale SailPoint products. Owns technical direction, architecture reviews, code quality, sprint execution, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and delivery metrics. Partners with Product Management and architecture leaders on roadmaps, coaches engineers, drives operational excellence, and promotes AI-assisted development. The team uses AWS, event-driven microservices, and distributed systems to build enterprise-grade identity security products.

Lead and manage an engineering/product development team to deliver automotive products. Oversee budgets, prioritize projects, drive product development from concept to market, perform ROI analysis, improve processes, and ensure post-sale product performance and customer satisfaction. Develop staff and succession plans.

Leads systems engineering execution and manages approximately 10 technical leaders supporting cyber and intelligence programs and captures. Responsibilities include technical leadership, talent development, staffing, engineering baseline and cost/schedule management, metrics, budgeting, process improvement, workload forecasting, issue resolution, and cross-functional resource coordination. The role requires expertise in SIGINT, cyber, non-kinetic operations, cryptography, or related missions, plus active Top Secret/SCI clearance and up to 25% travel.

Lead architecture, scalability, performance, and security for Salesforce and Node.js applications while managing a team of 10–15 engineers. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve development velocity, oversee integrations and deployment processes, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. The role combines hands-on Salesforce technical architecture with people management, hiring, career development, and delivery accountability.

Leads and contributes to a distributed business systems development team of approximately eight developers. Responsibilities include Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft, Databricks, ETL, and database development; technical standards; roadmap ownership; people management; mentoring; hiring; stakeholder partnership; database administration; security; performance tuning; and automation. The role requires hands-on coding alongside team leadership and delivery management.

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 and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

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.

The job description provides limited role-specific details. The Platform Engineering Manager would presumably lead platform engineering efforts supporting Zocdoc’s digital healthcare marketplace, collaborating with teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Leads and mentors software and QA engineers while contributing hands-on code, architecture, debugging, and code reviews. Owns QA strategy, automation, quality metrics, SDLC processes, delivery visibility, platform stability, compliance, and cross-functional release readiness. Requires balancing people leadership with technical contributions across a telehealth platform, including secure and scalable web applications and APIs.