Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Sacramento, CA

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 and grows an engineering team building financial and supply chain platforms, including agentic workflow automation, reporting, forecasting, tax, compliance, and operational systems. Sets technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and delivery practices while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Compliance, Product, and Operations. Ensures reliability, security, scalability, testing, observability, and operational excellence, while developing engineers, future leaders, and a healthy engineering culture.

Manages capital engineering projects for baking and packaging plants, including project planning, budgeting, equipment specifications, vendor and construction management, installation, troubleshooting, and training. Supports process improvement, equipment performance analysis, capacity planning, and root-cause investigations. Ensures projects meet scope, budget, timeline, quality, and design requirements while improving manufacturing costs and operations.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying AI models on edge devices. Set technical strategy for embedded systems, latency, power, memory, and model performance; provide hands-on leadership; partner with Product and Hardware teams to ship mass-production products; shape roadmaps; and hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.

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 and develops a globally distributed engineering team while shaping technical strategy, modernizing a SaaS platform, and building scalable solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, improving CI/CD, reliability, delivery practices, and advancing responsible AI adoption across engineering.

Leads and develops a globally distributed software engineering team while remaining 50% hands-on. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy and modernization, building scalable SaaS solutions with .NET, React, APIs, and cloud technologies, improving CI/CD and reliability, mentoring engineers, influencing architecture, and advancing responsible AI use across engineering.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams across multiple product pods. Provide technical direction, oversee production services and operational readiness, manage on-call and incident response, support hiring and career development, and drive cross-functional planning and delivery. The role requires strong people-management experience, technical judgment, production-service expertise, and the ability to work asynchronously in a distributed startup environment.

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 a full-stack engineering team while remaining hands-on with AWS infrastructure, cloud security, observability, reliability, and AI-first development practices. Owns AWS CDK architecture, serverless scalability, internal tooling, engineering standards, and product development using TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, and related technologies. Manages engineers, partners with product and Salesforce teams, coordinates distributed development, and supports hiring and team growth.

Leads and develops a team of GTM engineers building AI agents, workflows, integrations, and internal infrastructure for marketing, sales, and customer success. Establishes engineering standards, documentation, review, ownership, and rollback practices; partners on roadmap planning; manages technical vendor relationships; and coordinates transitions from prototypes to long-term engineering ownership. The role remains hands-on while hiring, mentoring, and improving team operations in a fully remote environment.

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.

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.

Leads and expands civil engineering capabilities in the Sacramento area. Responsibilities include mentoring and recruiting technical staff, business development, client and proposal management, project leadership, technical delivery, design oversight, and quality control. The role manages engineering teams and projects involving transportation infrastructure, municipal utilities, and water resources, while collaborating with senior leadership and staff across offices. Occasional travel to company offices in South Lake Tahoe, Oakland, and Richmond is required.

Lead an engineering team responsible for reliability processes and platforms, including incident management, maintenance, on-call, issue management, and production readiness. Own the roadmap, technical direction, delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement of operational systems. Partner across infrastructure, product, and security teams; lead major incident response; hire and develop engineers; and apply automation, AI, and operational insights to improve service reliability and reduce manual work.

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 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 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.

Leads the enterprise data platform engineering team and owns the reliability, security, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of relational, NoSQL, and analytical platforms. Oversees database operations, ETL/ELT, Azure and Fabric environments, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, incident response, IaC, GitOps, automation, compliance, and vendor evaluations. Manages engineers, on-call operations, technical standards, platform investments, and cross-functional delivery while remaining hands-on with complex database design, administration, and performance issues.