Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Sacramento, CA

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to develop scalable software solutions, ensuring technical excellence and driving product innovation. Responsibilities include mentoring, overseeing code quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical delivery and integration efforts for a SaaS platform: act as technical SME for APIs, support presales and customer onboarding, triage integration issues, create documentation, and align engineering with sales and operations to scale integrations and improve SLAs.

Leads DevOps and Data Engineering teams supporting AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, incident response, data platforms, and pipelines. Sets platform strategy, mentors engineers, guides architecture, and manages technical roadmaps. Owns SOC 2 audits and penetration testing, coordinates vendors and auditors, improves security and reliability, and coaches teams on validating AI-assisted development. This player-coach role requires hands-on technical contribution and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise applications and SaaS products. Owns architecture, technical design, product lifecycle, roadmap execution, release quality, security, reliability, and operational readiness. Partners with Product, Architecture, Quality, Cloud, and Support teams, while driving engineering practices, AI-assisted development, process improvements, and customer issue resolution. Builds high-performing teams, coaches managers and engineers, and communicates technical direction, risks, and delivery outcomes to stakeholders.

Lead a West Coast team of Applications Engineers owning territory technical delivery from pre-sales POCs through post-install support. Act as senior escalation, stay hands-on commissioning robotic cells, set standards, run capacity planning and development, and travel up to 25% for key installs and escalations.

Lead and grow a team building shared test systems, production-like environments, workload testing capabilities, failure-mode validation, and engineering test frameworks. Drive system-level coverage, cross-team alignment, measurable improvements in pre-production confidence, and integration of validations into continuous or release pipelines. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, internal platform delivery experience, organizational influence, and the ability to translate production incidents into preventative test coverage.

Leads a domain of GiveDirectly’s cash delivery platform, managing 5–7 senior engineers while owning technical outcomes, reliability, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with product and organizational stakeholders on roadmaps, technical debt, infrastructure, incident response, and engineering culture. Recruits, coaches, and retains a high-performing team; sets technical quality standards; and scales payment, core platform, or offline-first data collection systems to support billions in annual cash delivery.

Lead and grow a Support Engineering team that resolves complex product issues, integrations, and data workflows. Define escalation and triage practices, build scalable diagnostics and internal tools, collaborate closely with Engineering and Product, mentor engineers on debugging, logs, and database querying, and create repeatable processes to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

Manages software engineers and integration specialists building, deploying, and operating Fastpath Access Governance services. Owns the technical roadmap, delivery, quality, architecture, and operational health of cloud-native services. Partners with product, UX, and architecture teams in Scrum, drives AI-assisted engineering practices, oversees ERP and business application integrations, and develops a supportive, high-performing engineering culture.

Lead engineering teams to develop AI-powered software for local governments, enhance user-facing features, and drive continuous process improvement.

Leads engineering design authority and integration for a major copper mining project through FEED, construction, and handover. Directs EPCM performance, establishes design standards, manages technical risks, approves key engineering deliverables, and leads constructability, operability, value engineering, process safety, stage-gate, change control, quality, and technical assurance activities. Builds the owner’s engineering team and ensures designs are safe, operable, maintainable, cost-effective, and ready for operations.

Manage and grow the Video Enablement engineering team, own core video pipeline (ingest, transcode, storage, playback), enable third-party device integrations, collaborate on video roadmap, ensure scalable resilient AWS infrastructure, mentor engineers, contribute technically when needed, and support production incidents and cross-team enablement.

Lead two engineering teams owning the WMS platform: people management, predictable sprint delivery, platform enhancements, production reliability, incident leadership, and cross-team alignment with product and peers.

Lead and develop a remote team of Python engineers, ensuring their growth and satisfaction while driving high-quality software delivery.

As the Engineering Manager for Scribe's Platform team, you will lead the backend team, define technical strategy, collaborate on product outcomes, and foster engineering culture while ensuring reliability and compliance.

Lead a hands-on engineering team to improve kernel-centric reliability of large AI compute clusters. Own technical vision, build diagnostic and debug tooling, collaborate with SW and HW teams to reduce downtime, speed failure analysis, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable production systems.

As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own UI architecture, mentor team members, manage technical initiatives, and drive AI-powered feature development.

Leads the Platform Development and browser engineering teams, overseeing architecture, development, delivery, optimization, and operational excellence for scalable enterprise software. Maintains hands-on technical involvement while building high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, driving AI enablement, improving engineering practices, and executing the product roadmap. Partners with Product, Architecture, Data, and AI teams to deliver reliable, secure, performant platform capabilities and communicates technical strategy and progress to executive stakeholders.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

Lead Docker’s Secure Build and SCS Services teams, owning delivery, team health, technical direction, operational excellence, hiring, and engineer development. Shape portfolio priorities across secure build, Docker Scout, and Docker Hardened Images while balancing roadmap work, reliability, on-call, and stakeholder commitments. Partner with Product and cross-functional teams, guide distributed-systems and infrastructure decisions, oversee incidents and production operations, and establish clear ownership across team interfaces. The role requires strong backend engineering judgment, software supply-chain security understanding, and leadership across remote European and US teams.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

Lead engineering for CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Operations platform. Hire, develop, and manage software engineers; partner cross-functionally on product vision, roadmaps, and strategy; oversee delivery, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence; guide architecture and technical decisions; and transform compensation operations into an AI-native experience using intelligent agents to reduce manual work.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.