Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Lead a Product Engineering squad (8–15 engineers), prioritize people development, hiring, process, and predictable delivery. Drive AI-native practices, technical credibility, customer-focused outcomes, testing/validation, and cross-functional partnerships while owning team budget and headcount.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable brokerage systems and middle/back-office services (gRPC microservices, React admin UI). Lead regional recruitment and reliability, mentor engineers, act as incident commander, collaborate with global teams, troubleshoot issues, and build solutions supporting multi-language/currency markets and regulatory requirements.

Lead a squad end-to-end to deliver customer value: set direction, drive execution, ensure scalable and secure architectures, stay close to technical work, coach and grow engineers, hire and manage performance, and apply AI-native practices to accelerate delivery.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

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.

Manage engineering operations and projects including budgeting, scheduling, staff direction, permitting, and client/agency coordination. Oversee civil design and construction documentation for land development and public works, perform design calculations, review drawings, and ensure quality and regulatory compliance. Prepare and stamp improvement plans, lead design reviews, and coordinate with survey, CAD, and technical staff.

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.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

Manage two engineering teams building Ethereum developer tooling (Hardhat and EDR). Provide technical leadership, own product roadmap, ensure timely delivery, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, improve hiring and performance processes, and align stakeholders and community.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead and grow the backend engineering team that owns the high-traffic application process. Own technical direction, architecture, delivery, hiring, and hands-on engineering (design/code reviews). Partner with product and design to take ambiguous problems to production while raising engineering standards.

The role involves leading technical teams to develop high-quality software, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open source projects. Responsibilities include planning, execution, and enhancing the Linux user experience across various teams and technologies.

Leads and develops software engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and design to deliver secure, scalable, reliable features; guides architecture and engineering best practices; improves processes, velocity, and execution; and translates customer and business needs into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on leadership in a high-growth startup environment and ownership of engineering culture, performance, reliability, and talent development.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Leads IT engineering strategy, teams, and delivery across infrastructure, cloud, networking, compliance, and client implementations. Oversees enterprise and hybrid-cloud solutions, automation, monitoring, DevOps, security compliance, and continuous improvement. Partners with executives, service delivery, sales, account management, and clients on roadmaps, technical solutions, proposals, and business outcomes. Ensures projects meet scope, budget, quality, security, and client requirements while driving scalable MSP services.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

Lead and grow an engineering team building airgapped, UDS-compatible, cloud-native software. Own delivery of scalable, secure products, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and coordinate with Product, Growth, and Delivery to meet customer and roadmap objectives.

Lead and mentor a team of full‑stack/backend engineers building integrations, identity verification, SSO, account opening, funding/ACH pipelines, and a public API platform. Drive architecture and delivery, champion quality and reliability, partner with Product and Implementation on roadmap and escalations, and remain hands‑on to guide technical decisions and ship production software.

Lead a globally distributed QA team to define QA strategy, governance, and audit-ready processes for regulated banking clients. Drive test automation, CI/release gating, regression coverage, incident response, and partner with Professional Services for UAT and integration validation while reporting quality KPIs.