Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads GitLab’s Dedicated Infrastructure team, combining technical leadership and people management. Responsibilities include guiding architecture, maintaining high availability and security, automating provisioning and operations, improving self-service platforms, managing incidents, recruiting and developing team members, using AI to improve productivity, and prioritizing work through data and risk analysis. The role requires expertise in distributed services, fleet management, Terraform, AWS, high-availability operations, remote team leadership, and complex project delivery.

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 mentor a remote team of 3–6 engineers building and operating CrowdStrike’s internal cloud management platform. Provide technical guidance, code review oversight, architectural input, roadmap execution, hiring support, and professional development. The role involves developing Go and TypeScript APIs and UIs, maintaining highly available cloud infrastructure, collaborating with leadership, and delivering reliable software at scale.

Leads a team of 6–10 software engineers building and operating cloud-native platform services. Owns hiring, coaching, delivery, roadmap, reliability, scalability, incident reduction, and technical direction across hyperscaler, on-premises, and sovereign environments. Partners with engineering leaders, reviews designs and code, guides architecture, and communicates risks and trade-offs to stakeholders. Requires substantial experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering people management.

Manages plant engineering, maintenance, and sustainability functions. Oversees equipment repairs, engineering support for facility construction and modifications, departmental budgets, capital planning, asset preservation, cost reduction, equipment uptime, safety, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Leads engineering and maintenance teams while supporting Six Sigma, Lean, reliability, and housekeeping excellence programs.

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.

Leads and grows the electrical engineering team while overseeing architecture, design, integration, verification, qualification, and production of complex laser, photonic, and electro-optical systems. Establishes engineering processes, standards, documentation, and DFM/DFA practices; manages cross-functional project execution; supports manufacturing test strategies, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and system-level hardware-software integration.

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.

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 end-to-end PCB architecture, schematic capture, and layout for high-performance cellular base stations. Design RF, analog, digital, high-speed SerDes, and power circuits; optimize stack-up, signal/power/thermal integrity, drive DFM/vendor reviews, support board bring-up, and mentor other designers while collaborating cross-functionally.

Leads a managed services engineering team responsible for AIX, Unix, and Linux service delivery. Oversees customer satisfaction, SLA performance, staffing, workload allocation, process improvement, operational procedures, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Manages customer reviews, support escalations, performance management, hiring, on-call schedules, and continuous service improvement while coordinating strategic and tactical technology plans across internal teams and partners.

Leads distributed engineering and quality teams developing cloud-based S3, NAS, and managed Lustre storage services. Owns technical direction, architecture, delivery planning, release quality, reliability, incident response, automation, customer escalations, and operational excellence. Partners with Product, Support, Sales Engineering, Cloud Operations, and executive stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable storage solutions for enterprise and AI/HPC customers.

Lead and develop an engineering squad building scalable partner-facing products and APIs. Shape multi-quarter strategy, coordinate across engineering and business teams, guide architecture and technical tradeoffs, improve reliability and delivery practices, and develop engineers and emerging leaders. Partner with Product, Design, and Business Development to translate customer and partner needs into durable platform capabilities while influencing broader engineering direction and culture.

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.

Leads a team of engineers and scientists performing nuclear dose consequence, dispersion, source-term, decay-heat, radiological safety, and ALARA analyses. Provides technical and managerial leadership, oversees engineering deliverables, coordinates internal teams, suppliers, customers, and regulatory agencies, and supports program management, quality, corrective actions, process improvement, and commercial opportunities for advanced and existing nuclear reactor programs.

Lead a small Infrastructure and Agentic Platform team while serving as a hands-on engineering manager. Own AWS infrastructure, data platforms, security, compliance, reliability, and AI-native software development workflows. Mentor engineers, guide hiring, define the roadmap, and build tools for planning, coding, testing, monitoring, and triage. The role requires balancing AI acceleration with engineering quality, cost, security, and operational reliability in a healthcare AI environment.

Leads the Customer Studio engineering team across product development, technical roadmap execution, reliability, recruiting, delivery pace, and people development. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management while addressing data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI initiatives.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Lead the engineering team responsible for 300+ destination integrations. Balance hands-on development with people leadership, prioritize integration and platform improvements, optimize sync performance through batching, parallelism, and rate-limit detection, mentor engineers, and explore AI-driven developer productivity. The role also involves customer and partner collaboration, system design, technical execution, and prioritization of high-value deliverables.

Leads the engineering team responsible for Airbnb’s globally scalable AirCover insurance platform. Sets technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and operational standards for configurable insurance products, pricing, enrollment, coverage management, and experimentation. Partners with Product, Data Science, Legal, Insurance, Finance, and Operations to expand across regions and improve attach rates. Manages hiring, mentoring, career development, incident response, and engineering quality while guiding distributed, high-availability backend systems and ML-driven experimentation.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.