Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Own a cross-functional engineering product pod, including roadmap delivery, technical quality, team culture, and engineer development. The role is a hands-on leadership position involving code reviews, architecture decisions, coding, performance management, hiring, and collaboration with product managers and designers. Potential focus areas include consumer experimentation, ML-powered lawyer matching, attorney tools, or AI-native legal products.

Lead and grow a mechanical systems team for the X-BAT jet-engine VTOL UAV, designing and integrating flight- and mission-critical mechanisms (doors, uplocks/downlocks, landing gear, actuation). Provide technical direction, set engineering quality standards, coordinate cross-functional integration, oversee builds and test campaigns, manage suppliers, and coach engineers through development and release.

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.

Lead and grow the engineering team owning the warehouse management system (WMS), vault, and fulfillment platforms. Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and integrations; partner with product; provide architectural guidance; champion AI/LLM tooling; establish operating standards, incident response, and observability; recruit and mentor engineers and technical leads.

Lead the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

Leads a product design engineering team developing space solar panels and wings from concept through production release. Oversees technical design decisions, product configurations, project plans, quality, cost, schedule, suppliers, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and test engineering. Manages and mentors employees, drives design-process improvements, supports compliance with standards, and fosters an inclusive, psychologically safe, performance-oriented workplace.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead a global network engineering team to design, scale, and operate large-scale IP and optical backbone and hybrid cloud connectivity. Own technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy, automation, vendor relationships, hardware/software integration, testing, tooling, DDoS mitigation, operational excellence, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations while ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

Lead full-stack engineering teams building ServiceNow’s AI Experience Framework, a Lit-based platform for reusable conversational user interfaces. Own roadmap delivery, architecture, technical direction, staffing, mentoring, production escalations, and cross-team coordination. Guide decisions involving AI integration, performance at scale, server-rendered components, routing, APIs, state management, and multi-team framework adoption.

Leads the Modeling and Simulation team supporting engineering integration and execution. Manages staff, priorities, talent development, continuous improvement, cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality. Oversees system simulation frameworks, performance models, algorithms, operational environment simulations, trade studies, mission concepts, LORA, spares sensitivity, O&S cost analyses, ROI, and model-based systems engineering. Communicates modeling results and recommendations to internal and external customers.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead platform engineering projects for an on-premises virtual cloud (VC3), provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams, manage DevOps engineers, ensure cost/schedule/technical performance, maintain metrics and service levels, communicate risks to leadership, and improve processes and staffing to meet tenant needs and compliance.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow the mechanical engineering team for avionics in X-BAT aircraft and ground vehicles. Own architecture, thermal, harnessing, and electro-mechanical design from concept through manufacturing, partnering with electrical, RF, PCB, reliability, supply chain, structures, and manufacturing teams to deliver flight-critical systems.

Lead and grow the mechanical engineering team responsible for avionics packaging, thermal, harnessing, and electro-mechanical design for the X-BAT aircraft and ground vehicle. Drive architecture, cross-functional integration, manufacturing readiness, and deliver flight-critical systems that endure harsh environments while hiring and mentoring engineering leads.

Lead and mentor a team integrating and validating the Hivemind autonomy platform across SIL, HIL, and flight environments. Drive architecture and tooling for integration, review logs/telemetry/rosbags, triage cross-system defects, partner with Engineering/Product/Program teams, and ensure capabilities meet product and customer requirements while remaining hands-on in system integration and debugging.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.