Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Lead and develop the SRE team responsible for reliable, secure deployments across on-premises DoD and AWS environments. Own capacity planning, prioritization, reliability roadmaps, operational readiness, incident response, observability, and toil reduction. Coordinate delivery across engineering, security, and customer success teams while guiding infrastructure, automation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, and application reliability decisions. Manage team performance, hiring, career development, on-call practices, postmortems, and stakeholder communication.

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.

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.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Lead and mentor the software engineering team responsible for PSA Set Registry, a large-scale consumer web and mobile product. Drive architecture, development, delivery, code quality, release management, production troubleshooting, and technical strategy. Partner with product, design, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions while promoting agile practices, collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Leads a 5–10 person autonomy engineering team developing motion planning, tactical behaviors, multi-agent coordination, track fusion, and decision-making capabilities. Owns hiring, mentoring, technical direction, architecture, delivery, integration, validation, and field deployment across software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and live testing. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams and defense customers while remaining technically engaged in C++ development and complex autonomy challenges.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Lead Firestorm’s Simulation team and develop a reusable UAS simulation platform supporting aircraft models, sensors, propulsion, flight software, SIL/HIL testing, scenario orchestration, distributed execution, training, and demonstrations. Manage simulation infrastructure, integrations, automated test environments, cross-platform deployment, and team growth. The role requires hands-on software and simulation expertise across complex aircraft, robotics, networking, and hardware systems.

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.

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.

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.

Leads and builds the Shared Services Engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, technical direction, architecture, delivery, and production operations. Owns the roadmap for shared services, SDKs, APIs, authentication, telemetry integrations, and customer-facing applications. Establishes secure, reliable interfaces and partners across engineering, product, and organizational leadership to align priorities, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption of reusable capabilities.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.

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.

Leads a managed services engineering team supporting mainframe environments. Oversees customer satisfaction, service-level agreement delivery, staffing, resource allocation, operational processes, continuous improvement, budgets, vendor relationships, and technical service optimization. Serves as product owner for assigned services, manages performance and development, coordinates strategic technology planning, and supports customer reviews and escalations. Requires mainframe expertise, consulting leadership, ITIL knowledge, process improvement skills, and the ability to manage complex customer and business priorities.

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 and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Lead and grow a team of Azure Solution Engineers to drive cloud migration, application modernization, and AI adoption for Education, Nonprofit, and IGO customers. Partner with sales, engineering, product, and partners to deliver secure, governed, and scalable Cloud & AI solutions, scale repeatable plays, and coach technical talent to achieve measurable customer and business outcomes.

Leads a team of 6–10 engineers building and operating cloud-native platform services. Owns hiring, coaching, delivery, roadmap, reliability, scalability, SLOs, on-call practices, and technical direction across hyperscaler, on-premises, and sovereign environments. Partners with senior engineering stakeholders, reviews designs and code, contributes to architecture and implementation, and communicates risks and trade-offs to leadership. Requires extensive production software experience, Kubernetes and distributed systems expertise, people management experience, hyperscaler knowledge, and familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.

Leads two infrastructure and engineering systems squads, owning roadmap, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, mentoring, and vendor budgets. Ships production code, manages on-call performance, oversees audits and automation, and partners across engineering and business functions. Requires substantial software engineering and people-management experience, hands-on production development across cloud or application technologies, strong CI/CD and observability knowledge, security awareness, and experience directing AI agents in production workflows.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.