Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads the engineering team building Webflow’s code-native platform, including high-fidelity visual-to-code workflows and coding-agent integration. Sets technical and product direction, shapes architecture, owns developer experience, sequences platform and customer-facing work, and partners across product, design, and engineering. This player-coach role includes architecture reviews, prototyping, hands-on contributions, hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing technical culture.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for core platform services, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems. Drive operating cadence, technical direction, scalability, reliability, and debt reduction. Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in architectural decisions, hire and develop engineers, and ensure predictable delivery and high-quality solutions at scale.

Lead and grow a data engineering team responsible for data models, ETL pipelines, synchronization, analytics, integrations, and APIs. Establish the team’s roadmap, architecture, data quality standards, SLOs, and operational practices. Hire and develop engineers, guide technical decisions, and collaborate with product and Salesforce leaders to build a reliable data platform supporting enterprise integrations and AI agents.

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.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Lead and develop distributed software engineering teams; define and execute platform roadmap, architecture, and standards; improve delivery, reliability, and developer productivity; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver scalable cloud-native platform services and shared capabilities.

Lead a Product Integration and Test team to integrate software and hardware into a unified autonomy product. Manage engineers, drive SIL/HIL and real-world testing on USV/UAV platforms, oversee verification/validation, CI/CD, configuration management, and collaborate with Perception/Fusion/Autonomy teams to ensure robust deployments.

Lead a small infrastructure engineering team while remaining approximately 50% hands-on. Own production reliability and modernization of Swiftly’s Azure Kubernetes platform, complete migration from legacy infrastructure, improve developer experience, and deliver infrastructure initiatives. Set priorities, coach engineers, partner with security and compliance teams, establish pragmatic technical guardrails, and promote AI-assisted development and operations.

Lead and grow the Database Reliability team to ensure highly available, scalable databases. Mentor engineers, shape incident response and capacity planning, collaborate with infrastructure/product/security, drive best practices for Postgres and CockroachDB, hire and scale the team, and own monitoring, cost optimisation, and performance tuning across environments.

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 a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Product Integration and Test team, focusing on integrating components into an autonomous product, executing technical guidance, and overseeing rigorous testing on USV and UAV platforms.

Lead and coach multiple full‑stack engineering teams and Consultants in Training. Set technical direction for Capstone Projects, translate requirements into deliverables, drive architecture and system design, manage schedules and performance, and improve recruiting and delivery pipelines. Champion agile practices, quality, tooling, and continuous improvement while interfacing with clients and senior leadership to deliver enterprise-scale software and mentor consultants toward placement and career growth.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Manage and mentor multiple small engineering pods building and operating the control plane. Provide technical leadership, drive cross-functional product outcomes, hire and grow engineers, oversee on-call and incident response, and ensure high-availability production services while fostering an inclusive, remote-friendly engineering culture.

Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads systems. Drive delivery of partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability, and product integrations while partnering with Product, Data, Privacy, and other stakeholders. Hire, onboard, and create a healthy team culture focused on maintainable, secure, and privacy-aligned software.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers building privacy-respecting Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, and product integrations. Partner with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering to navigate ambiguous privacy and policy constraints, ensure reliability and quality, hire and onboard engineers, and maintain sustainable delivery practices in a distributed environment.

Lead and grow a developer experience team responsible for monorepo strategy, CI/CD, build systems, developer environments, and onboarding. Improve engineering velocity, CI reliability, and developer trust; establish standards, adopt AI-assisted workflows, and partner with infra/ML teams to remove friction for large-scale AI research.

Manage and mentor an engineering squad while contributing technically. Own delivery, sprint execution, KPIs, hiring, security, reliability, and advocate AI-assisted development to accelerate engineering productivity.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.