Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead and mentor an engineering team to deliver high-quality SaaS features end-to-end. Drive architecture and technical decisions, manage execution and support escalations, improve CI/CD and observability, track delivery KPIs, and participate in hiring and career development to scale the team in a fast-growing startup environment.

The Mobile Engineering Manager will lead a team of Android and iOS engineers, manage app feature development, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure project delivery in wearable technology.

Lead and mentor systems, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams to deliver electro-mechanical systems for military applications. Oversee requirements, design, V&V, production processes, configuration management, budgeting, resource allocation, and customer-facing reviews. Coordinate with PMO and cross-discipline managers to meet program milestones and ensure production quality and delivery.

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.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

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 a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Lead and grow a mobile engineering squad building highly-available, distributed SaaS products. Drive technical execution, mentor engineers, run Agile ceremonies, hire, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, Security, Data, and GTM to deliver roadmap outcomes.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

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.

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.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor a team of engineers while driving architectural decisions and hands-on coding. The role involves managing technical execution, collaboration with product teams, and fostering a culture of excellence within the engineering team.

Lead and grow the Customer Studio engineering team to deliver major product features, improve execution pace, hiring, reliability, and incident management. Drive data-warehouse performance optimizations, real-time audience syncing (CDC), analytics/experimentation, and integrate generative AI to improve user workflows while mentoring engineers and collaborating on roadmap and recruiting.

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 day-to-day operations for multiple engineering teams, drive sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps, remove blockers, improve delivery processes, coach and develop engineers, review technical and architectural decisions, coordinate cross-team dependencies, partner with product and design, and track engineering metrics to continuously improve quality and throughput.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Web & Add-ins team, driving product development and team optimization while ensuring project success and best practices.

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.

Lead and grow a full‑stack engineering team building customer data and identity solutions. Own architecture, APIs, component libraries, code quality, hiring, mentoring, roadmap execution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Contribute code for high‑impact items and ensure scalable systems and agile best practices.

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 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.

Leads Engineering team for designing secure, scalable technology solutions. Focuses on automation, operational efficiency, and modern platform implementation. Oversees team projects, automation strategies, and ensures operational excellence.

Contribute to the development of the authentication and authorization platform, define AI workflows, improve identity layers, and mentor team members.

Lead 2–3 software teams (12–20 engineers), owning people management, hiring, retention, and stakeholder communication. Drive adoption of AI tools, guide technical debt and platform investment decisions, and partner with tech leads and Product Owners to keep delivery aligned and healthy in a regulated payments 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.