Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering AI-powered data connectivity solutions. Owns execution, delivery, technical direction, operational reliability, and cross-team coordination. Develops engineering talent through coaching, hiring, and performance management while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on priorities and organizational planning. Guides architecture, cloud-native development, incident response, SLOs, and AI-assisted software development practices. Requires strong Java/Kotlin expertise, cloud architecture experience, and technical judgment across distributed systems.

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.

Executes systems engineering across R&D platforms, hybrid cloud, SaaS, HPC, containers, integrations, data pipelines, observability, and AI architectures. Coordinates Enterprise IT, vendors, cybersecurity, compliance, and scientific stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, validated, and supportable solutions. Develops technical documentation, deployment plans, runbooks, monitoring, lifecycle artifacts, risk logs, and operational handoffs. Implements RAG, vector database, AI gateway, agentic workflow, and multimodal integration patterns while supporting cloud migration, change management, governance, and technical issue resolution.

Lead the Firestorm OS engineering team developing a reusable Linux-based software platform for autonomous aircraft. Own platform architecture, shared services, hardware interfaces, SDKs, networking, integration, release execution, reliability, and debugging across complex aircraft systems. Partner with autonomy, avionics, payload, electrical, mechanical, and systems teams while hiring and developing embedded Linux and systems software engineers.

Lead and grow Vanta’s App Primitives engineering team, overseeing hiring, team health, delivery, and senior engineer development. Own the strategy and roadmap for shared infrastructure including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. Set full-stack technical direction, define interfaces between platform and product teams, manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with engineering, product, and design leaders to deliver scalable infrastructure.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Leads and develops a software engineering team through coaching, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and engineering leadership on priorities, execution, architecture, and technical strategy. Reviews system designs, evaluates tradeoffs, supports code reviews, and drives improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, testing, and engineering processes. Works remotely with cross-functional leaders to deliver and maintain veterinary software products.

Lead delivery and technical execution for an AI-driven pipeline integrity platform spanning data architecture, engineering, data science, application engineering, and QA. Remain hands-on through coding, design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and quality oversight. Manage compliance, security, audit readiness, release planning, hiring, team development, and cross-functional collaboration. Ensure platform outputs are traceable, reproducible, secure, and delivered predictably against phased milestones.

Leads digital engineering execution, architecture, technical strategy, and customer-facing problem solving. Manages and mentors Forward Deployed Engineers, oversees concurrent initiatives, reviews designs and implementations, translates customer needs into technical plans, and establishes reusable standards and processes. The role combines hands-on engineering leadership with people management across MBSE, CAD/PLM, requirements, simulation, software integrations, and digital thread capabilities.

Leads a 20-plus-person distributed Review Engineering organization across three agile squads. Owns technical direction, production reliability, incident response, system scalability, delivery metrics, hiring, performance management, and engineering career growth. Partners with Product, Design, Security, Clinical Operations, and peer engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-quality systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Lead and develop an SRE team responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, automation, and observability of Linux-based digital commerce infrastructure. Set SRE and DevOps strategy, modernize Kubernetes and CI/CD practices, establish automation and infrastructure-as-code standards, oversee incident response, and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Partner across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, and product teams while recruiting, mentoring, and developing SRE talent.

Leads the Product Acquisition engineering team and drives technology strategy, architecture, software delivery, DevOps maturity, platform adoption, vendor management, and operational excellence. Partners with product managers on roadmaps and business outcomes, ensures engineering standards and production support, and coaches, recruits, and develops engineers and consultants. Requires strong software development, product operating model, project management, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership experience.

Leads the Data Platform and Infrastructure team, owning strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational development. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, guiding data ingestion and platform design, establishing APIs, SLAs, governance, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. The role partners with Product, Data, Finance, Security, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, experimentation, machine learning, and data products while scaling reliable infrastructure and developing future technical leaders.

Leads and scales the MSP/MSSP engineering team responsible for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities, including account hierarchies, tenant isolation, delegated administration, dashboards, licensing, and white-labeling. Oversees architecture, engineering quality, roadmap execution, partner support, hiring, mentoring, and team development. Collaborates with Product, Partnerships, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and engineering leadership while balancing strategic delivery with operational needs.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Leads the backend platform engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable, secure core systems. Owns platform strategy, roadmap, architecture, operational excellence, reliability metrics, incident response, and engineering quality standards. Manages, hires, and develops backend engineers while partnering with Product, Security, Customer Operations, and other engineering teams. Establishes guardrails for AI-assisted development and drives platform APIs, shared services, and infrastructure supporting company-wide product delivery.

Leads a team of 10 engineers building and maintaining NIBRS and compliance reporting capabilities for public safety records platforms. Oversees technical quality, validation, certification, delivery, incident follow-through, resource allocation, and team development. Partners with product, R&D, agencies, and regulators to implement federal and state reporting requirements, improve engineering operations, and define the roadmap for new states, report types, automation, and platform capabilities. The role is remote within the United States with travel of up to 25%.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

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.

Leads DevOps engineering teams and manages cloud infrastructure and foundational services across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Oversees infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, scalability, reliability, cost optimization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and cloud security. Partners with product, engineering, and security stakeholders while mentoring engineers and driving continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices.

Leads a quality engineering team while remaining hands-on with AI-powered test automation across API, UI, integration, and end-to-end workflows. Evaluates AI tools, improves test frameworks and regression efficiency, supports release readiness, analyzes defects, tracks quality metrics, and partners with Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Release teams. Coaches employees on AI-native quality practices, prompt engineering, responsible AI use, and evaluating AI-generated tests.

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.

Leads large-scale cluster deployment from rack delivery through production acceptance, including network bring-up, cabling verification, GPU-fabric integration, validation, burn-in, and RCCL performance testing. Manages deployment engineers across concurrent builds, improves deployment velocity, establishes operational playbooks and acceptance gates, coordinates with data center teams and vendors, and drives defect resolution across network, cabling, and hardware partners.

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.