Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Leads engineering managers and software teams building customer-facing front-end applications and internal and external APIs. Sets technical direction, oversees delivery, manages risks and dependencies, improves engineering quality and security, develops talent, supports hiring, and partners with product and design. The role drives innovation and scalable software solutions for connected vehicle and fleet operations.

Leads and mentors a cross-functional software engineering team, managing career development, performance, and resource allocation. Owns delivery of operating system features, including timelines, risks, and dependencies. Serves as a technical liaison for customers and stakeholders, translating operational capabilities into software requirements. Interprets aerospace and safety-critical standards into actionable engineering work while ensuring compliant, secure delivery.

Leads and develops software engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and design to deliver secure, scalable, reliable features; guides architecture and engineering best practices; improves processes, velocity, and execution; and translates customer and business needs into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on leadership in a high-growth startup environment and ownership of engineering culture, performance, reliability, and talent development.

Lead three Agile engineering teams (Inventory, Discovery, Identity Graph) owning technical roadmap, architecture, and delivery of cloud-native microservices. Mentor engineers, drive scalable distributed system design on Azure/AWS, promote AI-assisted development tools, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to launch new features and teams.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

The Engineering Manager at GiveCampus will oversee engineering pods, manage personnel, contribute to technical architecture, and support product delivery in an agile environment.

Lead the Engineering Enablement team owning CI/CD, testing, dependency management, developer tooling and AI-partnered development. Define productivity metrics, drive cross-org change, grow engineers, and run internal platform as a product to improve developer feedback loops and observability.

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a team in architecting and maintaining Wikimedia's data feeds, focusing on collaboration, technical strategy, team development, and budget management.

Leads a cloud engineering team responsible for Redpanda Cloud, BYOC, Serverless, and Agentic Data Plane initiatives. Owns roadmap delivery, operational excellence, incident response, SLOs, and day-two operations while partnering with Product and customer-facing teams. Coaches, develops, hires, and retains engineers; translates product priorities into engineering plans; manages risks and dependencies; and drives reliable, high-quality launches across distributed cloud services.

Leads the FastAuth software engineering team, owning technical direction, delivery across multiple workstreams, team health, hiring, performance management, and career development. Partners with architects and cross-functional stakeholders on TypeScript, React, .NET, Azure, and event-driven architecture. Drives scaled agile planning, delivery metrics, AI tooling adoption, organizational health, and resolution of cross-team priorities while supporting continuous software delivery.

Leads a small full-stack engineering team maintaining and enhancing a secure, scalable e-signature SaaS platform. Responsibilities include technical direction, mentoring, .NET and Angular development, Azure operations, reliability and performance improvement, incident response, deployment coordination, security and compliance, code reviews, technical debt reduction, and stakeholder collaboration. The role remains hands-on while overseeing platform stability, auditability, observability, and continuous product improvement.

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Lead and grow distributed database-internals engineering teams owning TimescaleDB. Set technical roadmaps, prioritize work with Product, collaborate with Platform, handle customer escalations, mentor engineers, and drive delivery of reliable, high-performance database systems.

Lead and grow a platform and infrastructure engineering team (Infrastructure/SQL reliability, Developer Experience, or Tooling). Hire, mentor, and manage delivery of quarterly roadmaps; remain technically engaged in design and code reviews; partner with product, SRE, and security to drive reliability, observability, CI/CD, and platform strategy. Own toolchain, reliability goals, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team building Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure. Define architecture, drive design reviews, ensure security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations at scale. Guide implementation, incident response, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers and aligning stakeholders across Azure product teams.

Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for the Akamai Compute integration layer. Define strategy and roadmap for customer-facing APIs and backend orchestration, drive architecture shifts to container orchestration and modular designs, improve SDLC, reliability, observability, and security, and partner with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platform services.

Lead engineering team for solar and storage projects, oversee design execution, manage technical evaluations, and provide construction support.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead a large, multidisciplinary software engineering department onsite, managing front-line managers, staffing, recruiting, training, performance management, and technical quality across programs. Drive workforce planning, multi-discipline training (software, hardware, systems), software integration and test, and adherence to engineering processes and Agile practices.

Lead multi-site industrial engineering strategy and continuous improvement across distribution and contract packaging. Manage senior IE team, drive automation and ROI analyses, partner with customers and IT/integrators, establish KPIs and governance, support bid/solutioning, and ensure standardized, safe, efficient operations.

Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering organization (25–30 people across ~5 squads) delivering secure, reliable Active Savings services. Hire and develop talent, ensure agile/DevOps best practices, drive technical excellence, support replatforming, own operational stability, and align engineering outcomes with product and business goals in a regulated banking environment.

Lead and develop an endpoint engineering team managing Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. Oversee device configuration, Intune and Configuration Manager operations, patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance reporting, and Tier III incident response. Partner with cybersecurity, service desk, DEX, and infrastructure to improve endpoint reliability, security, and user experience while driving modernization, automation, and audit-ready operational controls in a regulated banking environment.

Lead and grow a payments engineering team responsible for payment platforms, integrations, tokenization, fraud signals, and reconciliation. Own delivery, production stability, on-call, PCI DSS compliance, vendor relationships, budget, and cross-functional coordination. Drive reliability, incident response, roadmap execution, and measurable improvements in transaction success, latency, and error budgets.