Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

Lead and grow a compute engineering team building large-scale, multi-tenant compute platforms for AI workloads. Drive strategy, roadmap, architecture, operations, capacity planning, and reliability. Own on-call, incident response, and cost/utilization tradeoffs while partnering across product, security, and customers to deliver a predictable, efficient, and secure compute substrate.

Lead and grow two engineering teams building NVIDIA's internal S3-compatible object storage and data movement tooling. Own roadmap execution, service reliability (SLOs, capacity, incident response), CI/CD and observability, recruiting and mentorship, and cross-team collaboration to ensure high-performance, scalable storage for AI workloads at exabyte scale.

Lead and grow a Data Engineering team to build production data pipelines, medallion datasets, and reusable data products. Drive architecture, engineering standards, design reviews, and cross-functional delivery. Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Platform to enable governed, reliable data foundations for analytics and AI. Mentor engineers and manage multiple concurrent initiatives to deliver predictable outcomes.

Manage a 10–15 person digital/VHDL engineering team: hiring, performance, career development, and process improvement. Act as a technical contributor (~80%) on communications-focused FPGA/VHDL programs (F-35, F-22, CNI, Advanced Communications). Ensure staffing, training, verification, and coordination with HR and programs. On-site at Rancho Carmel; active Secret clearance required.

Lead a 10-20 person software team through full SDLC in an Agile environment. Coordinate with systems, test, DevSecOps, and program leads to deliver real-time/mission-critical embedded software, manage performance metrics, and ensure program and functional objectives are met.

The Manager of Data Engineering leads a team to implement data architecture, manages project execution, and ensures pipeline quality. Responsibilities include team management, setting standards, developing engineering culture, and collaborating with stakeholders.

Lead the Tools & Frameworks engineering team to build shared backend libraries, internal tooling, scalable APIs, and schemas. Define roadmap, balance technical and business priorities, drive architectural excellence (including FHIR translation, monorepo decomposition, data federation, event-streaming), mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

Manage a team developing accelerated image and data compression libraries. Define project goals, roadmap, and scope; ensure execution and delivery; elevate engineering practices; collaborate with internal and external customers and the open-source community while fostering an inclusive, innovative environment.

The Senior Engineering Manager at Planet leads the engineering team, focusing on delivering products for Defense Intelligence. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, refining processes, and collaborating across teams for effective deployment of technology.

Lead a cross-functional product engineering team to deliver personalised, market-leading digital experiences. Recruit, develop and support engineers, own services (maintenance, security, CI/CD), drive technical delivery, partner with product and business stakeholders, and accelerate Contentful-based headless CMS and personalisation capabilities.

Lead and manage an embedded software and cryptographic engineering team to design, develop, integrate, and verify secure, rugged Low-SWaP aerospace products. Drive software architecture, development processes, testing, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver embedded Linux and RTOS-based COMSEC, networking, and FPGA-integrated solutions that meet mission and security requirements.

Lead the engineering team for Rescale's core cloud computing orchestration engine, focusing on AI-assisted development, operational excellence, and scalable distributed systems.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver cloud-native, high-availability education platforms. Combine people management and hands-on development using Agile, CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring. Modernize monoliths, build APIs, ensure reliability at scale, and apply generative AI and responsible AI practices to improve user engagement and product outcomes.

Lead and grow a small SRE/DevOps team to ensure reliability, scalability, and compliance of an AWS-hosted SaaS platform handling PHI. Accountable for SLOs/SIIs, incident response, IaC (CDK/Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability, cost and capacity planning, security/compliance (HIPAA/SOC2/HITRUST), DR planning, and cross-functional partnership with engineering, product, and security.

Lead and mentor multiple software teams building promotional capabilities. Collaborate with product to define roadmaps, ensure reliable, scalable architectures, enforce development processes, hire, set KPIs/SLAs, and drive performance, scalability, and operational excellence.

Lead a team of engineers managing Postscript's messaging backbone and drive operational excellence in high-volume distributed systems.

Lead and grow a data engineering team to ingest and operationalize healthcare data, ensuring quality, governance, and timely client integrations.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Lead and mentor the Virtual Care backend engineering team, drive roadmap delivery on a two-week Scrum cadence, stay hands-on in code and architecture, own platform operational health (reliability, on-call, incidents), and ensure security and compliance for PHI-handling clinical software while reporting progress and risks to cross-functional and executive stakeholders.

Lead multiple Agile development teams to deliver enterprise software; own architecture and technical design; drive end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, champion AI-first innovation, ensure release quality, partner with product, and improve operational excellence.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead and optimize data transformation projects using AI, collaborate with various teams, and ensure project delivery while balancing technical debt and new features.

Lead a cross-functional engineering team to design and deliver SMART on FHIR applications embedded in EMR workflows. Champion AI-driven, agent-assisted development, collaborate with data engineering on Python/dbt/SQL pipelines, implement engineering best practices, and manage hiring, mentorship, and stakeholder communication while ensuring quality, reliability, and interoperability.

Lead a hands-on cloud engineering support team to drive application support, automation, developer enablement, and process improvements. Manage issues, backlogs, Jira workflows, stakeholder expectations, team coaching, and initiatives to improve system stability and developer efficiency.