Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead a globally distributed QA team to define QA strategy, governance, and audit-ready processes for regulated banking clients. Drive test automation, CI/release gating, regression coverage, incident response, and partner with Professional Services for UAT and integration validation while reporting quality KPIs.

Lead and coach a product engineering team building and operating Java microservices. Own delivery, technical excellence, CI/CD, cloud-native design, and service resilience. Line-manage engineers, collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Operations, and drive predictable, product-led outcomes.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

Lead and mentor a team building Twilio's next-generation low-latency, high-throughput media processing stack. Drive architecture and technical decisions, balance reliability with feature delivery, own performance and reliability targets, collaborate across product and platform teams, reduce technical debt, and establish engineering excellence in testing, code quality, and operations for global real-time media services.

Lead and hands-on manage the Catalog engineering team, own sprint delivery and architecture, write and ship full‑stack production code using AI-assisted tooling, hire and grow engineers, and drive collaboration with product and design while shaping an AI-driven SDLC.

Lead and grow a Data Engineering organization to design, build, and operate scalable, governed data pipelines and enterprise data products. Define technical strategy and roadmap, improve data quality, reliability, observability and governance, partner with cross-functional teams, and drive platform evolution to enable analytics, ML, reporting, and self-service insights.

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 a small engineering team as a hands-on technical manager to design, develop, and deploy core product features. Hire, scale, and mentor engineers while ensuring high quality, security, and best practices. Collaborate with Product, Data, and Clinical partners and drive execution for a new health plans and systems vertical and Bend Health platform work.

Lead one or more engineering teams owning mission, execution, code quality, and morale. Partner with product managers on roadmaps, remove roadblocks, improve processes, coach and grow engineers, and drive innovation while delivering high-traffic full-stack or data applications at scale.

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.

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

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, secure SaaS applications. Drive development best practices (code review, testing, CI/CD), align technical execution with business goals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and design, monitor KPIs, and integrate generative AI tools to improve productivity. Oversee hiring, training, performance evaluations, and cross-functional collaboration in an Agile environment.

Hands-on engineering leader who writes and reviews production code while managing a small team. Architects scalable systems, drives engineering and product strategy, improves developer workflows, supports pre-sales and integrations, defines KPIs, and partners cross-functionally to deliver high-quality SaaS products with evolving AI capabilities.

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 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 and grow a full-stack application engineering team delivering end-to-end product features (React frontend, Kotlin-backed services). Own hiring, coaching, delivery, architecture, technical debt, quality, and cross-team execution. Drive product-aligned priorities, unblock hard problems, improve processes, and ensure operational ownership and predictable delivery.

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 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 an engineering team building StrongDM's just-in-time proxy and control-plane platform. Manage delivery of distributed systems in Go across AWS/multi-cloud, oversee code/design reviews (security, TLS/mTLS, credential brokering), translate roadmaps into execution plans, hire and develop engineers, and collaborate with product, architects, and DevOps/SRE to ensure secure, reliable platform operations and compliance with policy-as-code standards.

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 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.

Lead one or more engineering teams building and operating Airbnb's global payments platform. Set technical strategy, prioritize work, partner cross-functionally, drive reliability and compliance, reduce technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and deliver high-impact payment features and operational excellence at scale.

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.

Manage a team of cloud engineers to govern and optimize a multi-cloud environment while implementing security frameworks and managing vendor relationships.

As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team in enhancing content workflows through automation and AI, develop scalable solutions, and manage cross-functional collaboration.