Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform engineering team, overseeing high-throughput ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, reliability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Partner with product and engineering teams on roadmap planning, technical tradeoffs, and delivery. Coach engineers, manage performance and career growth, establish collaborative team practices, and participate in hiring.

Leads a process engineering team supporting optical thin film manufacturing. Oversees process development, equipment and tooling implementation, manufacturing support, data analysis, quality compliance, continuous improvement, technology transitions, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. Manages engineering staff, performance, training, hiring, and resources while ensuring adherence to ISO, EHS, export control, intellectual property, and company requirements.

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.

Manages the systems engineering discipline and team within an aerospace organization. Responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, workload planning, technical guidance, requirements traceability, systems safety, test planning, flight-test data acquisition, performance evaluation, and continuous process improvement. The role supports product development from concept through production, coordinates with customers and engineering functions, and develops team capabilities and career paths. This is a fully on-site position in San Luis Obispo, California.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

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.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow the mechanical engineering team for avionics in X-BAT aircraft and ground vehicles. Own architecture, thermal, harnessing, and electro-mechanical design from concept through manufacturing, partnering with electrical, RF, PCB, reliability, supply chain, structures, and manufacturing teams to deliver flight-critical systems.

Lead and grow the mechanical engineering team responsible for avionics packaging, thermal, harnessing, and electro-mechanical design for the X-BAT aircraft and ground vehicle. Drive architecture, cross-functional integration, manufacturing readiness, and deliver flight-critical systems that endure harsh environments while hiring and mentoring engineering leads.

Lead and mentor a team integrating and validating the Hivemind autonomy platform across SIL, HIL, and flight environments. Drive architecture and tooling for integration, review logs/telemetry/rosbags, triage cross-system defects, partner with Engineering/Product/Program teams, and ensure capabilities meet product and customer requirements while remaining hands-on in system integration and debugging.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

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 an engineering team responsible for scalable cloud platform foundations and developer infrastructure. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, establish goals, prioritize resources, and guide execution through ambiguity. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to build standardized contact solutions for CRM use cases across business verticals. Drive reliability through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and scalable cloud operations while contributing to engineering-wide initiatives.

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.

Leads the engineering team’s daily operations, technical execution, staffing, resource allocation, quality processes, and project delivery. Provides technical guidance, reviews designs and proposals, supports development and production activities, coordinates with product and business stakeholders, and ensures adherence to engineering standards. The role requires extensive embedded software and space-qualified hardware experience, multi-project management, and eligibility for U.S. security clearance.

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.

Lead the Content Foundations engineering team and evolve Scribd’s high-scale document ingestion platform into a real-time, AI-native system. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, integrating AI and ML capabilities, overseeing distributed data infrastructure, ensuring security and operational reliability, managing the roadmap, hiring and developing backend and AI data engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders across the organization.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

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.