Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Diego, CA

As a Lead Front-End Engineer, you'll own UI architecture, mentor team members, manage technical initiatives, and drive AI-powered feature development.

Lead and mentor an engineering team to deliver high-quality SaaS features end-to-end. Drive architecture and technical decisions, manage execution and support escalations, improve CI/CD and observability, track delivery KPIs, and participate in hiring and career development to scale the team in a fast-growing startup environment.

The Mobile Engineering Manager will lead a team of Android and iOS engineers, manage app feature development, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure project delivery in wearable technology.

Lead two engineering squads building Breezeway's property operations product. Hire, coach, and grow engineers; own planning, delivery, and cross-squad coordination; set technical direction, architecture guidance, and engineering quality; partner with Product and Design to translate roadmap into executed work.

Lead and mentor systems, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams to deliver electro-mechanical systems for military applications. Oversee requirements, design, V&V, production processes, configuration management, budgeting, resource allocation, and customer-facing reviews. Coordinate with PMO and cross-discipline managers to meet program milestones and ensure production quality and delivery.

Lead a 6–8 engineer team building an SSH client, web app, and backend services for an agentic AI platform. Own architecture, hiring, process, roadmap partnership with product, incident response, and mentorship while remaining ~20% hands-on.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Lead one or more backend engineering teams responsible for core platform services, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems. Drive operating cadence, technical direction, scalability, reliability, and debt reduction. Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in architectural decisions, hire and develop engineers, and ensure predictable delivery and high-quality solutions at scale.

The Engineering Manager will lead a cross-continent team to enhance engineering productivity using AI tools, collaborate across departments, and deliver innovative product experiences.

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 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.

Lead a small team owning GFiber's multi‑terabit backbone design, reliability, capacity planning, and observability across IP and optical layers. Drive DWDM metro/long‑haul transport design, telemetry pipelines, automation tooling (Go/Python), and align team strategy with organizational goals while remaining hands‑on in design and code.

Lead a 10-20 person software test team through the full SDLC in an Agile environment. Manage test automation, budgets, schedules, cross-functional integration with systems engineering and DevSecOps, and provide functional people management. Ensure product quality, reporting, and compliance while supporting contract mission objectives. On-site in San Diego with DoD Secret clearance required.

Lead technical execution for a portfolio of connectivity and network programs for advanced fighter platforms. Oversee program baselines, EAC reviews, staffing, risk and EVM, drive engineering execution strategy, workforce planning, and ensure quality and compliance across development, production, and sustainment phases.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams to execute programs using Agile and SDLC practices. Responsibilities include technical planning, system integration, verification/validation, proposal support, staffing and resource planning, process/tool improvements, procurement of equipment, documentation, and supporting day-to-day software center activities. Requires active DoD Secret clearance and ability to obtain SAP/PAR.

Lead Reliability and Fault Diagnostics teams to analyze system reliability, characterize field failures, improve prognostics/maintainer tools, coordinate cross-functional engineering and suppliers, serve as technical authority, present findings to leadership/customers, manage SOW/CAM duties, and support proposals and continuous improvement.

Lead and manage the Product Support Technical Integration team to align multi-OU priorities, ensure high-quality engineering analyses, mentor staff, serve as CAM for work packages, coordinate cross-functional activities, present technical status to leadership/customers, support proposals, and drive continuous improvement. On-site role with up to 25% travel and security clearance requirements.

Leads a global network engineering team in designing and operating secure networks. Responsible for network infrastructure, security initiatives, and continuous improvement of services.

Lead a ~10-person DevOps/software engineering team to develop and maintain production tools for flight/mission-critical systems. Manage budget, schedule, risk, Agile metrics, EVMS, and deliverables as work-package manager. Provide technical guidance, functional management, staffing, and collaborate with systems engineering, test automation, and software teams. Dual-hatted technical DevOps lead and manager role requiring on-site work and security access.

Lead and grow a mobile engineering squad building highly-available, distributed SaaS products. Drive technical execution, mentor engineers, run Agile ceremonies, hire, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, Security, Data, and GTM to deliver roadmap outcomes.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of software engineers, collaborating with data scientists and geologists to build robust data systems for mineral exploration. Responsibilities include planning and prioritizing projects, coaching team members, and contributing as an individual on critical tasks.

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building custom and SaaS solutions for Vertical Brands. Partner with Product and Design to deliver roadmap initiatives, ensure technical excellence, manage delivery and resources, drive data-driven product improvements, and mentor engineers to build capabilities and high-performing culture.

Lead and manage SRE/DevOps teams to drive reliability roadmaps, oversee incident management, ensure cloud-native infrastructure scalability, security, and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to align reliability with business goals.

Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to deploy Cohere's North platform into private cloud and on-premises environments. Own technical delivery and customer success, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Sales, optimize K8s services (OpenSearch, databases), define GPU/CPU scaling, and build scalable processes and tooling.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor a team of engineers while driving architectural decisions and hands-on coding. The role involves managing technical execution, collaboration with product teams, and fostering a culture of excellence within the engineering team.