Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead and grow a Targeted Collection Engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable data collection and warehousing systems. Own a managed attribution browser, set technical strategy, partner with product and cross-functional teams, and ensure data reliability, security, and scale for national security customers.

Lead and grow the engineering team owning the warehouse management system (WMS), vault, and fulfillment platforms. Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and integrations; partner with product; provide architectural guidance; champion AI/LLM tooling; establish operating standards, incident response, and observability; recruit and mentor engineers and technical leads.

Lead the Platform Firmware team at Samsara, driving hardware program execution, managing firmware engineers, and collaborating with various stakeholders for high-quality hardware delivery.

Leads a product design engineering team developing space solar panels and wings from concept through production release. Oversees technical design decisions, product configurations, project plans, quality, cost, schedule, suppliers, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and test engineering. Manages and mentors employees, drives design-process improvements, supports compliance with standards, and fosters an inclusive, psychologically safe, performance-oriented workplace.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead a global network engineering team to design, scale, and operate large-scale IP and optical backbone and hybrid cloud connectivity. Own technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy, automation, vendor relationships, hardware/software integration, testing, tooling, DDoS mitigation, operational excellence, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations while ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

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 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 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.

As the Automation & Controls Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for factory automation strategy, oversee project execution, and ensure safety compliance in manufacturing processes.

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.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead the Cloud & Platform engineering function, mentor engineers, and enhance system reliability while maintaining hands-on architecture involvement.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Lead an 8-12 person cross‑discipline firmware products team delivering motorcycle firmware, battery performance, and test. Own end-to-end delivery, field instrumentation, CI/CD, safety-critical releases, cross-functional alignment, and coach engineers while driving AI tool adoption to accelerate learning from real-world use.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Leads the Ads Campaign Management engineering team responsible for Netflix’s advertising order management and campaign execution systems. The manager sets technical direction, prioritizes work, hires and develops engineers, and partners with sales, ad operations, product, measurement, and engineering teams. The role oversees scalable backend and frontend applications, campaign workflows, monitoring, automation, targeting, budgeting, and optimization capabilities while navigating ambiguity and evolving advertising requirements.

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 and grow an engineering team building high-throughput, low-latency signals and targeting platforms for Netflix Ads. Partner with ML teams, design real-time and batch signal integrations, manage targeting metadata and governance, drive product and technical strategy, hire and mentor engineers, and deliver scalable production systems that enable privacy-forward audience and contextual targeting.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building core data and access management platforms for Netflix content. Partner with product and stakeholders to define strategy, drive adoption, ensure reliability (24x7 on-call), coach and hire engineers, influence cross-functional decisions, prioritize technical investment and reduce ambiguity, and champion inclusive team culture and measurable system health indicators.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building the Ads Finance platform: implement revenue recognition, billing, invoicing, data validation, and compliance (SOX/audit). Drive product-focused delivery, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, prioritization, and execution to scale automated, secure finance systems for ad monetization.