Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads a Quality Engineering team supporting manufacturing, engineering, and product quality. Oversees manufacturing and design controls, nonconformance management, risk management, MRB activities, corrective actions, NPI quality planning, documentation, and data-driven product improvement. Partners cross-functionally with quality and manufacturing teams, manages escalations, ensures compliance, and develops quality personnel and processes.

Leads and develops a team of software engineers while balancing people management with technical leadership. Responsibilities include coaching, performance management, roadmap planning, architecture and code-quality guidance, hiring, staffing, risk management, incident response, stakeholder communication, and cross-team engineering initiatives. The manager partners with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable software and foster a collaborative, accountable culture.

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.

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.

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 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.

Lead and grow a distributed engineering team that builds and operates Maestro, Netflix's orchestration platform. Partner cross-functionally to deliver strategy and adoption, ensure reliability at massive scale (24x7 on-call, 99.95%+ availability), prioritize technical debt and foundational work, and drive timely results while improving stability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Lead an engineering team building real-time live ad insertion infrastructure and tooling across server and client models. Own reliability for 24/7 linear streams and high-stakes live events, define technical roadmap (SCTE ingestion, manifest stitching, ad pod management), set on-call/incident response, hire and develop engineers, and coordinate cross-functionally with ad ops, broadcast engineering, CDN and ad serving partners.

Lead and grow an engineering team building ad measurement systems: first‑party measurement (conversion/brand/geo lift, incrementality), causal inference and attribution, scalable data pipelines and measurement APIs, collaborate cross‑functionally, hire and develop talent, and drive product and executional excellence in a fast paced environment.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Leads the day-to-day management and delivery of internal and partner engineering teams. Responsibilities include assigning work, unblocking engineers, maintaining scoped tickets in Linear, coordinating shared workstreams, shaping technical direction with product and engineering teams, managing performance and growth, and supporting hiring and team structure. The role also champions spec-driven development and AI-assisted engineering practices while managing distributed engineers across time zones.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team, provide technical guidance, drive architecture and engineering excellence, manage sprint execution, collaborate on product roadmaps, ensure scalable and reliable systems, foster continuous improvement, and support recruiting and onboarding. The role requires balancing technical strategy with business impact while developing high-performing engineers.

Leads the engineering team building Webflow’s code-native platform, including high-fidelity visual-to-code workflows and coding-agent integration. Sets technical and product direction, shapes architecture, owns developer experience, sequences platform and customer-facing work, and partners across product, design, and engineering. This player-coach role includes architecture reviews, prototyping, hands-on contributions, hiring, coaching, and developing a high-performing technical culture.

Lead and develop the AgentControl Evaluations engineering team while providing technical leadership for offline evaluations, playgrounds, LLM-as-judges, and annotated datasets. Partner with Product and Design on roadmap planning, own feature delivery, improve reliability and incident response, coordinate shared infrastructure, communicate progress and risks, foster collaborative team norms, and participate in hiring and career development.

The Digital Control Systems Engineering Manager will lead a team in designing and integrating Grid Automation projects, ensuring high-quality engineering solutions and project delivery while managing resources and collaborating with stakeholders.

Leads ABB’s U.S. Electrification Services Application Engineering organization supporting commercial operations and sales. Responsibilities include developing technical teams, engaging customers, conducting site assessments, creating solutions, overseeing statements of work and job cost estimates, improving proposal processes, managing KPIs, standardizing engineering practices, and implementing digital tools, automation, and technical training to improve quality, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.

Lead and develop mobile engineering teams building Ford’s customer-facing app. Provide technical direction across product development and production, review architectures and designs, establish engineering standards for documentation, code quality, testing, and operational excellence, evaluate mobile technologies, and partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable, scalable experiences.

The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor engineering teams, define technical strategies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project success with a focus on high-quality software delivery.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

Manage and grow a product engineering team at a remote cloud cost-management software company. Lead prioritization, delivery, quality standards, recruiting, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and leadership. Help engineers ship customer-focused features spanning spend management, interfaces, data pipelines, visualizations, and application performance. Coach engineers, remove blockers, promote ownership, and guide tradeoffs between velocity and quality.

Lead and grow a data engineering team responsible for data models, ETL pipelines, synchronization, analytics, integrations, and APIs. Establish the team’s roadmap, architecture, data quality standards, SLOs, and operational practices. Hire and develop engineers, guide technical decisions, and collaborate with product and Salesforce leaders to build a reliable data platform supporting enterprise integrations and AI agents.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Leads a distributed frontend engineering team responsible for Firefox Desktop user interface improvements. The manager drives technical decisions, project delivery, quality, monitoring, maintainability, engineering processes, hiring, mentoring, feedback, and team development. They collaborate with Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science, manage risks and trade-offs, communicate with senior leadership, and deliver user-facing experiences across concurrent initiatives.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing code and providing technical direction. Owns agile rituals, production feature delivery, technical architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product and design teams, supports enterprise customers, and drives adoption of AI throughout software development. The role focuses on healthcare software, patient data collection, regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and integrations using HL7 and FHIR.