Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead multiple teams in building production quality AI systems, ensuring reliable delivery and effective people management while establishing standards and practices.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, partner with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved, guide technical decisions and architecture, improve processes and remove bottlenecks, balance long-term investments with near-term delivery, and foster ownership and continuous improvement in a remote, distributed environment.

Leads large-scale cluster deployment from rack delivery through production acceptance, including network bring-up, cabling verification, GPU-fabric integration, validation, burn-in, and RCCL performance testing. Manages deployment engineers across concurrent builds, improves deployment velocity, establishes operational playbooks and acceptance gates, coordinates with data center teams and vendors, and drives defect resolution across network, cabling, and hardware partners.

Lead and scale the engineering team, hire engineers, set technical direction, ensure engineering excellence, and foster a high-performance culture.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop an engineering team, ensuring technical quality, fostering growth, and guiding product initiatives, while utilizing AI effectively.

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. Hire and develop engineers, drive technical vision, participate in product strategy, and contribute to cross-engineering initiatives. Ensure operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Lead and grow a backend/infrastructure engineering team building the Experimentation product. Partner with PM and Design to plan and deliver features, collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, drive incident response and operational excellence, and participate in hiring and career development for engineers.

Lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for delivery, technical quality, production reliability, security, privacy, and AI-native development practices. Build scalable teams and managers, establish cross-team delivery systems, partner with Product and Design, oversee observability and incident response, use engineering metrics to guide improvements, and shape hiring, leveling, and talent development.

Leads engineering teams responsible for Twilio’s Porting, Hosting, and A2P Messaging products. Owns roadmap delivery, architecture collaboration, reliability, incident response, security, AI-assisted development, stakeholder alignment, and operational tooling. Recruits, develops, and retains a high-performing engineering organization while balancing customer commitments, platform needs, and operational investments.

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 a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.

Leads a platform engineering team responsible for foundational services supporting Alteryx products. Manages hiring, coaching, performance, career development, delivery, quality, operational readiness, and team culture. Translates strategy into priorities and execution plans, manages risks and dependencies, provides technical guidance on scalable backend and platform systems, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver reliable capabilities.

Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.

Leads a full-stack engineering team developing customer-facing SaaS products across web, mobile, backend, and AI systems. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, delivery planning, product health, and measurable customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define and ship products, uses production data to guide priorities, and hires, develops, and manages engineering talent.

Leads engineering for healthcare scheduling and order management platforms. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring software engineers, driving architecture and system design, modernizing legacy applications into scalable SaaS products, resolving complex production issues, and partnering with product and cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities.

Leads a software engineering team building backend services, APIs, and product integrations. Responsibilities include people management, technical direction, architecture reviews, delivery planning, vendor coordination, API and integration standards, testing, observability, release readiness, and production support. The manager partners with Product, DevOps, QA, Security, Program Management, customers, and external technology vendors to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software.

Lead Tailscale’s Developer Relations Engineering team while remaining hands-on with integrations, prototypes, demos, open-source projects, workshops, tutorials, and technical content. Own the team roadmap, coach technical contributors, collaborate cross-functionally on launches and product feedback, and measure developer engagement, activation, adoption, and business impact. The role requires strong software engineering, developer advocacy, program management, communication, and experience working in public developer ecosystems.

Lead architecture and delivery of real-time stream-processing pipelines using Apache Flink and Java. Design scalable, event-driven, low-latency systems; optimize performance and reliability; deploy and manage cloud/containerized services; enforce CI/CD, testing, and observability; troubleshoot production issues; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and mentor engineering teams.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.

Lead a team in developing scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, manage expectations, and contribute to code. Focus on high-quality software practices.

Manage engineering teams and operations for the BootStack service, ensuring quality and timely delivery of managed services while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing team performance.

The Engineering Manager leads the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, overseeing application design, development, and system integration while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement in software quality.