Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design, ship, and support web-based features. Balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and system improvements; perform hands-on code review and triage; collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support; hire, coach, and mentor engineers; and establish processes for iterative, high-quality delivery that meet customer needs and SLAs.

Leads Kent’s Process Safety Engineering team, serving as a technical subject matter expert across onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. Responsibilities include managing engineers, overseeing quality and regulatory compliance, guiding risk assessments and consequence analyses, developing proposals and budgets, supporting business development, mentoring staff, recruiting, and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering work. The role requires client engagement, commercial awareness, professional engineering licensure, and expertise in process safety methodologies, industry standards, and specialized software.

The Senior Manager of Infrastructure Engineering will lead the infrastructure team, design cloud environments, manage Kubernetes, and drive initiatives in classified and unclassified settings.

Lead and grow two Merchants engineering teams (Core and Growth). Own technical direction, architecture (billing, checkout, delivery promise), hiring, roadmap, sprint health, and cross-functional partnerships to deliver reliable merchant-facing product features.

The Engineering Manager will drive the growth of the engineering team, overseeing product development, architectural decisions, and integration of emerging technologies in web3.

Lead the Engineering team responsible for the API, focusing on platform strategy, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development and API performance.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Vanta, you will lead platform engineering teams, set technical direction, manage infrastructure projects, and establish strong engineering culture.

Lead and grow a team focused on developer experience and internal platforms to improve engineering productivity. Define strategy, own CI/CD/build pipelines, tooling, local dev environments, observability, and automation. Partner across engineering, infra, security, SRE, product, and data to reduce friction, create golden paths, measure impact with delivery and reliability metrics, and drive adoption of AI-assisted developer workflows.

Lead a hands-on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps team supporting production SaaS environments across Azure and AWS. Own availability, observability, automation, incident response, on-call operations, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements. Manage employees and contractors, coordinate Sev1 and Sev2 incidents, improve monitoring and deployment practices, report operational health, and expand support for FedRAMP High and other regulated environments.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team across full-stack, data engineering, and BI. Own people management, technical direction (C#/.NET, SQL, Vue 3, Power BI), data pipeline reliability, roadmap delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices to improve velocity, quality, and health outcomes.

Lead and grow a 16-person engineering organization across four AI-focused pods. Set technical direction, guide AI-native product and engineering development, manage cross-team dependencies, and oversee delivery, quality, reliability, security, and velocity. Partner with product, design, and leadership on scalable full-stack systems, mentor engineers and technical leads, and promote strong practices in architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD within a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.

Lead and grow a backend/platform engineering team building API-driven systems and core services. Own technical direction, architecture, reliability, and integration with product, data science, and infrastructure. Hire and mentor engineers, contribute to code and architecture, support incident response, and ensure scalable, secure, production-ready backend APIs and platform tooling.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams across Supabase, owning people management, hiring, roadmap and delivery, incident command, SLOs, and cross-team coordination while driving engineering quality and async communication.

Lead and run engineering delivery end-to-end: own planning cadences, track projects, surface risks, command incident responses and run blameless RCAs, own delivery metrics, coach and grow engineers, run hiring pipeline, and enable the founder by removing operational load.

The Engineering Manager will lead and grow engineering teams working on core infrastructure, drive hiring, and ensure alignment in delivery between teams across disciplines.

The Technical Engineering Manager leads cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software delivery, drives technical innovation, mentors engineers, and manages operational efficiency within the banking software sector.

Lead and develop a software engineering team building an AI-powered litigation product. Manage projects, resource allocation, SDLC and compliance (SOC2), mentor engineers, run hiring and interviews, triage incidents, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive continuous improvement.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to develop scalable software solutions, ensuring technical excellence and driving product innovation. Responsibilities include mentoring, overseeing code quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical delivery and integration efforts for a SaaS platform: act as technical SME for APIs, support presales and customer onboarding, triage integration issues, create documentation, and align engineering with sales and operations to scale integrations and improve SLAs.

Leads hardware engineering for Eridu’s AI data center infrastructure solutions spanning silicon, packaging, and systems. The posting provides no specific responsibilities, minimum qualifications, preferred qualifications, technologies, travel requirements, or clearance requirements. The manager will help advance high-performance infrastructure products intended to improve AI data center communication, GPU utilization, cost efficiency, power consumption, and reliability.

Lead multi-site industrial engineering strategy and continuous improvement across distribution and contract packaging. Manage senior IE team, drive automation and ROI analyses, partner with customers and IT/integrators, establish KPIs and governance, support bid/solutioning, and ensure standardized, safe, efficient operations.

Leads DevOps and Data Engineering teams supporting AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, incident response, data platforms, and pipelines. Sets platform strategy, mentors engineers, guides architecture, and manages technical roadmaps. Owns SOC 2 audits and penetration testing, coordinates vendors and auditors, improves security and reliability, and coaches teams on validating AI-assisted development. This player-coach role requires hands-on technical contribution and cross-functional collaboration in a remote environment.