Top Entry Level Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

The job description provides limited role-specific details. The Platform Engineering Manager would presumably lead platform engineering efforts supporting Zocdoc’s digital healthcare marketplace, collaborating with teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Leads 8–12 forward-deployed engineers delivering physical AI systems for defense and government customers. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, overseeing customer deployments and integrations, designing scalable architectures, managing concurrent programs, resolving technical escalations, and ensuring delivery across software, operating systems, hardware, and operational environments.

Lead Stord’s SDET function by establishing test architecture, framework standards, CI-gated automation, and AI-assisted test generation. Build an API-first E2E testing framework spanning web UI, APIs, and Kafka eventing, with resilient handling of asynchronous workflows. Create coverage, regression, load, and performance testing infrastructure; partner with SRE on test environments; and hire, develop, and set the technical bar for the SDET team.

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 a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing products. Own delivery, architecture, reliability, technical quality, production outcomes, engineering standards, and team development. Collaborate across product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions. Coach engineers, manage performance, improve processes and automation, resolve incidents, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, speed, and technical excellence.

Lead and develop a distributed software engineering team building scalable financial products. Own engineering delivery, architecture, system reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and continuous improvement across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to deliver high-quality products quickly.

Lead and manage a frontend, backend, and full-stack engineering team building products for millions of users. Own technical architecture, engineering delivery, reliability, code quality, production operations, and continuous improvement. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to deliver customer outcomes. Coach engineers, manage performance, establish engineering standards, resolve incidents, and build a high-performing engineering culture.

Lead and manage a global engineering team building scalable financial products. Own delivery, architecture, technical quality, reliability, production outcomes, and engineering processes across frontend, backend, and full-stack systems. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams, while coaching engineers, managing performance, resolving incidents, and building a high-performing engineering culture focused on customer and business outcomes.

Lead a distributed engineering team across frontend, backend, and full-stack development. Own delivery, architecture, system reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and engineering processes. Coach and manage engineers, address performance gaps, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes. The role requires staying technically involved through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging, incident resolution, and scaling products used by millions of users.

Lead and develop a distributed engineering team responsible for frontend, backend, and full-stack products. Own technical architecture, engineering delivery, production reliability, system quality, and delivery speed. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous requirements into shipped outcomes. Coach engineers, manage performance, improve engineering processes and tooling, and resolve production issues while building a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Lead a distributed engineering team across frontend, backend, and full-stack development. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and engineering processes for products serving millions of users. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions. Coach engineers, manage performance, raise technical standards, and drive a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing products. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, engineering standards, production outcomes, and continuous improvement across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and AI integrations. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering execution to customer and business outcomes in a fast-moving global environment.

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing financial products. Own delivery, architecture, technical standards, reliability, production outcomes, and engineering processes across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and integrations. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering execution to customer and business outcomes. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, strong ownership, product sense, and effective collaboration across product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams.

Lead the Windows engineering team responsible for ProPresenter desktop software. Own hiring, coaching, performance management, team health, delivery, throughput, cross-functional execution, and continuous process improvement. Provide technical judgment on C#/.NET desktop development and native interop while partnering with product, design, QA, support, and other engineering teams. Promote high-quality, maintainable software, effective AI-assisted development, and outcomes that serve live production operators.

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.

Leads and coaches a team building and maintaining integrations between a cybersecurity platform and third-party technologies. Responsibilities include technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, direct engineering contribution, delivery planning, stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, and team development. The manager balances new integrations, maintenance, customer needs, and technical debt while promoting reliable engineering practices and practical use of AI-assisted development tools.