Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for CUDA Math Libraries platform expansion and readiness. Own integration, qualification, compliance, validation, performance testing, defect triage, and technical roadmaps across specialized platforms. Collaborate with library, DevOps, QA, compiler, CUDA, release, and platform teams. The role requires hands-on high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, performance optimization, and software engineering leadership.

Leads software engineering for tax technology solutions, overseeing architecture, coding, testing, deployment, project delivery, and AI-enabled innovation. Advises stakeholders, translates tax needs into scalable applications and microservices, evaluates technical tradeoffs, manages risks, and coaches engineering teams. Requires client collaboration, clear communication, systems thinking, and the ability to guide teams through complex and ambiguous situations.

Leads a team of 10–15 software engineers responsible for Atlassian Government Cloud release infrastructure and processes. Owns release planning, readiness, go/no-go decisions, cutover, verification, rollback, incident escalation, and compliance. Defines a multi-quarter roadmap covering trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, automated gates, and rollback automation. Partners across engineering, product, QA, SRE, security, and compliance while coaching team members and improving release reliability.

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Leads engineering teams supporting hybrid cloud architecture, automated data centers, multi-cloud environments, and Tier-3 infrastructure operations. Oversees DevSecOps adoption, Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD, observability, security controls, and federal compliance with NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP. Manages technical roadmaps, quality plans, service levels, stakeholder communications, hiring, mentoring, and operational reporting across mission-critical government environments.

Lead two or more software engineering teams building and operating TopstepX, a real-time trading platform. Responsibilities include coaching and developing engineers, hiring and capacity planning, prioritizing delivery amid changing needs, and ensuring system availability, performance, quality, and resilience. The role requires leadership of production systems, incident response, observability, reliability investments, and collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

Lead a new product pod from concept to market while remaining hands-on in Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Azure. Set technical direction, design architecture, write production code, instrument the member funnel, and deliver secure, scalable software. Hire and coach senior engineers, manage delivery and incidents, collaborate across product and business teams, and build HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant systems in a regulated healthcare environment.

Lead project engineering for complex steam turbine capital parts, upgrades, valve solutions, and engineering studies. Manage internal teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and cross-functional interfaces to deliver safe, compliant, high-quality engineering documentation on schedule and within budget. Coordinate project baselines, design reviews, prioritization, escalations, and process improvements across industrial, nuclear, and fossil turbine fleets.

Lead delivery of US network infrastructure initiatives while maintaining hands-on technical involvement. Set engineering and operational standards, review designs, manage incidents, drive cross-team decisions, and build automation, observability, reliability, provisioning, and CI/CD practices. Coordinate across engineering and international teams, turn operational issues into prioritized backlogs, and ensure tools, workflows, documentation, and runbooks are adopted. Help establish a new network infrastructure organization and eventually scale its team and scope.

Leads and develops a team responsible for Microsoft 365 and modern workplace services. Provides hands-on technical leadership across endpoint management, identity, collaboration, automation, security, and device management. Oversees technical design, implementation, troubleshooting, escalations, service operations, roadmaps, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement while partnering with other IT teams and organizational leadership.

Lead and grow an engineering team building decentralized finance products. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing roadmaps and workflows, overseeing React and Solidity development, maintaining architecture and code quality, improving development and deployment processes, managing quality assurance and security, monitoring systems, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Lead 10–12 engineers across secrets and certificate management teams. Own delivery, hiring, performance management, technical direction, reliability, engineering quality, customer collaboration, and process improvement. Remain technically involved through code and design reviews while guiding architecture, security, observability, incident response, and operational excellence across cloud, self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments.

Leads engineers and operations analysts supporting infrastructure architecture, engineering projects, cloud environments, on-premises data centers, operational maintenance, and incident management. Oversees quality control, service levels, corrective actions, staffing, communications, administrative activities, and continuous service improvements. Requires extensive IT infrastructure, cloud, converged infrastructure, leadership, and project management experience, along with an active DoD Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Leads and grows the engineering team, oversees customer implementations and product delivery, manages stakeholders, balances customization with core product development, and establishes engineering quality and reliability practices. The role also remains hands-on with TypeScript and Node.js coding, code reviews, debugging, and production support. Experience with AI products, healthcare workflows, HIPAA, EHR integrations, and early-stage startups is valuable.

Lead the Data Streaming engineering sub-team responsible for reliable, scalable ingestion, normalization, and routing of cybersecurity telemetry. Manage and grow a 6–7 engineer team, establish SLOs and on-call processes, maintain schemas and data contracts, improve pipeline reliability and scalability, and collaborate with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory teams. The role requires hands-on expertise with streaming architectures, cloud-native operations, data quality, and pipeline observability.

Leads software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions. Manages hiring, performance, team development, architecture, code reviews, resource planning, engineering standards, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with product managers to align engineering work with product goals and contributes to project delivery, technical decisions, and an inclusive remote-first team culture supporting healthcare technology systems.

Lead Headway’s Infrastructure team, owning AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, LLM platform capabilities, databases, observability, reliability, and incident response. Hire and develop engineers, establish self-service platform practices, reduce incident blast radius, define production readiness for AI workloads, and partner with Security and product engineering teams. The role combines technical leadership, people management, platform strategy, design reviews, and hands-on incident response.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Leads the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

Lead Headway’s Web Platform team of five frontend engineers. Own frontend strategy, design systems, web architecture, accessibility, performance, testing, and agentic UI workflows. Hire and develop engineers, manage performance, align with Design and product teams, define roadmaps and metrics, and advocate for frontend standards company-wide. Remain hands-on with code and AI tools while evolving shared frameworks, tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks.

Leads Site Reliability Engineering teams responsible for reliability, availability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, telemetry, security, and compliance for Microsoft Substrate services in regulated environments. Establishes SLOs and SLIs, drives operational excellence, participates in on-call rotations, leads post-incident improvements, develops senior engineers, and influences cross-organizational engineering strategy.

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.