Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead and hands-on manage the Infrastructure team owning Upside's cloud platform: drive AWS architecture (cell-based), AI-assisted deployment tooling, security, CI/CD, observability, operational excellence, and cross-functional coordination to enable reliable, scalable, and secure platform services.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmap delivery for customer-facing console, APIs, and developer workflows. Plan roadmaps, drive system architecture, ensure quality/reliability, run execution processes, hire and mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and incorporate customer feedback to improve product adoption and performance.

Lead design and development of aerostructures from concept through production, ensuring structural integrity, manufacturability, and system integration. Manage cross-functional teams, apply composite and metallic structural knowledge, oversee release processes, and support testing and production readiness for autonomous aircraft.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to develop innovative Coffee & Beverage products, ensuring KPI critical subsystem designs and smooth execution from concept to production while representing engineering in high-level discussions.

Hiring an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams, ensuring software delivery and operational excellence in mental healthcare. Requires strong technical skills and leadership experience.

As the Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to build and maintain infrastructure services while ensuring security, reliability, and efficiency across software delivery in various environments.

Seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team, ensuring technical excellence in consumer-facing applications while promoting a strong engineering culture. Requires extensive software engineering experience and people management skills.

The Engineering Manager leads a team in delivering reliable software solutions, blending technical contributions with team leadership, managing projects, and improving processes.

Lead the design and implementation of ML training systems, manage a team, promote engineering culture, and drive product development.

Lead a full-stack engineering team for core Enterprise product development, balancing management with technical contributions in a remote-first setting.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team building communications infrastructure: document generation, PDF templating, and multi-channel notifications (email, SMS, mail). Own architecture, integrations with providers (SendGrid, Twilio, Lob), delivery reliability, observability, compliance/audit trails, and template onboarding. Act as player/coach contributing ~20% coding while driving roadmap, operations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead and grow a Data Foundations engineering team building high-throughput, reliable data platforms. Drive architecture and delivery for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, and query layers (ClickHouse, CDC, event streaming), ensure operability across SaaS/Dedicated/Self-Managed/Cells deployments, hire and coach engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing reporting and search capabilities.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.

Lead and grow a 5–10 engineer autonomy integration team for V-BAT/X-BAT, owning delivery, hiring, mentoring, and technical health. Drive integration of autonomy software (mission behaviors, VTOL transitions, multi-agent coordination), collaborate tightly with aircraft, perception, and capability teams, run ICDs and field tests, and support live exercises and deployments (20–30% travel).

Lead and grow a team of autonomy engineers to stand up autonomy on novel platforms (space, maritime, rotorcraft), own delivery from design through fielding, write and integrate latency-sensitive autonomy code, coordinate with platform and cross-functional teams, support live tests and deployments, and evolve R&D efforts into longer-term programs.

Lead the Growth pod owning UX and front-end product engineering as a player-coach. Contribute code initially, then manage sprint planning, delivery tracking, roadmap trade-offs, and architecture decisions. Ship full-stack features (TypeScript front- and back-end), raise engineering craft, grow team capacity through coaching and delegation, and proactively surface risks tied to business goals.

Lead a platform engineering team building integrations with insurers, EHRs, banks and the platform layer (CI/CD, cloud, observability, security). Combine management (planning, prioritization, hiring, risk management) with hands-on backend and infrastructure engineering, shipping code and setting technical direction across integrations and platform services.

Lead and grow a DevOps team responsible for CI/CD, deployment, observability, IaC, and runtime infrastructure. Drive platform reliability with SLOs, build self-service automation, evolve release engineering and supply-chain security, and partner with Security, Product, and application teams to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

The Senior Manager will spearhead tax innovation projects, provide strategic leadership, collaborate on AI-enabled services, and drive modernization initiatives, ensuring operational excellence and client engagement.

Lead and grow a small Platform Testing team to define and execute a testing strategy that improves developer velocity and product reliability. Build cost-effective QA environments, implement service-to-service and configuration-driven testing, promote testing best practices, apply LLM-powered workflows, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders while managing hiring, coaching, and performance.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

Lead Privacy Engineering strategy and execution to build scalable privacy infrastructure and controls (discovery, classification, access, retention, deletion, lineage, encryption). Hire and develop engineers, partner cross-functionally to translate regulatory/privacy requirements into technical controls, conduct privacy reviews, risk assessments, and threat modeling, and define metrics to communicate progress and risks.

Lead and grow one or more engineering teams building bank-critical platform systems (payments, funding, reporting, integrations). Translate regulatory, product, and operational needs into technical plans, drive architecture and execution for reliable, auditable infrastructure, manage cross-functional dependencies, build controls and change-management processes, and hire and develop engineering talent.

Lead two mobile pods (Platform and Product) to define cross-platform strategy, improve CI/build systems and performance SLOs, deliver customer-facing features, manage and grow ~13-14 engineers, drive platform migrations, and maintain operational KPIs and engineering quality.