Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Manage and grow a 24/7 Fleet Reliability operations team responsible for provisioning, validating, and troubleshooting server nodes. Drive automation, observability, incident management, onboarding, documentation, and process improvements to scale fleet delivery and reliability while supporting high‑criticality, time‑sensitive operations.

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.

The Lead Architect will develop backend services, oversee integration with imaging facilities, set coding standards, mentor engineers, and ensure fault-tolerant systems while adhering to healthcare data standards.

Lead a small team (2-4) as a hands-on engineering manager, owning sprint delivery, team health, performance management, and incident response. Contribute to a TypeScript codebase, partner with Product and Design, uphold operational and compliance standards for money-touching products, and champion AI-forward automation, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to ship reliable software.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead and mentor a team building LeafLink’s eCommerce marketplace. Provide technical leadership, set architecture and delivery plans, coordinate cross-team dependencies, manage incidents, recruit talent, and balance product delivery with platform health, scalability, security, and developer productivity.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Lead and grow a small software engineering team building MongoDB's distributed query engine. Mentor engineers, contribute code, guide architecture and feature design, remove blockers, coordinate dependencies, plan hiring and resources, estimate delivery timelines, and set team culture to deliver new query features and performance improvements.

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

Lead technical and strategic direction for tax innovation platforms. Oversee large-scale projects, drive modernization and AI-enabled capabilities, ensure operational excellence, mentor engineering leaders, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and deliver innovative, scalable enterprise/SaaS solutions to solve complex client challenges.

Manage and grow a Cloud Operations Engineering team to ensure fleet reliability and customer environment health across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Own operational outcomes (SLOs, error budgets, incidents), on-call rotations, audit/compliance contributions (FedRAMP, SOC2), cloud cost management, and cross-team coordination while partnering with architects and security. Hire, develop, and report on team performance and risk to engineering leadership.

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

Lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery for core platform domains (authentication, tenancy, APIs, messaging, tooling). Build and coach platform engineering teams, drive cross-team adoption, ensure reliability, observability, security, and cloud cost efficiency for multi-tenant SaaS platform capabilities.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

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

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

The Engineering Manager will lead the transformation of the company's SaaS platform into an AI-native environment, mentor a team of engineers, and drive strategic initiatives aligned with business goals.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

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 develop distributed software engineering teams; define and execute platform roadmap, architecture, and standards; improve delivery, reliability, and developer productivity; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver scalable cloud-native platform services and shared capabilities.

Lead and grow a developer experience team responsible for monorepo strategy, CI/CD, build systems, developer environments, and onboarding. Improve engineering velocity, CI reliability, and developer trust; establish standards, adopt AI-assisted workflows, and partner with infra/ML teams to remove friction for large-scale AI research.

Lead a small engineering team as a hands-on technical manager: design, develop, and deploy core product functionality; grow and scale the team; collaborate with product, data, and clinical partners; enforce software development and deployment best practices.

Lead and grow a Support Engineering team that resolves complex product issues, integrations, and data workflows. Define escalation and triage practices, build scalable diagnostics and internal tools, collaborate closely with Engineering and Product, mentor engineers on debugging, logs, and database querying, and create repeatable processes to improve customer outcomes and support efficiency.

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.