Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead the Methods and Insights engineering teams, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery, operational health, architecture, and developer experience. Partner with product leaders and founders to sequence work, manage risk, improve engineering processes, and ship reliable systems. Build AI-agent development practices, shared components, CI gates, conventions, and harnesses that help engineers move quickly while maintaining quality.

Leads a global Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across Azure-based SaaS platforms. Establishes SRE standards, develops team capabilities, improves automation and observability, leads incident and disaster recovery efforts, and partners cross-functionally on platform resilience, governance, capacity, and cloud optimization. Requires strong technical leadership, experience with large-scale SaaS environments, and expertise in reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and operational maturity.

Leads and develops an electrical engineering team while remaining hands-on with switchgear, switchboard, and power distribution design. Reviews drawing packages and BOMs, assigns project ownership, manages delivery commitments, provides technical direction, supports customer and Sales communication, and ensures compliance with electrical standards. The role also contributes to design standards, manages capacity and technical risks, and collaborates with Project Management, Production, Procurement, Quality, Sales, and Test teams.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Leads a site reliability engineering team and owns the reliability, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations roadmap. Establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability metrics while advancing self-healing systems, AIOps, CI/CD, chaos engineering, incident response, capacity planning, and ITSM/ITOM integrations. Develops engineers, manages vendors, partners with security and governance teams, and drives adoption of engineering-led reliability practices across technology organizations.

Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and infrastructure supporting Akamai’s cloud hypervisor platforms. Improve observability, automate infrastructure processes, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call service restoration. The role requires deep Linux, kernel, virtualization, ARM hardware, large-scale infrastructure, DevOps, and configuration-management expertise.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, coding, cloud design, DevOps, and technical problem-solving. Oversees policy administration, claims, web, and mobile platforms; drives Azure-based modernization, CI/CD, engineering standards, security, scalability, and reliable delivery. Collaborates with Product, Claims, Policy, and Operations teams in an Agile environment.

Designs, administers, and improves Microsoft 365 and Power Platform environments, including Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot, Intune, Defender, and Purview. Leads platform projects from requirements through adoption and support, builds Power Platform automations and AI-enabled solutions, develops integrations using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Azure, and APIs, and partners with security, IAM, compliance, and AI teams to ensure effective governance, security, and operational readiness.

Leads a distributed product engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance, delivery, quality, incident response, and production releases. The manager partners with Product, writes and ships code weekly using C# and .NET, reviews pull requests, and advances AI-assisted engineering practices. The role requires experience operating regulated systems, managing engineers across time zones, and building secure, reliable software for a healthcare-related SaaS platform.

Lead a small Infrastructure and Agentic Platform team while serving as a hands-on engineering manager. Own AWS infrastructure, data platforms, security, compliance, reliability, and AI-native software development workflows. Mentor engineers, guide hiring, define the roadmap, and build tools for planning, coding, testing, monitoring, and triage. The role requires balancing AI acceleration with engineering quality, cost, security, and operational reliability in a healthcare AI environment.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Leads and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead the automation strategy for a live AAA mobile game, building the team, frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates needed for frequent releases. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring, designing automated UI/API/mobile tests, integrating testing into CI/CD, establishing metrics and observability, providing hands-on technical leadership, and partnering across Engineering, QA, Product, Live Operations, and external teams to improve release quality.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Leads Prosci’s IT engineering team and owns delivery and production operations across Azure, Microsoft 365, enterprise AI, security controls, data infrastructure, and a customer-facing enrollment platform. The role manages engineers, vendors, cloud operations, incident response, capacity, disaster recovery, compliance, change control, and the transition of outsourced work in-house. It also establishes team processes, on-call operations, delivery cadence, and partnerships with enterprise systems, security, and service desk teams.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Lead a team of firmware and ML engineers developing, optimizing, and deploying computer vision and AI models on edge devices. Provide hands-on technical leadership for embedded systems, low-latency processing, and resource-constrained hardware. Partner with Product, Hardware, and Full-stack teams to deliver products from concept through mass production, shape technical roadmaps, and hire and develop engineering talent.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

Leads a 10–20-person Network Engineering team responsible for managed Wi-Fi network configuration, deployment, validation, quality, resource planning, and customer escalations. The role combines people leadership with approximately 20% hands-on network engineering, including design, installation, turn-up, and validation. It also drives process improvements, automation, documentation, training, budgeting, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery performance. Approximately 10% travel is required across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Leads a 10–20-person Network Engineering team responsible for post-sales managed Wi-Fi configuration, deployment, installation, and validation. Balances staffing, schedules, quality, customer requirements, productivity, and financial objectives while contributing approximately 20% hands-on engineering work. Drives process improvements, automation, training, documentation, escalation resolution, and cross-functional implementation efforts. The role requires extensive IP networking expertise, leadership experience, vendor platform knowledge, and approximately 10% travel across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.