Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads backend engineering teams responsible for policy, billing, and financial ledger platforms. Provides technical architecture guidance, coaches engineers, manages performance, and drives scalable, secure, high-performing systems. Partners with Product and Program Management on delivery, improves engineering processes, oversees sprint and roadmap planning, models capacity, manages resources, and aligns technical execution with business goals.

Leads a full-stack engineering team developing customer-facing SaaS products across web, mobile, backend, and AI systems. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, delivery planning, product health, and measurable customer outcomes. Partners with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to define and ship products, uses production data to guide priorities, and hires, develops, and manages engineering talent.

As an Engineering Manager, lead a team of engineers, coaching their development while ensuring quality results and implementing engineering processes.

Lead a distributed team of engineers overseeing Linux kernel delivery for Ubuntu, ensuring quality, security, and effective collaborative practices.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to optimize engineering and operations processes, ensuring quality managed services while collaborating with customers and stakeholders.

Lead a team in developing scalable data solutions, mentor engineers, manage expectations, and contribute to code. Focus on high-quality software practices.

The Engineering Manager leads the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, overseeing application design, development, and system integration while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement in software quality.

Manage engineering teams and operations for the BootStack service, ensuring quality and timely delivery of managed services while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing team performance.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a remote team, manage MLOps projects, ensure high performance, and mentor engineers while driving product strategies.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers to enhance AppArmor security features, ensuring high quality results and collaboration with stakeholders.

Lead architecture and scalability of cloud-native applications, manage a team of engineers, improve performance, and ensure code quality.

The Engineering Manager will lead teams building a scalable device passport platform, mentor engineers, manage backlog, and contribute coding while ensuring quality and documentation standards.

Leads an autonomous team of 8–10 engineers developing payment acceptance and value-added services such as network tokens, account updater, 3DS, and account validation. Oversees AI-augmented software delivery, architecture, hiring, coaching, roadmap collaboration, reliability, security, incident response, testing, observability, and compliance. Partners cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade financial products and participates in on-call rotations.

Lead two engineering groups building shared foundational services (identity, subscription). Drive technical strategy, architecture, observability, CI/CD, and DORA metrics. Manage people, hiring, cross-team collaboration, product partnerships, and mentor engineers while occasionally prototyping and contributing to code and technical planning.

Manage and develop an engineering team while owning delivery, hiring, performance, technical judgment, and escalation response. Stay hands-on with coding and architecture, use coding agents effectively, improve engineering processes, and help engineers build stronger skills in scoping, estimation, decision-making, and ownership. Balance roadmap priorities with customer commitments and turn recurring issues into lasting product improvements across HumanSignal’s AI data and annotation platforms.

Lead and grow a backend engineering team while staying hands-on: design and build Python/FastAPI services with Temporal and Postgres, own roadmap and delivery, set SLIs/SLOs, drive observability and reliability, run engineering rituals, hire and coach engineers, and improve quality with DevOps and AI tooling.

Lead and grow engineering teams building AI-powered automation (especially LLM/Agentic AI) for compliance. Drive architecture, scalable multi-tenant systems, cloud-based engineering, cross-functional roadmaps, hiring, code quality, incident response, and delivery of high-impact AI/ML products.

Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable microservice-based solutions. Manage Agile processes, collaborate with Product, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in architecture, quality, and team performance. Participate in hiring, backlog planning, and drive measurable improvements in engineering execution.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team to design, ship, and support web-based features. Balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and system improvements; perform hands-on code review and triage; collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and support; hire, coach, and mentor engineers; and establish processes for iterative, high-quality delivery that meet customer needs and SLAs.

Lead Auth0’s SRE team and technical direction, driving reliability roadmaps, scalability, resilience, observability, automation, and incident response for critical cloud-native systems. Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production incidents, establish reliability standards, and mentor distributed engineers. Partner cross-functionally on architecture and strategic planning while developing high-performing teams and improving uptime, operational efficiency, and incident response through automation and SRE best practices.

The Engineering Manager will drive the growth of the engineering team, overseeing product development, architectural decisions, and integration of emerging technologies in web3.

Lead the Engineering team responsible for the API, focusing on platform strategy, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance product development and API performance.

The Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering will lead multiple teams, improve infrastructure processes, and ensure high availability and scalability of services in AWS and multi-Cloud environments.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team across full-stack, data engineering, and BI. Own people management, technical direction (C#/.NET, SQL, Vue 3, Power BI), data pipeline reliability, roadmap delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices to improve velocity, quality, and health outcomes.

Lead and grow a 16-person engineering organization across four AI-focused pods. Set technical direction, guide AI-native product and engineering development, manage cross-team dependencies, and oversee delivery, quality, reliability, security, and velocity. Partner with product, design, and leadership on scalable full-stack systems, mentor engineers and technical leads, and promote strong practices in architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD within a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.