Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead and grow a platform engineering team to build and operate reliable, scalable cloud platforms and developer infrastructure. Hire and develop engineers, drive technical vision, participate in product strategy, and contribute to cross-engineering initiatives. Ensure operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.

Lead and grow a backend/infrastructure engineering team building the Experimentation product. Partner with PM and Design to plan and deliver features, collaborate with adjacent teams on shared infrastructure, improve reliability and observability, drive incident response and operational excellence, and participate in hiring and career development for engineers.

Lead a team of Technical Solutions Engineers to triage, diagnose, and resolve production issues across Bestow's platform. Own support queue, incident command, SLAs, runbooks, automation, observability, and partner escalation while contributing ~20% production-level code and converting recurring issues into funded roadmap work.

Leads a platform engineering team responsible for foundational services supporting Alteryx products. Manages hiring, coaching, performance, career development, delivery, quality, operational readiness, and team culture. Translates strategy into priorities and execution plans, manages risks and dependencies, provides technical guidance on scalable backend and platform systems, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver reliable capabilities.

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.

Leads engineering for healthcare scheduling and order management platforms. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring software engineers, driving architecture and system design, modernizing legacy applications into scalable SaaS products, resolving complex production issues, and partnering with product and cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities.

Leads a software engineering team building backend services, APIs, and product integrations. Responsibilities include people management, technical direction, architecture reviews, delivery planning, vendor coordination, API and integration standards, testing, observability, release readiness, and production support. The manager partners with Product, DevOps, QA, Security, Program Management, customers, and external technology vendors to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software.

Lead and manage engineering teams delivering enterprise IT, network infrastructure, and information assurance solutions for DoD programs. Oversee design, implementation, integration, sustainment, compliance with DoD cybersecurity requirements, resource allocation, risk management, technical mentorship, and cross-stakeholder coordination to ensure mission-focused, secure, and high-quality system delivery.

Lead architecture and delivery of real-time stream-processing pipelines using Apache Flink and Java. Design scalable, event-driven, low-latency systems; optimize performance and reliability; deploy and manage cloud/containerized services; enforce CI/CD, testing, and observability; troubleshoot production issues; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and mentor engineering teams.

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.

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.

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.

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 a backend engineering team as a player-coach building payment processing, fraud detection, compliance, and user management systems. Architect distributed microservices, drive technical decisions, write code, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team integrations, and ensure reliable, regulatory-compliant, high-scale financial infrastructure.

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

As an Engineering Manager, lead a cross-functional software engineering team, manage projects, guide technical strategy, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

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 the Customer Developer Experience engineering team, setting technical strategy for open-source TypeScript and React tooling. Responsibilities include supporting external developers, improving documentation and integration workflows, prioritizing work with cross-functional teams, recruiting, mentoring engineers, and maintaining high standards for software quality, testing, and reliability.

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing products. Own delivery, architecture, reliability, technical quality, production outcomes, engineering standards, and team development. Collaborate across product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions. Coach engineers, manage performance, improve processes and automation, resolve incidents, and build a high-performing culture focused on ownership, speed, and technical excellence.

Lead and develop a distributed software engineering team building scalable financial products. Own engineering delivery, architecture, system reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and continuous improvement across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to deliver high-quality products quickly.