Top Entry Level Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads a hands-on engineering team developing AI-powered product features. Sets technical strategy, reviews system designs, contributes code, manages and develops engineers, maintains quality standards, and recruits engineering talent. The role requires strong TypeScript, front-end, database, and recent AI software development experience, along with management experience in a rapidly growing company.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Leads and grows the Dashboard engineering team responsible for Vercel’s customer-facing developer platform. Partners with Product, Design, Data, and engineering teams to set priorities, guide frontend architecture, improve performance and reliability, contribute code, manage incidents, and balance product delivery with long-term scalability. Builds a high-performing, inclusive team while ensuring an intuitive, high-quality developer experience.

Lead a software engineering team building Claude APIs, agent infrastructure, SDKs, documentation, and developer tools. Own planning, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, coaching, and performance management. Partner with Product and customers to shape the roadmap, guide distributed-systems architecture and API design, and collaborate with Research, Safeguards, Security, and go-to-market teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities safely.

Lead a product-focused engineering team building WorkOS Dashboard features for onboarding, growth, billing, monetization, and AI assistance. Responsibilities include technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, product decision-making, customer discovery, roadmap development, hiring, mentoring, and team growth. The role partners closely with product, design, finance, go-to-market, recruiting, and engineering teams while balancing rapid delivery with reliability, billing correctness, and AI quality.

Leads the Customer Studio engineering team across product development, technical roadmap execution, reliability, recruiting, delivery pace, and people development. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management while addressing data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI initiatives.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Lead the engineering team building Arcnine, Tradeify’s real-time trading platform from development through launch. Hire and develop engineers, guide architecture, partner with Product and Design, remain hands-on with code, establish quality and delivery practices, and own reliability, observability, and incident response. The role also contributes to company-wide engineering standards and communicates progress, risks, and needs to founders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads and develops a team of 7+ engineers while owning technical direction, roadmap, execution, architecture, design reviews, production incidents, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality. Partners with Product, Research, and other teams to align priorities and deliver complex technical projects. Requires strong people leadership, technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and cross-functional decision-making. Experience scaling teams and backgrounds in machine learning, AI infrastructure, or generative models are preferred.

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, security, release readiness, and production support. The manager also recruits and develops engineers, manages dependencies and risks, and ensures reliable, maintainable solutions across internal teams, customers, and external technology partners.

Manage and grow a product engineering team at a remote cloud cost-management software company. Lead prioritization, delivery, quality standards, recruiting, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and leadership. Help engineers ship customer-focused features spanning spend management, interfaces, data pipelines, visualizations, and application performance. Coach engineers, remove blockers, promote ownership, and guide tradeoffs between velocity and quality.

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.

Lead and manage a frontend, backend, and full-stack engineering team building products for millions of users. Own technical architecture, engineering delivery, reliability, code quality, production operations, and continuous improvement. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to deliver customer outcomes. Coach engineers, manage performance, establish engineering standards, resolve incidents, and build a high-performing engineering culture.

Lead and manage a global engineering team building scalable financial products. Own delivery, architecture, technical quality, reliability, production outcomes, and engineering processes across frontend, backend, and full-stack systems. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams, while coaching engineers, managing performance, resolving incidents, and building a high-performing engineering culture focused on customer and business outcomes.

Lead a distributed engineering team across frontend, backend, and full-stack development. Own delivery, architecture, system reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and engineering processes. Coach and manage engineers, address performance gaps, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes. The role requires staying technically involved through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging, incident resolution, and scaling products used by millions of users.

Lead and develop a distributed engineering team responsible for frontend, backend, and full-stack products. Own technical architecture, engineering delivery, production reliability, system quality, and delivery speed. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous requirements into shipped outcomes. Coach engineers, manage performance, improve engineering processes and tooling, and resolve production issues while building a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Lead a distributed engineering team across frontend, backend, and full-stack development. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, technical standards, production outcomes, and engineering processes for products serving millions of users. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions. Coach engineers, manage performance, raise technical standards, and drive a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing products. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, engineering standards, production outcomes, and continuous improvement across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and AI integrations. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering execution to customer and business outcomes in a fast-moving global environment.

Lead a distributed engineering team building and scaling customer-facing financial products. Own delivery, architecture, technical standards, reliability, production outcomes, and engineering processes across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and integrations. Coach engineers, manage performance, resolve incidents, make technical trade-offs, and connect engineering execution to customer and business outcomes. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, strong ownership, product sense, and effective collaboration across product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams.

Leads a software engineering team while remaining hands-on technically. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineers, guiding architecture and technical discussions, partnering with product and UX, building interfaces and backend systems, and improving application scalability, stability, security, and efficiency. The manager will influence technical strategy, evolve roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and support cloud-based distributed systems.