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

Lead the Web Infrastructure team responsible for Notion’s web client architecture, performance, reliability, and shared design systems. Build and manage engineering teams and managers, recruit and develop engineers, facilitate planning and prioritization, maintain high engineering quality, and drive consistent delivery. Partner across the organization to shape technical practices, hiring, onboarding, and management processes while balancing product, technology, and people priorities.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams while coordinating delivery across Product, Quality Engineering, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Operations. Contributes hands-on to coding, debugging, API design, architecture, and scalable platform services. Drives engineering excellence through operational metrics, incident management, technical debt reduction, continuous improvement, and modern development practices. Manages performance, staffing, resource allocation, stakeholder communication, and delivery across global teams.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams while contributing hands-on code, architecture, API design, debugging, and scalable platform development. Coordinates Engineering, Product, Quality, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Release Management to deliver reliable SaaS software. Drives technical excellence, operational improvements, incident response, KPIs, resource allocation, roadmap influence, hiring, performance management, and continuous learning. Requires experience with cloud-native microservices, DevOps, observability, high-volume processing, access-control systems, and global team leadership.

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.

Lead and grow an engineering team building Sui wallet and DeFi experiences across web, browser extension, iOS, Android, backend services, and SDKs. Set technical direction for key management, signing, transactions, dApp connectivity, and asset management. Improve architecture, testing, observability, release safety, incident response, and security while partnering with product, design, protocol, and ecosystem teams to deliver reliable, user-friendly onchain products.

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.

Lead and mentor software engineers building scalable e-commerce systems for international expansion. Oversee Ruby on Rails and Elixir systems, improve scalability, performance, security, and user experience, and collaborate with Product, ML, marketing, and internal systems teams. Drive internationalization capabilities, distributed cloud-native services, and technical excellence while helping engineers develop their skills.

Leads and develops a software engineering team responsible for Cloud Atlas, a highly available, multi-master replicated authentication datastore. Oversees APIs, monitoring, performance, resilience, security, incident response, Agile delivery, architecture, and operational strategy. Coaches engineers in system design and AI-augmented development, establishes AI tool workflows, and evaluates AI-generated code. Requires software engineering leadership, Java, REST/RPC, Linux, Bash, microservices, distributed systems, and AI development expertise.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

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.

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 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.

Lead the Windows engineering team responsible for ProPresenter desktop software. Own hiring, coaching, performance management, team health, delivery, throughput, cross-functional execution, and continuous process improvement. Provide technical judgment on C#/.NET desktop development and native interop while partnering with product, design, QA, support, and other engineering teams. Promote high-quality, maintainable software, effective AI-assisted development, and outcomes that serve live production operators.

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.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.