Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Engineering Manager responsible for building scalable distributed systems, contributing hands-on design and coding, leading engineering teams, hiring, mentoring, career development, and improving engineering processes and practices. The role requires strong software engineering experience, team management background, and expertise in distributed systems, storage, large-scale software architecture, or security software development.

Lead and grow Zip’s Online Storage infrastructure team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management. Drive multi-cell scalability, data isolation, regional redistribution, and cell provisioning. Own reliability, disaster recovery, observability, and incident response for core storage systems. Set technical direction for search and permissions platforms while partnering with product teams to balance delivery speed and platform stability.

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for ChatGPT Search Product Infrastructure. Manage experienced engineers, build scalable search orchestration and serving platforms, and establish reliability, observability, experimentation, rollout, and operational practices. Partner with Post-Training, Inference, Indexing, Retrieval, Search Quality, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver low-latency, highly available search experiences at global scale while enabling product teams to independently launch features.

Leads two infrastructure and engineering systems squads, owning roadmap, prioritization, delivery, operational health, hiring, mentoring, and vendor budgets. Ships production code, manages on-call performance, oversees audits and automation, and partners across engineering and business functions. Requires substantial software engineering and people-management experience, hands-on production development across cloud or application technologies, strong CI/CD and observability knowledge, security awareness, and experience directing AI agents in production workflows.

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and development of Cadence’s AI-powered Clinical Intelligence platform. Build reliable clinical decision-support and medication recommendation systems using patient data, clinical protocols, safety rules, and clinician oversight. Hire, mentor, and grow AI, backend, and full-stack engineers while establishing engineering standards, testing, observability, validation, and regulatory-readiness practices. Partner with clinical, product, design, and AI stakeholders to deliver safe, scalable production systems.

Lead and grow the Product Engineering team to deliver customer-facing web dashboards, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows. Own roadmap execution, collaborate with Product and Design, drive engineering best practices (testing, deployment, observability), provide technical mentorship, and remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable SaaS product delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Issuing product development, drive technical roadmap execution, mentor a high-performing team, and ensure best engineering practices to deliver exceptional client-focused solutions.

Leads senior and staff engineers building reliable, performant ML infrastructure and product systems. Owns architecture, system design, technical direction, execution, roadmap prioritization, design reviews, prototyping, and critical issue resolution. Partners with researchers and product teams, hires senior talent, and mentors engineers into technical leaders.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Lead technical vision and system design for the Marketplace team while managing and coaching 3–5 engineers. Build scalable systems serving personalized offers, establish team processes, support onboarding, and improve collaboration across engineering, product, design, and data. The role combines engineering management with hands-on technical leadership in a remote-first startup environment.

Lead engineering ownership of an acquired consumer VPN product from due diligence through integration, stabilization, and growth. Manage and coach engineers while remaining hands-on with Kotlin, Swift, Go, architecture, operations, security, and production incidents. Establish testing, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and compliance practices; partner with product, corporate development, marketing, and operations; and create a repeatable engineering playbook for future acquisitions.

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.

Lead and grow a team of engineers building account and transaction history infrastructure. Drive re-architecture for scale, own internal developer tools and dashboards, shape distributed systems and streaming pipeline architecture, coordinate roadmaps with product and finance, and own hiring, SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

Lead a multidisciplinary team building data ingestion, distributed computation, and statistical engines for experimentation. Set technical and scientific direction, translate statistical methods into scalable production features, evolve architecture for complex experiment designs, and partner with product, data scientists, and customers to operationalize trustworthy experimentation.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing web applications and AI tools, optimizing product-led growth strategies and enhancing the developer experience.

Lead and develop the Money Movement engineering team responsible for reliable, compliant payment execution across ACH, wires, real-time payments, checks, international, and stablecoin rails. Manage hiring, coaching, technical execution, on-call ownership, SLOs, and error budgets for tier-one systems. Drive migration from the monolith to a standalone Payments Service with clean API contracts, collaborate with product and operational stakeholders, and contribute hands-on through code reviews and programming when needed.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a full-stack team focused on enhancing buyer experiences, managing post-purchase issues, and improving seller support systems. You will drive technical strategy and outcomes across the buyer experience, collaborating closely with Product and Design teams.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead LaunchDarkly’s Data Platform engineering team, overseeing high-throughput ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, analytical data stores, reliability, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Partner with product and engineering teams on roadmap planning, technical tradeoffs, and delivery. Coach engineers, manage performance and career growth, establish collaborative team practices, and participate in hiring.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Engineering Manager leading teams building financial data infrastructure, reporting engines, accounting automation, and AI-enabled workflows. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, team development, technical leadership, system design, code and architecture review, delivery ownership, and establishing engineering processes and standards. The role is hands-on and requires close collaboration with engineers while supporting product quality and organizational growth.

Lead and grow a frontend platform team owning Zocdoc's accessible React component library and design system. Define roadmap and technical strategy, drive adoption across web and mobile, institutionalize accessibility and quality, mentor engineers, partner with UX/Product/Analytics, and deliver platform improvements that speed frontend and mobile development.

Lead and grow a hands-on Maps & Search engineering team owning home search across web and mobile. Set technical direction, contribute to code, and scale a high-throughput search platform (~1B monthly requests). Improve relevance, latency, and reliability, integrate AI/LLMs into discovery and ranking, and drive delivery from roadmap through incidents and production operations.