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

The Manager of Software Engineering for Growth Platform will lead the engineering team, shape the platform's vision, and collaborate with multiple departments to enhance product capabilities and scale growth.

Lead and develop engineering teams, define technical vision and roadmaps, oversee scalable distributed systems and complex projects, and drive execution, reliability, code quality, and operational excellence. The role requires cross-functional leadership, architectural involvement, metrics and incident review, team growth, and communication of technical strategies to company leadership and global partners.

Lead the Landing Pages engineering team, overseeing product vision, architecture, development, and scalable web experiences. Collaborate with product and design to prioritize capabilities, validate adoption using usage data, and expand customer use cases. Recruit, coach, and retain engineers while guiding technical decisions and contributing code when appropriate. Own team goals, processes, and engineering quality in a high-growth environment.

Lead and grow Miter’s Financials engineering team while remaining hands-on. Own the architecture, roadmap, reliability, and delivery of greenfield financial products for construction contractors, including expenses, reimbursements, per diems, and enterprise financial systems. Partner directly with executives and early customers, hire and mentor engineers, and design correctness-critical transactional systems where money moves accurately at scale.

Leads engineering teams developing platform software for GPU-accelerated applications using Kubernetes, container runtimes, Kata Containers, and Confidential Containers. Responsibilities include enabling GPUs as Kubernetes resources, integrating software across NVIDIA’s technology stack, managing priorities, and delivering secure, reliable distributed systems. The role requires deep systems software expertise, engineering management experience, and hands-on knowledge of containers, Linux, cloud computing, virtualization, and confidential computing technologies.

Manage a team developing accelerated image and data compression libraries. Define project goals, roadmap, and scope; ensure execution and delivery; elevate engineering practices; collaborate with internal and external customers and the open-source community while fostering an inclusive, innovative environment.

Lead and grow Harvey’s Backend Platform team while defining its technical vision and roadmap. Guide development of shared backend frameworks, database access layers, caching, request handling, streaming, reliability safeguards, observability, and security controls. Partner across engineering teams to scale distributed systems, improve performance, and enable safe adoption of human- and AI-generated code. Hire, coach, and develop engineers while remaining hands-on in architecture, code reviews, migrations, and complex systems problem-solving.

Lead engineering for Hightouch’s Agentic Marketing Platform, overseeing product development, technical execution, recruiting, reliability, and people management. The role focuses on AI-powered content generation, customer context management, campaign insights, and orchestration across advertising and lifecycle platforms. The manager will guide roadmap execution, improve team delivery speed, maintain high technical standards, strengthen incident management, and develop team members in a rapidly scaling environment.

Leads the software engineering team building Salesforce’s AppExchange Go To Market marketplace platform. Responsibilities include setting architecture and technical strategy, resolving scalability and reliability issues, partnering with product and cross-functional stakeholders, managing delivery risks, mentoring and hiring engineers, and contributing hands-on when needed. The role focuses on highly available cloud services, automation, self-healing systems, quality, and long-term platform stability.

Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable AI-native insurance products. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical direction, architecture guidance, design reviews, and delivery of reliable production systems. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and customer-facing teams to execute ambiguous initiatives. Use AI-native development workflows to increase velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, reliability, and production readiness.

Manage and develop engineering teams while providing hands-on technical and project leadership. Drive software design, technical excellence, feature delivery, team mentorship, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to create educational technology products.

Leads and grows an engineering team building and operating a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Partners with product and leadership on roadmap execution, drives technical excellence, reliability, security, and operational efficiency, and manages delivery timelines and resources in an Agile environment. The role also mentors engineers, supports career development, fosters inclusion, and oversees hiring and retention while ensuring high availability and strong software development practices.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.

Lead and build a mobile engineering team from the ground up, overseeing hiring, mentorship, architecture, product execution, release governance, QA infrastructure, app-store deployments, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages iOS, Android, and cross-platform development while ensuring reliable, secure, high-quality mobile experiences for employees and retirement-plan administrators.

The Staff Software Development Engineer will design and develop web applications, lead automation testing strategies, and collaborate on user experiences, utilizing strong front-end skills and full-stack exposure.

Leads a hands-on engineering team building fan-facing marketplace experiences across web and mobile. Responsibilities include coding, technical architecture, AI-enabled development practices, roadmap and execution ownership, cross-functional partnership with Product and Design, risk management, mentoring, hiring, and improving engineering velocity, quality, and business outcomes. The role requires full-stack leadership in a high-traffic consumer marketplace, with expertise in modern frontend stacks, backend services, APIs, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven prioritization.

Leads Stripe’s Mobile Development Productivity engineering team, setting technical strategy and managing platforms for mobile development environments, continuous integration, testing, builds, and releases. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, defining roadmaps, guiding architecture, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, improving reliability and security, and enabling AI agents in mobile development workflows.

Lead the IQ Platform engineering team and define the architecture and roadmap for Jasper’s AI context layer. Build scalable knowledge management systems, integrations, and RAG pipelines that improve agent intelligence and reliability. Serve as a player-coach by contributing code, mentoring engineers, partnering with Staff-level technical leaders, and driving major platform initiatives from strategy through delivery.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Leads and develops a team of 4–6 software engineers building and operating React Native mobile applications, backend services, and administration platforms. Responsibilities include people management, architecture, code quality, technical debt reduction, delivery planning, cross-team collaboration, infrastructure and security coordination, engineering metrics, and rotating on-call support. The role remains technically engaged through design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, and architectural guidance.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Leads a team of 5–7 backend software engineers developing reliable smart-home security services, websites, databases, device integrations, monitoring systems, and test automation. Responsibilities include technical mentorship, hiring, project delivery, timeline setting, prioritization, cross-functional collaboration, architecture development, process improvement, and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads three activation and integration engineering teams totaling 20–25 engineers across the US and India. Owns platform reliability, partner integrations, incident response, roadmap, architecture, and modernization initiatives including Temporal migration, self-service, and AI-driven workflows. Hires and develops engineering leaders, manages large-scale data pipelines, improves delivery speed and cost, reduces duplicate data, and partners with Product, Quality, Support, executives, and external technology partners.