Top Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead and grow a 5–8 engineer team building measurement, segmentation, and ranking systems to demonstrate payer value. Set technical and operational roadmap, deliver externally committed launches and metrics, partner with Product/Clinical/Data, mentor engineers and tech leads, and ensure rigorous experimentation and metric guardrails to inform payer decisions.

Lead and grow the Data Safety engineering team to enable safe use of highly sensitive mental-health data. Own de-identification, access controls, entitlements, LLM data handling, and compliance audit evidence. Partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, Data Platform, and product teams to set roadmap, deliver privacy commitments, and enable company-wide safe data practices.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

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 a 7–10 person full-stack engineering team building Accounts Payable and Bill Pay software. Set technical and product direction, make architecture and UX tradeoffs, ship reliable customer-facing products, partner with Product and Design, and coach engineers across levels. Translate customer feedback into priorities and promote AI-forward development practices. The role requires strong engineering leadership, product judgment, customer empathy, communication, and at least two years of engineering management experience.

Lead Sentry’s Growth engineering team, define and execute its roadmap, and improve the self-serve customer funnel across signup, onboarding, activation, trials, upgrades, pricing, and billing. Partner with Product, Data, Design, BizOps, and GTM teams to build experimentation foundations, run disciplined tests, analyze metrics, and balance conversion with retention and customer value. Mentor engineers and contribute substantively to architecture and technical decisions.

Leads and mentors engineering teams, sets technical direction, manages engineering metrics, and drives reliable software delivery. Partners with product, design, and business stakeholders on scalable healthcare platform solutions. Establishes development, testing, code review, and CI/CD best practices while hiring and developing engineers. The role also addresses complex technical challenges, fosters cross-team collaboration, and promotes continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

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.

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.

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.

Hands-on engineering team lead for Next.js who writes and reviews production code, leads technical initiatives and architecture, coaches engineers, improves execution, partners across product/design/infrastructure, champions open source, and helps recruit and ramp new team members.

Leads an engineering team developing foundational endpoint management and security platform components. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, roadmap definition, architecture, software delivery, cross-team coordination, project management, and ensuring scalable, reliable, performant software across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.

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.

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 and develop a team of four or more engineers while partnering with product, design, and operations to execute R&D strategy. The role combines people management with hands-on coding, architecture design, technical leadership, mentorship, resource planning, process improvement, and team strategy. The manager will drive business outcomes, foster engineering culture, and support innovation in a complex, fast-paced 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 backend and full-stack engineering team responsible for Tradeify’s live trading platform. Partner with Product and Engineering teams on platform integrations, architecture, delivery, code quality, CI/CD, reliability, observability, and incident response. Remain hands-on through code reviews, design guidance, and technical problem solving while managing performance, hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional communication.

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 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.