Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Contribute to the development of the authentication and authorization platform, define AI workflows, improve identity layers, and mentor team members.

Lead a small backend team to build and operate the Financial Platform that converts operational events into auditable financial records. Own billing, settlements, ledgers, reconciliation, ERP integrations, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, and audit readiness. Drive roadmap with Finance, deliver measurable reconciliation and close-time improvements, ensure correctness for payments and inventory costing, and be a hands‑on manager shipping code and technical designs.

Lead and grow a 6–8 person engineering team building cloud-native backend systems, distributed platforms, and ML tooling for federal customers. Split time between technical execution and people management, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure federal compliance and security, engage with customers, and contribute to product and platform roadmap. Must be eligible for TS/SCI clearance and commute to office three times weekly.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Query team, define the roadmap, manage engineers, drive platform evolution, and enhance customer onboarding for Amplitude's analytics platform.

Hands-on engineering manager leading small-to-medium teams to build and run customer-facing microservice applications. Drives architecture, CI/CD, paired programming, TDD, production ownership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration with product and stakeholders.

Lead and grow the Launch & Scale Platform engineering team to build end-to-end systems for site acquisition, permitting, construction, deployment tracking, and launch readiness. Define product and technical roadmaps, deliver measurable improvements in launch velocity and predictability, design auditable long-running workflows and integrations (ERP/GIS/document systems), operate production services with SLOs/on-call, ship code, and collaborate cross-functionally to scale global deployments.

Lead and build the Launch & Scale Platform to automate site acquisition, permitting, construction execution, deployment tracking, and launch readiness. Define product and technical roadmap, ship backend services, integrate ERP/GIS/document systems, set SLOs and incident processes, hire and mentor engineers, and drive measurable outcomes (faster launches, fewer manual steps, improved predictability).

Lead a multidisciplinary team to manage software engineering for renewable energy applications while driving technical strategy and product delivery.

Lead and grow a cross-functional software engineering team building platforms for quantum device design, fabrication workflows, characterization, and measurement. Drive engineering rigor, architecture, data platforms, streaming systems, and collaboration with hardware, fabrication, and research teams while remaining hands-on to support debugging and smaller technical initiatives.

The Engineering Manager will lead the team building the LangSmith observability platform, mentoring engineers, defining technical directions, and collaborating with product teams to develop reliable AI systems.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Manage two Reporting/BI scrum teams delivering financial reporting for the CEM platform. Own delivery, people, and client relationships; provide technical SQL/BI leadership; drive AI-first tooling adoption; coordinate cross-functional alignment; hire and develop engineers across distributed locations.

Lead and mentor engineers building mobile and desktop apps integrated with devices, cloud, and ML. Drive engineering best practices, technical strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and documentation with Quality and Regulatory to translate research into production medical software.

Lead the Orchestration Services team, managing engineering projects and guiding team members, while ensuring reliable, scalable data processing systems.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

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.

The Senior Engineering Manager at Planet leads the engineering team, focusing on delivering products for Defense Intelligence. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, refining processes, and collaborating across teams for effective deployment of technology.

Hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and grow a distributed team building data-driven, compliant pharmacy systems. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, deployment, monitoring, microservices and API design, quality and testing standards, AI-assisted development adoption, and cross-functional partnership to deliver production-ready healthcare software.

Hands-on Engineering Manager who leads a distributed team, architects data-driven systems, owns full lifecycle and production reliability, champions AI-assisted development, mentors engineers, and aligns technical decisions with business and patient outcomes.

Lead the engineering team for Sift's data platform, manage data pipelines, establish processes, and contribute to architecture and features. Collaborate with product teams for strategy and growth.

Manage and develop a team of software engineers, drive technical excellence, and ensure efficient feature delivery while fostering professional growth and collaboration.

The Software Engineering Manager leads a team to design and maintain data processing systems and computational pipelines, collaborating across teams to support scientific research.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team to build and maintain a data platform for protein engineering, utilizing Python and cloud technologies.

Lead the engineering team for Rescale's core cloud computing orchestration engine, focusing on AI-assisted development, operational excellence, and scalable distributed systems.

Lead a small systems team building SmithDB: write and review Rust production code, make architecture decisions for storage and query execution, drive performance profiling and fixes, deploy and harden distributed Kubernetes services, integrate cloud object stores, build observability, and manage hiring, mentorship, and the technical roadmap.