Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead Slack’s Slack Kit and Accessibility engineering team. Drive accessibility strategy, evolve the frontend design system and component library, guide CSS modernization and other major initiatives, establish multi-quarter roadmaps, and hire, coach, and develop engineers while building a sustainable, high-performing team.

Lead and mentor software engineering teams building scalable AI-enabled learning and skilling platforms. Own architecture, software delivery, quality, security, reliability, and operational excellence across the full lifecycle. Partner with product, operations, and engineering stakeholders to define roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver Azure-based solutions. Guide responsible AI adoption, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, and production support while remaining hands-on in technical design and code reviews.

Leads and contributes to software engineering for the Terafab product, including architecture, scalable backend and frontend systems, data models, APIs, integrations, and technical interfaces with autonomy, IoT, and controls systems. Manages and mentors a small engineering team, facilitates Scrum processes, coordinates priorities and dependencies, resolves complex production issues, drives technical standards and modernization, and supports hiring, planning, and cross-functional execution.

Lead the 0-to-1 development and launch of Rippling Banking. Own the engineering roadmap, architecture, technical quality, scalability, and reliability while writing production code. Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, collaborate with Product, Design, and Finance Engineering, and drive cross-team initiatives that improve engineering velocity and customer impact.

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.

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.

Leads and mentors an embedded system software team, setting technical strategy and architecture across multiple products. Oversees C and C++ driver and framework development, hardware-software integration, performance, power, and thermal optimization. Serves as a technical escalation point, drives cross-functional programs from concept through delivery, communicates with executives and stakeholders, and balances hands-on technical leadership with hiring, mentorship, roadmap planning, and delivery accountability.

Leads a cloud engineering team responsible for internal developer platforms, cloud cost optimization, observability, security, AI infrastructure, incident management, Kubernetes networking, business continuity, disaster recovery, and CI/CD. The role owns platform architecture and roadmaps, drives cross-functional delivery, improves operational excellence, and develops scalable self-service tooling for engineering teams.

Lead and grow a cloud engineering team responsible for Mozilla’s internal developer platform. Drive cloud cost optimization, observability, security, AI infrastructure, incident management, Kubernetes networking, business continuity, disaster recovery, and CI/CD improvements. Own platform architecture and roadmaps, lead technical and organizational transformations, enable self-service tooling, and promote operational excellence, security, reliability, compliance, and scalable developer experiences.

Leads engineering teams and AI-enabled development practices to deliver web products for small businesses. Owns roadmap execution, technical quality, architecture, incident reviews, hiring, team development, and business outcomes. Partners with product, design, and marketing, remains hands-on with code and design reviews, and drives automation, agent adoption, experimentation, observability, and safe releases. The role also develops engineering leaders and establishes reusable AI engineering practices across the organization.

Lead the POS Payments Experience engineering team, delivering reliable Android and web-based payment products. Drive planning, cross-team execution, technical direction, architecture, quality, monitoring, and production issue resolution. Partner with product and UX leaders, hire and develop engineers, and champion AI-assisted development practices.

Leads an engineering team delivering Quoting, Catalog Management, and go-to-market technology. Oversees technical decisions, delivery planning, code reviews, quality assurance, release planning, incident resolution, stakeholder collaboration, and team development. Partners with Sales, Product, RevOps, and Data Analytics leaders while driving scalable solutions across Salesforce CPQ, Product Catalog, and related systems. Champions AI-assisted development and contributes to complex architecture and implementation efforts.

Leads architectural decisions, web roadmap delivery, and API acquisition efforts. Partners with leadership on engineering roadmaps and technical feasibility, mentors engineers, promotes best practices, and guides scalable application development and project planning. The role requires engineering team management, Ruby on Rails experience, cloud application development, strong communication, and effective mentorship.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

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.

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 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 5–7 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.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads a high-performing software engineering team responsible for customer activation, engagement, and expansion across a travel marketplace. Oversees end-to-end project delivery, promotes AI-driven engineering practices, improves agile processes, and partners with product, data, and design. Drives experimentation, scalability, security, technical excellence, and customer-focused product adoption while developing team talent and aligning engineering priorities with business goals.

Leads a global software engineering team delivering backend services, integrations, platform migrations, product launches, and production support. Provides technical leadership in architecture, coding, testing, code review, Agile project delivery, and AI-assisted development within a regulated biotech environment. Manages hiring, mentoring, performance, stakeholder collaboration, and process improvement while establishing quality, security, traceability, and compliance standards.

Leads a senior-heavy software engineering team building a new consumer home-services product. Owns full-stack technical direction across mobile, backend, and frontend; architecture, roadmap, delivery, mentorship, hiring, and team growth. Partners with executives, product, design, recruiting, and B2B engineering teams while driving rapid experimentation, technical quality, and AI-enabled development practices.

Lead and grow an engineering team building agentic development systems. Set technical direction, contribute to architecture and implementation, and improve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, reliability, performance, and operability. Partner with Product and Design to create developer experiences while extending provider-agnostic model integrations. Coach engineers, clarify priorities, and maintain a high technical and execution standard.

Lead and co-develop the Maven Voice Agent platform, managing engineers while guiding architecture, product execution, and technical standards. Oversee real-time voice infrastructure, conversational AI, telephony integrations, agent orchestration, customer workflows, reliability, latency, scalability, observability, and production operations. Partner with Product, Design, AI/ML, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to deliver reliable voice experiences and continuously improve engineering processes and platform capabilities.

Lead the Performance and Quality Frameworks team, owning scalable performance engineering platforms and shared functional testing frameworks. Drive architecture, reliability, adoption, documentation, self-service, and roadmap execution across product teams. Apply AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to improve test development, maintenance, analysis, and engineering efficiency. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor engineers, measure framework outcomes, and support highly distributed SaaS systems using cloud, microservices, containers, and CI/CD technologies.