Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Leads and develops a 5–10-person software engineering team, sets technical strategy, guides architecture and API design, and partners with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders. Owns product delivery, reliability, observability, incident response, security, automation, testing, continuous delivery, and operational health while hiring talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

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.

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.

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.

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Leads and coaches a team building and maintaining integrations between a cybersecurity platform and third-party technologies. Responsibilities include technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, direct engineering contribution, delivery planning, stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, and team development. The manager balances new integrations, maintenance, customer needs, and technical debt while promoting reliable engineering practices and practical use of AI-assisted development tools.

Leads and builds the Shared Services Engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, technical direction, architecture, delivery, and production operations. Owns the roadmap for shared services, SDKs, APIs, authentication, telemetry integrations, and customer-facing applications. Establishes secure, reliable interfaces and partners across engineering, product, and organizational leadership to align priorities, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption of reusable capabilities.

Lead one or multiple software development teams through the full lifecycle, hire and grow engineers, define scope and delivery, drive architecture, mobile and web development best practices, CI/CD and automated testing, and foster a culture of continuous improvement in a hybrid environment.

Leads Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, combining people leadership with technical strategy across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and efficiency. The manager will develop engineers, establish ownership, improve operational health, lead modernization and disaster-recovery initiatives, build automation and self-service infrastructure, and coordinate with engineering and security leaders. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least two years managing software or infrastructure engineers.

Leads a software engineering team building backend services, APIs, and product integrations. Responsibilities include people management, technical direction, architecture reviews, delivery planning, vendor coordination, API and integration standards, testing, observability, security, release readiness, and production support. The manager also recruits and develops engineers, manages dependencies and risks, and ensures reliable, maintainable solutions across internal teams, customers, and external technology partners.

Leads engineering managers and software teams building customer-facing front-end applications and internal and external APIs. Sets technical direction, oversees delivery, manages risks and dependencies, improves engineering quality and security, develops talent, supports hiring, and partners with product and design. The role drives innovation and scalable software solutions for connected vehicle and fleet operations.

Leads and mentors cross-functional engineering teams building and operating distributed, API-driven, cloud-native platforms. Owns technical strategy, architecture, delivery outcomes, engineering excellence, operational reliability, and API lifecycle governance. Drives Agile, DevOps, cloud migration, observability, and incident management practices. Establishes responsible AI adoption across software development and guides delivery of AI-enabled products, including agentic solutions, with appropriate evaluation and controls.

Leads the Unified Observability engineering team, owning staffing, prioritization, roadmap execution, technical quality, reliability, and delivery outcomes. Partners with Product and engineering stakeholders on architecture, cross-team dependencies, and tradeoffs. Manages hiring, coaching, performance, culture, incident response, and on-call practices. Establishes AI-assisted engineering practices, promotes internal automation, and guides engineers in safely using AI coding tools. The role requires experience managing distributed-systems teams and delivering complex, cross-functional platforms.

Leads the Marketplace Software engineering team, owning the roadmap and execution for marketplace management tools, services, and products. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, and developing engineers; guiding architecture and technical execution; building customer-facing marketplace software; partnering with Product and Operations; and improving scalability and marketplace health.

Leads the software team developing the user interface and underlying state machine for a robotic surgical system. Responsibilities include recruiting and mentoring engineers, managing the full software development lifecycle, coordinating with cross-functional teams, overseeing requirements, risk analysis, verification, validation, traceability, releases, design reviews, and software engineering best practices. The role requires hands-on UI engineering expertise and strong people and technical management skills in a regulated or mission-critical environment.

Leads and mentors software engineering teams supporting Salesforce Finance and HR systems. Oversees application engineering, integrations, test automation, Agile delivery, vendor partnerships, stakeholder communication, and global team operations. Requires expertise with Workday Financials or HCM, MuleSoft integrations, HR or finance transformation, and end-to-end business processes.

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.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team building Snap Map backend services and data infrastructure. Set strategy and roadmap, collaborate with product, data science, and ops, evaluate technical tradeoffs, hire and retain talent, and use AI tools and high-velocity workflows to design and ship scalable, production-ready distributed systems.

Leads and develops a software engineering team responsible for Cloud Atlas, a highly available, multi-master replicated authentication datastore. Oversees APIs, monitoring, performance, resilience, security, incident response, Agile delivery, architecture, and operational strategy. Coaches engineers in system design and AI-augmented development, establishes AI tool workflows, and evaluates AI-generated code. Requires software engineering leadership, Java, REST/RPC, Linux, Bash, microservices, distributed systems, and AI development expertise.

Leads a globally distributed team of iOS and Android engineers building Slack mobile intelligence features. Sets technical direction, prioritizes investments, drives quality, security, accessibility, performance, and data-informed execution. Partners with product managers and designers on planning, dependencies, risks, and timelines. Builds team culture, hires and develops engineers, represents team priorities, and communicates progress and risks to leadership.

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

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 develops a software engineering team, providing technical direction, mentorship, hiring, performance management, and talent development. Drives complex software project planning and delivery, collaborates with product and cross-functional stakeholders, solves technical problems, and establishes engineering standards for quality, testing, architecture, and continuous integration. The role also supports technical strategy, resource allocation, and alignment between engineering initiatives and business goals.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.