Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a development team, set technical direction, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance a SaaS application for governance, risk, and compliance.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team (player-coach) to build and maintain mission-critical device monitoring, alerting, and internal health tooling. Drive technical strategy and microservices design, contribute full‑stack TypeScript/Node.js/React code, and manage containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes/Helm and AWS services (S3, API Gateway, SQS). Collaborate cross-functionally and use AI-assisted developer tools to increase team velocity.

Lead a new data engineering team to define standards, drive cross-functional AI-driven initiatives, and provide hands-on guidance in SQL optimization, data modeling, and the GCP data/streaming stack. Balance technical leadership with people management, coach engineers, promote AI-assisted workflows, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to build a standardized data ecosystem.

Lead and grow an engineering team, set technical vision, drive delivery of scalable secure systems, partner with product/design, establish engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, TDD), mentor engineers, and promote innovation to advance Function's healthcare platform.

Lead and mentor full-stack engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable client-facing and proprietary software. Drive architecture, technical roadmap, Agile delivery, cloud-native migrations, API integrations, quality metrics, and cross-functional collaboration while balancing hands-on development and people leadership to meet product and business goals.

Lead and grow a data platform engineering team: set technical roadmap, ensure reliability and scalability, hire and coach engineers, partner cross-functionally, make build vs buy decisions, and keep delivery predictable while balancing short- and long-term priorities.

Lead the vision and delivery of a unified telemetry platform: own roadmap and architecture for client SDKs, schema registry, and ingestion; ensure data quality, latency, and availability; build and mentor an engineering team; partner with product, data, ML, and analytics stakeholders; drive migration from bespoke telemetry to a shared observability backbone.

Lead the engineering team in developing AI-based robotic solutions, design software platforms, and manage team growth while collaborating with various departments.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team to deliver OS features for mission-critical edge systems. Manage timelines, risks, contractors, and resource allocation while ensuring safety, compliance (e.g., DO-178C), code quality, and Agile processes in certification-driven environments.

Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers in Sustaining Engineering, ensuring growth, performance, and customer-focused software solutions. Support timely delivery of technical solutions across various technology fields while promoting a collaborative culture.

Lead and grow an ~8-engineer squad building GoFundMe Pro's Studio campaign-creation experience. Own delivery, architecture, quality, experimentation, and metrics; partner with Product and Design; recruit and mentor engineers; champion AI-assisted development and technical excellence (observability, CI/CD, SLI/SLOs, test coverage). Balance hands-on coding with people leadership to drive adoption, conversion, performance, accessibility, and iterative product delivery.

Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team to build operational intelligence, observability, and AI-driven tooling that improves production availability, resiliency, and operational governance. Partner with Platform, SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to define reliability standards, prioritize investments, and deliver scalable reliability and automation solutions.

Lead and grow the engineering team for Payload, an open-source CMS and framework. Define strategy, engage community and enterprise customers, provide technical leadership, align roadmap with product and design, hire and mentor engineers, and drive engineering investments to scale the platform and integrations across Figma.

Lead a team to improve PlayStation Portal platform performance, stability, security, and observability. Drive telemetry, logging, automated testing, CI/CD integration, dashboards, and cross-functional collaboration. Own technical program delivery from architecture through global launch while mentoring engineers and improving engineering productivity and operational excellence.

Lead and grow a team of 6–12 software engineers, drive project execution from planning to delivery, maintain technical standards and architecture, collaborate with Product and Design, conduct performance management and career development, recruit and retain talent, and improve engineering processes and team culture.

Lead and manage a high-impact engineering team to develop and deliver developer platforms and tools, ensuring high-quality experiences and technical leadership.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Lead a team of ~5–8 engineers building and operating an integrations platform (APIs, webhooks, Salesforce, event-driven systems). Own roadmap delivery, mentor engineers, drive architecture and operational excellence, manage migrations, partner cross-functionally, and support customers while staying hands-on in technical design and incident response.

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver backend services, platform components, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, testing, and operational readiness. Drive engineering standards, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement with emphasis on security, reliability, and scalable platform patterns.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building Hatch and Unity platforms. Partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality web features on schedule, guide architecture and technical decisions, refine development and AI-assisted workflows, hire and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and remove blockers so the team can ship reliably.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop and maintain software solutions, collaborate with various teams, and implement CI/CD practices. They will also mentor engineers and influence organizational technology strategies.

Lead the Observability engineering team, overseeing systems that provide visibility into Figma's platform's health and performance. Drive strategies for cost transparency and explore AI-driven solutions for operational issues. Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system efficiency.

Lead and grow an engineering team building SELECT, a cloud cost management platform. Drive technical strategy, architecture, development practices, reliability, and cross-functional execution. Mentor engineers, manage performance and hiring, and improve delivery processes to scale the product and organization.

The Software Engineering Manager leads a distributed team, overseeing project management, collaboration, software architecture, and strategic direction, focusing on core infrastructure and services for Okta's authentication and authorization products.