Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Manages software engineering teams and projects, setting strategic goals, overseeing end-to-end development, and delivering complex enterprise software. Provides technical oversight for system design, architecture, reliability, security compliance, and performance. The role includes hiring, mentoring, process improvement, stakeholder coordination, resource planning, and ensuring projects meet requirements and timelines.

Leads the software engineering team responsible for GoFundMe’s integrity systems, including detection, content moderation, enforcement, reviewer tooling, transparency reporting, and appeals. Manages and mentors engineers, oversees architecture and incident response, establishes model precision and recall standards, builds privacy and abuse-prevention capabilities, supports regulatory compliance, and manages third-party detection and case-management vendors.

Manages an experienced engineering team developing cross-product UX platform features for Figma. Responsibilities include setting strategy and priorities with product, design, and engineering leaders; fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture; mentoring senior engineers; balancing technical quality with feature delivery; and collaborating across teams to improve product workflows.

Manage a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for GSP firmware reliability, resiliency, field debugging, pre-silicon readiness, release execution, validation, and quality metrics. Partner with technical leaders on architecture, prioritization, and delivery while driving incident response, blocker resolution, test coverage, and robust GPU driver software releases across product lines.

Manages and grows a software engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture, development, integration, and troubleshooting. Leads cloud-native AWS services, microservices, APIs, Python backend systems, frontend components, secure access controls, CI/CD, and production support for satellite communications ground systems. Collaborates with systems engineering, MBSE, cybersecurity, testing, DevSecOps, and government stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, traceable, and reliable mission software.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Leads and develops backend software engineering managers and technical teams, establishes development metrics and delivery processes, and drives high-quality product releases. Partners with design and business teams on customer-centered experiences, facilitates cross-functional planning, mentors employees, improves engineering practices, and supports long-term organizational and product goals.

Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization across desktop and backend teams. Set technical direction, architecture, delivery strategy, roadmap priorities, budget, and engineering quality standards. Manage managers and distributed teams while participating in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical problem-solving. Ensure reliability, performance, testing, and maintainability, improve agile processes and productivity, and promote AI-assisted development practices. Partner with product and senior leadership on scope, risks, trade-offs, customers, and long-term organizational decisions.

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.

Leads delivery of common software libraries across multiple projects and platforms while owning the technical roadmap. Responsibilities include incident root-cause resolution, deployment automation, infrastructure scaling, Kafka-based messaging implementations, monitoring and dashboards, Kubernetes and cluster management, certificate and identity management, and development of troubleshooting tools that improve infrastructure visibility and engineering efficiency.

Leads software engineering teams and enterprise application portfolios supporting sales execution, order management, CRM, ERP, and integrations. Owns solution strategy, architecture, delivery, roadmaps, application stability, security, testing, releases, budgets, vendors, and service performance. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize capabilities, manage risks, drive modernization, ensure adoption, and develop high-performing teams.

Own the architecture, delivery, roadmap, and operational health of a network solutions engineering team. Partner with Product to scope and deliver predictable software, maintain high engineering and DORA standards, apply AI-assisted development, manage dependencies, participate in on-call, handle incidents, develop engineers, and lead hiring. The role remains hands-on, requiring recent coding, code review, technical decision-making, and ownership of networking products including load balancing, switching, firewalls, VPN, and VPC.

Leads SAP S/4HANA Record-to-Report technology strategy, engineering, delivery, support, and continuous improvement. Oversees software engineering and support teams supporting General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Tax, Product Costing, Project Systems, and Vendor Invoice Management. Partners with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders, manages implementations and integrations, improves service delivery, ensures technical quality and compliance, and develops team talent and vendor relationships.

Leads the FastAuth software engineering team, owning delivery, technical direction, team health, hiring, performance management, career development, and organizational planning. The role oversees multiple concurrent workstreams using React, TypeScript, .NET, Azure, and event-driven integrations. It requires cross-functional collaboration, scaled agile planning, data-driven delivery management, stakeholder alignment, and adoption of AI tooling. Healthcare, pharmacy, payer, prior authorization, and FHIR experience are preferred.

Leads Tonal’s Experiences engineering team of six, owning the member experience roadmap across trainer, mobile app, and backend platforms. Responsibilities include people management, hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery execution, technical quality, reliability, performance, testing, release health, architecture review, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data Science, Content, and executives. The role requires maintaining technical depth while improving team effectiveness and shipping consumer-facing experiences.

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 people management, workforce planning, capability development, hiring, and delivery sustainability for a software engineering team building Revit add-ins, Blazor applications, integrations, installers, deployment services, and licensing tools. The role bridges software engineering with AEC and Revit workflows, supports productization and user readiness, develops technical leadership, and improves management systems for distributed teams.

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 and develops a software engineering team, owns engineer growth, partners with Product and technical teams on architecture and data models, facilitates technical roadmap execution, translates business goals into requirements, and drives scalable, maintainable solutions amid ambiguity.

Lead the Middleware Transport team responsible for in-vehicle messaging, networking, serialization abstractions, and vehicle-to-cloud connectivity. Own the roadmap, staffing, architecture, and release commitments while developing engineers and managing performance and hiring. Partner cross-functionally with firmware, security, simulation, manufacturing, fleet operations, and infrastructure teams. Balance reliability incidents with long-term platform architecture and establish technical standards for transport systems.

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 Salesforce’s Authentication Platform Engineering team responsible for scalable, highly available identity services, including Kerberos, LDAP, TOTP, FIDO2, and WebAuthn. Sets platform strategy, provides technical leadership, advances Zero Trust security, and manages cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Coaches engineers in system architecture and AI-augmented development, evaluates AI-generated code, oversees hiring and growth, and partners with security architects to maintain strong reliability, security, and technical standards.

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.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team building a scalable cloud data and analytics platform. Owns architecture, data modeling, technical delivery, roadmaps, product collaboration, agile planning, quality standards, security alignment, vendor relationships, and engineering KPIs. The role remains hands-on with coding, code reviews, documentation, data architecture, deployment, and development of SaaS data products using Azure or AWS, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake, and Power BI.

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