Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.

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.

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.

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.

Lead engineering managers and senior engineers for Authentication services, owning roadmap, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for cloud-native, low-latency API-based systems. Improve architecture, observability, CI/CD, incident response, and cross-team execution while partnering with Product, Research, Security, and Platform to operationalize AI/ML trust signals.

Lead and grow cross-functional engineering teams delivering Salesforce-centered services (Sales Cloud, Health Cloud) and backend systems. Drive agile delivery, technical architecture, code quality, cloud/IaC practices, and healthcare compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2). Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Marketing to prioritize roadmap, improve engineering operations, and report performance metrics to stakeholders.

Lead and grow a software engineering team building marketplace management tools and services. Own roadmap and execution, partner with Product and Operations, improve architecture for scale, and deliver reliable, operationally-focused customer-facing software while hiring, coaching, and developing top engineers.

The Manager of Software Engineering for Growth Platform will lead the engineering team, shape the platform's vision, and collaborate with multiple departments to enhance product capabilities and scale growth.

Lead and manage a team responsible for AI developer workflows and cloud agent platforms, ensuring reliability and guiding technical strategy. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance engineering productivity through AI tools and workflows.

Lead and grow remote engineering teams to design, architect, and deliver cloud-native, high-availability education platforms. Combine people management and hands-on development using Agile, CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring. Modernize monoliths, build APIs, ensure reliability at scale, and apply generative AI and responsible AI practices to improve user engagement and product outcomes.

Lead and grow an engineering team building StrongDM's just-in-time proxy and control-plane platform. Manage delivery of distributed systems in Go across AWS/multi-cloud, oversee code/design reviews (security, TLS/mTLS, credential brokering), translate roadmaps into execution plans, hire and develop engineers, and collaborate with product, architects, and DevOps/SRE to ensure secure, reliable platform operations and compliance with policy-as-code standards.

Hands-on technical leader accountable for architecture, design, and delivery of core insurance platforms (policy, claims, portals, web, mobile). Leads and mentors engineers, conducts code and design reviews, oversees CI/CD and Azure-based DevOps, champions engineering standards, and partners with Product and Operations to translate business needs into secure, scalable solutions while managing technical debt and platform modernization.

Hands-on Engineering Manager leading a distributed team to design, build, deploy, and monitor data-driven web applications. Architect microservices and REST APIs, ensure compliant secure systems (HIPAA/PCI/ISO/NIST), champion AI-assisted workflows, enforce code quality and testing, mentor engineers, and align technical work with business and patient outcomes.

Lead multiple Agile development teams to deliver enterprise software; own architecture and technical design; drive end-to-end delivery, mentor engineers, champion AI-first innovation, ensure release quality, partner with product, and improve operational excellence.

As Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team in enhancing content workflows through automation and AI, develop scalable solutions, and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Lead a 4–7 engineer team owning delivery of consumer and enterprise restaurant applications. Manage capacity, hiring, budgets, launch execution, long-term architecture, AI tooling guidance, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder communication to ensure scalable, reliable product rollouts.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary software and data engineering team building data pipelines, AI-enabled analytics, and custom BI dashboards. Own roadmaps, delivery, SDLC practices, data governance, and cross-functional collaboration with product, program, QA, and BI partners to ensure scalable, reliable analytics platforms and polished UI components.

Lead and grow an engineering team to design, deliver, and scale Ripple's Identity Platform. Own vendor integrations (e.g., Persona), a core identity data model, cross-product orchestration, compliance-ready identity workflows, and the technical roadmap. Partner with Product, Compliance, and legal to ensure global scalability, reliability, observability, and auditability across geographies.

Lead a team of engineers to develop billing systems and manage the end-to-end payment processes to enhance user experience and support Figma's growth.

Lead the Interaction Design team at Figma, focusing on improving runtime APIs for interactive experiences, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product leadership.

Lead three Agile engineering teams (Inventory, Discovery, Identity Graph) owning technical roadmap, architecture, and delivery of cloud-native microservices. Mentor engineers, drive scalable distributed system design on Azure/AWS, promote AI-assisted development tools, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to launch new features and teams.

Lead engineering teams to develop and optimize .NET and Salesforce applications, driving architectural standards and ensuring project delivery while managing a cross-functional team.