Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

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.

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.

Lead the Tools & Frameworks engineering team to build shared backend libraries, internal tooling, scalable APIs, and schemas. Define roadmap, balance technical and business priorities, drive architectural excellence (including FHIR translation, monorepo decomposition, data federation, event-streaming), mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

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.

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead engineering teams in developing software solutions for financial systems and carrier integration, with a focus on leveraging AI technology for enhanced performance and data-driven decision-making.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Manage an overseas Agile sprint team, bridge business and engineering with clear technical requirements, contribute as a senior engineer (architecture, code, reviews), develop cloud-hosted and on‑prem and front-end applications, and perform people, project, and software development management.

Lead and mentor an embedded software team, manage system-level strategy, oversee hardware/software integration, drive software development, and guide optimizations.