Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead a Developer Productivity team building and operating build systems, CI/CD, remote build execution, and developer tooling. Own roadmap, improve CI speed and reliability, migrate workloads into shared build platforms, define reliability/observability practices, and hire/coach engineers while partnering with cross-functional teams.

Leads and develops software engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career growth. Partners with product and design to deliver secure, scalable, reliable features; guides architecture and engineering best practices; improves processes, velocity, and execution; and translates customer and business needs into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on leadership in a high-growth startup environment and ownership of engineering culture, performance, reliability, and talent development.

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.

Manage a team of software engineers building PaaS, platform tooling, payments, and core microservice infrastructure. Drive reliability, scalability, operations, and DevOps practices in a public cloud. Set technical strategy, mentor engineers, and lead remote teams to deliver large-scale distributed systems.

Lead and grow a cross-functional software engineering team building platforms for quantum device design, fabrication workflows, characterization, and measurement. Drive engineering rigor, architecture, data platforms, streaming systems, and collaboration with hardware, fabrication, and research teams while remaining hands-on to support debugging and smaller technical initiatives.

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will oversee multiple engineering teams for an unpublished R&D product, defining engineering strategy, managing performance, and shaping product development. This role requires a hands-on approach in implementation and close collaboration with product teams, focusing on backend systems for game development and scaling technologies effectively.

Lead and grow a 16-person engineering organization across four AI-focused pods. Set technical direction, guide AI-native product and engineering development, manage cross-team dependencies, and oversee delivery, quality, reliability, security, and velocity. Partner with product, design, and leadership on scalable full-stack systems, mentor engineers and technical leads, and promote strong practices in architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD within a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.

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 a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Lead one or more engineering teams owning mission, execution, code quality, and morale. Partner with product managers on roadmaps, remove roadblocks, improve processes, coach and grow engineers, and drive innovation while delivering high-traffic full-stack or data applications at scale.

Lead and manage the development of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, guiding a team of engineers and setting strategic goals.

Lead and develop a software engineering team modernizing a legacy enterprise platform. Drive re-architecture, define target-state architecture and technical strategy, guide scalability and reliability decisions, and establish engineering standards for testing, code review, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and operational excellence. Partner with Architecture, Product, Security, and business stakeholders while recruiting talent, supporting career development, and balancing technical priorities with delivery commitments.

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

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

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

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

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 responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

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 Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.

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.