Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead the ToastNow engineering team in delivering high-quality native mobile experiences for restaurant operators. Drive planning, execution, cross-functional collaboration, backlog development, production quality, monitoring, and issue resolution. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering diverse, high-performing teams. Champion AI tools and practices to improve development speed, quality, and team velocity.

Manage a team of modeling and simulation engineers to develop high-fidelity models, overseeing technical direction and people management while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers to define strategy, roadmap, and measurable goals. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Operations, and executives to deliver scalable, high-availability services. Make technical tradeoffs, hire and retain talent, apply AI tools responsibly, and ensure code correctness, security, and production quality while executing large, complex initiatives.

Lead a compliance and risk engineering pillar to design, deliver, and operate regulatory automation, AI/ML, and risk-control platforms. Own roadmap, reliability, incident and defect management, stakeholder communication with Legal/Cyber/Compliance, and hiring and growth of software and quality engineering teams across global jurisdictions.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team building Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure. Define architecture, drive design reviews, ensure security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations at scale. Guide implementation, incident response, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers and aligning stakeholders across Azure product teams.

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

Lead and develop a 12-person multidisciplinary data organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and support. Set technical direction for the data platform, improve scalability and reliability, automate workflows, guide architecture, and integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products. Establish priorities, support go-to-market teams, manage performance and career development, hire effectively, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and company leadership.

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.

Lead and mentor an embedded software team building firmware and embedded Linux platforms for unmanned aerial systems. Drive architecture, Yocto/Linux kernel/device driver development, hardware bring-up, motor control integration, CI/CD, and cross-discipline integration with electrical, mechanical, systems, and flight test teams to deliver production-quality robotics/aerospace software.

Manage and mentor an embedded software team building firmware and embedded Linux platforms for unmanned aerial and robotics systems. Lead Yocto-based builds, Linux kernel/device driver work, hardware bring-up, motor-control integration, CI/CD, and cross-discipline integration with electrical, mechanical, systems, and flight test teams to deliver reliable production software.

Lead a squad building factory and launch platform software: manage engineers, own architecture and full SDLC, ship code, partner with cross-functional teams, mentor and hire, and uphold engineering standards for production systems.

Leads and coaches a team building and maintaining integrations between a cybersecurity platform and third-party technologies. Responsibilities include technical design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, direct engineering contribution, delivery planning, stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, and team development. The manager balances new integrations, maintenance, customer needs, and technical debt while promoting reliable engineering practices and practical use of AI-assisted development tools.

Leads and develops a software engineering team building consumer-facing mobile and web experiences. Owns technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, performance, incident response, and operational improvements. Partners with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineering teams to deliver large-scale redesigns and cross-functional initiatives while driving alignment, execution, and a high-trust team culture.

Lead and grow a software engineering team owning delivery, quality, and operational health. Provide technical oversight for architecture and code quality, drive planning and execution cadence, adopt AI-assisted development tooling, recruit and onboard engineers, remove blockers and manage cross-team dependencies, and partner with product and design to deliver high-impact work.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Manage engineers, establish safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback, observability, and auditability, and partner across infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve reliability. Drive adoption of resilience practices, identify distributed-system weaknesses, and guide monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production experiments.

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 develop distributed software engineering teams; define and execute platform roadmap, architecture, and standards; improve delivery, reliability, and developer productivity; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver scalable cloud-native platform services and shared capabilities.

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 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.

Leads a 10–20-person software engineering team through the full SDLC in an Agile environment. Manages work-package planning, product delivery, contractual cost and schedule requirements, Agile metrics, EVMS reporting, risks, and mission objectives. Provides technical direction, mentoring, functional management, staffing, interviewing, onboarding, and performance support. The role requires on-site work in San Diego or El Segundo, up to 25% travel, and Top Secret and SAP access.

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.

Leads engineering managers and software teams building customer-facing front-end applications and internal and external APIs. Sets technical direction, oversees delivery, manages risks and dependencies, improves engineering quality and security, develops talent, supports hiring, and partners with product and design. The role drives innovation and scalable software solutions for connected vehicle and fleet operations.

Lead a hands-on backend engineering team building low-latency, high-throughput ad-serving and measurement systems. Oversee feature development, architecture, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, code quality, and delivery practices. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to critical designs and code reviews, and mentor engineers while maintaining effective team operations and continuous improvement.

Manage and mentor a software engineering team developing VALORANT gameplay cosmetics. Own premium content technology across artist workflows, out-of-game experiences, and in-game usage. Establish technical vision, guide feature design and delivery, collaborate with art, design, product, and technology teams, recruit engineers, and improve engineering quality. Support team growth, culture, accountability, and long-term talent development while working directly in the codebase.