Top Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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 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 a team of 5+ engineers building scalable game-platform services (game provisioning, data delivery, leaderboards). Manage hiring, onboarding, performance, and career growth. Own technical roadmap, design reviews, code reviews, and live service operations including on-call troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability and scalability.

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

Lead multiple engineering teams for VALORANT, overseeing service development, performance management, and cross-team collaboration, while driving technical direction and operational excellence.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

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

Leads and mentors a cross-functional software engineering team, managing career development, performance, and resource allocation. Owns delivery of operating system features, including timelines, risks, and dependencies. Serves as a technical liaison for customers and stakeholders, translating operational capabilities into software requirements. Interprets aerospace and safety-critical standards into actionable engineering work while ensuring compliant, secure delivery.

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

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 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.