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85 open Engineering Manager jobs

Real, currently-open Engineering Manager roles synced directly from company career pages. Upload your resume to see which of these match your skills, or browse all open roles. New to the role? Read our Engineering Manager guide.

Hiring snapshot for Engineering Manager

The most common locations right now are San Francisco, CA (6), San Francisco, California, United States (3), United States (3). 10 of these 85 roles (12%) list a remote option. 37 were posted in the last two weeks. By team, the biggest groups are Engineering (85).

Computed from the 85 open listings shown below.

Guide: working as a Engineering Manager

Engineering managers are responsible for a team of engineers rather than a feature list: hiring, one-on-ones, career growth, delivery health and technical direction. They balance shipping commitments against on-call load, tech debt and morale, and are the escalation point when projects or people get stuck.

Core skills employers look for

  • Hiring and interview loop design
  • Running effective one-on-ones
  • Performance feedback and reviews
  • Delivery planning and estimation
  • Technical judgement on design
  • Incident and on-call ownership
  • Managing up and across teams
  • Coaching senior engineers

How to stand out when you apply

  • Describe team outcomes rather than personal code output: engineers you hired or helped promote, a struggling project you turned around, and a process change you introduced and why.
  • Prepare detailed people stories: an underperformer you supported or managed out, a conflict between engineers, and a time you protected the team from an unrealistic deadline.
  • Keep your technical credibility visible. Mention the design decisions you reviewed or made and the systems your team owned, so hiring managers see you can still engage in technical debates.
  • If you are a senior engineer stepping into a first management role, highlight mentoring, leading a multi-person project and running interviews as evidence of readiness.

What the interviews usually cover

Loops usually mix people-management scenarios (giving hard feedback, handling attrition, resolving conflict), a delivery round on how you plan, track and rescue slipping projects, and a system design discussion pitched at reviewing rather than coding. Some companies add a values round. Concrete stories about your own actions and their outcome count for more than management frameworks.

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