Last updated 2026-06-18

703 Software Engineering Leadership jobs in San Francisco ()

Browse 703 Software Engineering Leadership jobs across San Francisco, including Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Head of Engineering roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.

Software Engineering Leadership jobs in San Francisco

Browse Software Engineering Leadership jobs in San Francisco from companies including Salesforce, Inc., Google, Roblox, OpenAI, Docusign, Crusoe, and Pinterest.

  • Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Head of Engineering.
  • Roles span entry, senior, mid, and intern levels.
  • Recent postings include software engineer, engineering manager, product manager, software engineering, and technical program roles.
  • Most listed roles are in San Francisco (604), with openings also in San Mateo (35), Oakland (16), South San Francisco (9), and Alameda (7).
  • Reported pay for Software Engineering Leadership jobs near San Francisco ranges around $164,700-$300,000 annually (P25-P75 across 578 postings that disclosed pay).
  • Hourly Software Engineering Leadership roles near San Francisco pay a median rate of $60/hr based on 6 postings.
  • Explore Software Engineering Leadership salaries in California in Salary Explorer.

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Google

San Francisco entry
As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Application Modernization, you will partner with technical Sales teams to… Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, and PaaS. About the job When leading compa…

Athelas

San Francisco senior Full Time
Own the platform roadmap across all pillars: cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, developer experience, intra-service securi… Hands-on expertise across the platform stack: networking and traffic management, compute orchestration (Kubernetes), datastores, Infrastruc…

Asana

San Francisco senior
As the Head of Engineering Operations, you will be a key leadership partner to the CTO and the engineering leadership… Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing, global team of engineering operations professionals and Technical Program Managers to steer compl…
San Francisco senior Full Time $171.2k-215.3k/yr
Provides technical leadership across Salesforce, Kahua, Snowflake, and related technologies while helping balance technical, business, and… Experience leading developers, mentoring junior engineers, and guiding cross‑functional teams (mirroring expectations for senior engineerin…

SquareTrade

San Francisco mid Full Time $160k-190k/yr
The Software Managing Engineer is a hands-on leadership role, committing to pair-programming and test-driven development. The Software Managing Engineer influences team and business results.
San Mateo mid $201.4k-302k/yr
Experience managing software engineering teams delivering large-scale platform, system software, mobile, or consumer products. Responsibilities People Leadership & Team Management Lead, mentor, and grow a team of experienced software engineers, fostering a culture o…

Menlo

San Francisco mid Full Time
What You Will Bring - 5 or more years of product management experience, with demonstrated depth in developer tooling, infrastructure,… What You Will Do - Own the product roadmap across Menlo Platform and related software infrastructure, working with engineering leads…

OpenAI

San Francisco mid Full Time
About the Role We are looking for experienced full-stack engineers to join our new Agent Enablement team. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong full-stack engineering skills and experience shipping customer-facing products from conce…

Metriport

San Francisco senior Full Time
Requirements You have 3+ years experience supporting software implementation Full-stack experience: React, TypeScript, Node.js. Working with customers from onboarding to production roll-out.

Compa

San Francisco senior Full Time
You'll work across the stack, partner closely with Product and Design, and ship features that directly impact our customers. The Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have real ownership over the software and systems behind Compa's core products.
San Francisco mid Full Time $206k-275k/yr
Highly experienced, often with 20 or more years of progressive software engineering experience, including technical leadership of large-sca… Experience leading architectural modernization or large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
San Francisco mid Full Time
The Role We're looking for a Developer Platform Engineer to own and evolve the systems that keep our engineering organization… What you’ll do Build and operate the engineering platform that enables developers to build, test, and ship software efficiently and…
San Francisco senior Full Time $218.4k-365.2k/yr
As a Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will lead a high-impact team of engineers and product managers embedded directly… Unlike traditional customer success or sales roles, this position sits within the Engineering organization.

Pivotal Health

San Francisco senior Full Time $180k-210k/yr
Support and grow engineers: Coach engineers on execution, communication, and ownership across both IC and managerial tracks. About the Role We're hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Pivotal's Integrations team, a backend-focused group building the infras…
San Francisco mid Full Time
This is a foundational engineering hire. What You’ll Own Product Engineering - Design, build, and ship product features across the stack, from database design and APIs…

Magical

San Francisco mid Full Time
What You’ll Do Set the technical direction for core agent systems—automation building, runtime reliability, evaluations, and observability… You’ve led complex backend or platform projects with real production impact You turn ambiguous product goals into clear, executable technic…

Salesforce, Inc.

San Francisco senior Full Time $172.5k-260.1k/yr
You have strong knowledge of Android languages, frameworks, and libraries including Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, ViewModel, Room, WorkMan… Lead complex technical and product efforts, provide technical guidance to peers, and mentor team members through code reviews, tech talks,…

Wells Fargo

Concord senior Full Time
You will join a focused team of engineers and application support professionals driving adoption of observability, automation, and Site Rel… This position is responsible for designing and advancing full-stack observability for ETL pipelines, integrations, and data movement across…

Sierra

San Francisco mid Full Time $180k-390k/yr
You'll be the product owner embedded within a dedicated team, responsible for the full quality and evolution of production AI… You own the customer experience end to end — running evaluations, digging into failures, identifying the highest leverage experience improv…

Docusign

San Francisco senior Full Time $164.7k-266k/yr
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering. What you bring Basic 8+ years of related industry experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Experience in at…

Netapp

San Francisco mid
Refine by keyword Add Job Category Amer Sales 1 Business Operations 1 Cloud 2 Sales 1 Systems Engineering 1 Country… Join our talent network Social Connect with us on LinkedIn , Facebook , Instagram , and X .

Natera

South San Francisco senior
Operate at the frontier of AI-augmented software engineering. Technical Leadership: Lead architecture and design reviews.

Amazon

San Francisco mid
You Will: - Lead projects requiring work from multiple engineers — owning end-to-end design, integration of parallel work, and delivery… This is a hands-on engineering role — you'll write production code, own team-level architecture, and lead multi-engineer projects from desi…
San Francisco senior $179.5k/yr
You might also have Prior Forward Deployed Engineer, internal tooling, or solutions engineering experience at a company doing serious AI… The opportunity Unity is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with departments across the company and transform how…

Okta

San Francisco senior $165k/yr
The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity In this role, you will be the technical anchor for our partner ecosystem technology. We are seeking an independent Senior Software Engineer to join our formed Sales and Partners Technology Team.
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