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Engineering Manager Jobs Hiring Now (July 2026)
Engineering managers lead teams of engineers. The role blends people leadership, technical judgment, hiring, and partnership with product and design to ship outcomes.
Engineering Manager market snapshot
Live from PrismCV's job catalog. Salaries reflect postings that publish a range; remote share excludes postings without a location tag.
Engineering manager postings describe at least three different jobs under one title. At an early-stage startup, the EM is a player-coach: hiring the first engineers, still writing code 30 to 50% of the time, and building process from nothing. At a scaled company, the EM runs an existing team of 6 to 10, owns performance and delivery, and stays out of the critical path of the code. At some organizations the title is attached to what is really a delivery or program management job: coordinating work across teams with no direct reports. The interview loops, the day-to-day, and the growth paths differ completely. Read the responsibilities section, not the title.
The 2026 market reflects the management-layer thinning of recent years: fewer EM seats, and the ones that remain carry a higher technical bar. Postings increasingly expect EMs to hold their own in architecture discussion, run technically credible design review, and have a grounded position on AI-assisted development: where coding assistants help their team, what review standards change, and how to measure the effect. Pure people-and-process EM profiles face a harder market than they once did, and the player-coach end of the spectrum is growing, especially at startups running smaller, AI-leveraged teams.
Posting language tells you the scope if you read for it. A named team size and composition signals an established team. "Hire and build your team" means the job is recruiting-heavy for the first two quarters. "Manage senior engineers and tech leads" suggests an experienced group that needs trust rather than direction. "Manage managers" is a director-track role regardless of title. A posting that emphasizes stakeholder coordination, dependencies, and delivery without ever mentioning reports, hiring, or performance is describing program management.
Warning signs worth a direct question in the first call: no team size anywhere in the posting; an EM role open because the previous team largely left (ask what happened); a manager role reporting into a non-technical executive with no engineering leadership above it; and any posting that lists hands-on coding plus full management of 10 or more people, which is two jobs.
Use the listings below as your inbound feed. PrismCV crawls the major boards and de-duplicates across them. EM openings are fewer than IC openings and more relationship-driven, so treat each application as high-touch: tailor the resume to the posting's scope and work a referral or warm intro in parallel with the portal application. The ATS Checker scores your resume against any posting before you commit to it.
Companies hiring engineering managers now
The five companies with the most active openings in this role today.
Latest open positions
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Engineering Manager, Community Support Engineering
Airbnb · China
Machine Learning Engineering Manager - Fraud Detection
Stripe · N/A · Remote
Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure
GitLab · Bangalore, India
Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades
GitLab · Bangalore, India
Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain
GitLab · Bangalore, India
Engineering Manager, Observability, Monitoring, and Integrations (Monetization)
GitLab · Bangalore, India
Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media
Twilio · Remote - US · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media
Twilio · Remote - Ontario, Canada (DNU) · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media
Twilio · Remote - Alberta, Canada (DNU) · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media
Twilio · Remote - United Kingdom · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager V&V Media
Twilio · Remote - Ireland · Remote
Engineering Manager, Server Networking Security (Rust)
MongoDB · Cork, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland
Engineering Manager, Platform Reliability
Asana · Warsaw
Engineering Manager, Agentic AI
Robinhood · Menlo Park, CA
Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Washington, DC
Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security
Cursor · New York · Remote
Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA
Senior Engineering Manager, Claims
Collective Health · San Francisco, CA | Lehi, UT | Plano, TX
Senior Engineering Manager, Product
Render · Remote: United States · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering
Omada Health · Remote, USA · Remote
Engineering Manager, AI & App Experience
Chime · New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity
GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, US · Remote
Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure
GitLab · Remote, Bangalore · Remote
Engineering Manager, Decision Advantage
Vannevar Labs · Remote · Remote
Senior Engineering Manager, Rider Loyalty, Partnerships, and Rider Pay
Lyft · Toronto, Canada
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Frequently asked questions
Most first EM roles are internal: a senior engineer or tech lead takes over their own team or a sibling team. If you are applying externally for a first EM role, the resume needs explicit management-shaped evidence (tech lead scope, hiring, incident command, onboarding ownership), and your best targets are companies hiring player-coaches, where recent IC strength carries more weight. Expect a lower response rate than senior IC applications get; the pool of external first-time EM hires is small.
More than for IC roles. EM hiring is a trust decision: the company is handing you its engineers, and a bad hire damages a whole team rather than one workstream. Hiring managers routinely backchannel EM candidates through mutual connections, so former reports and peers are part of your application whether you list them or not. Working the referral path forward, ideally a warm intro to the hiring director, meaningfully changes response rates.
Domain match matters most where the technical bar is highest: infrastructure and platform teams usually want managers who have built similar systems, because design review and incident judgment depend on it. Product engineering teams flex more, and a strong people and delivery record can carry a domain switch. Check whether the posting lists specific technologies as requirements or as context, and address the gap directly in your application rather than hoping it goes unnoticed.
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