Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Austin, TX
Software Engineering Manager jobs in Austin are concentrated in the Domain, Downtown, and the East Tech Corridor, with strong demand across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, fintech, and healthtech. Employers hiring right now include Apple, Visa, and The University of Texas at Austin. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead key areas of Vectra's Platform engineering organization. The Platform team builds and operates foundational software, infrastructure, and tooling used by our products, customers, support teams, and engineering teams.
This role is responsible for leading high-performing engineering teams that own critical platform capabilities across appliance software, cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, operational tooling, service reliability, and developer experience. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Support, SRE, Cloud, Detection, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
This is a senior management role for someone who can combine strong technical judgment, operational discipline, people leadership, and cross-functional execution.
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
- Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback for engineers and technical leads.
- Drive predictable delivery through clear planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and consistent follow-through.
- Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Participate in architecture discussions and guide technical direction across platform systems.
- Own operational excellence for team-owned services, including reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
- Improve platform services consumed by internal engineering teams and customer-facing products.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency through AI-assisted development, automation, and better internal tooling.
- Encourage responsible use of AI tools for code understanding, test generation, documentation, operational analysis, and repetitive workflow automation.
- Partner with engineering leaders to evaluate where AI can reduce toil, improve delivery predictability, and help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, or maintainability.
- Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and well-supported by automation.
- Help define and mature service ownership, operational scorecards, and platform standards across teams.
- Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent.
- Communicate clearly with senior leaders about progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs.
Platform Scope
Depending on organizational priorities, this role may lead or influence work across:
- Appliance operating system ownership, upgrades, hardening, packaging, provisioning, and migrations.
- Hardware and virtual appliance platform enablement.
- Cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, networking, databases, reliability, operations, and alerting.
- Device-to-cloud connectivity and customer lifecycle systems.
- CI/CD, build systems, release automation, developer tooling, and engineering workflow automation.
- Observability, telemetry pipelines, service health dashboards, incident trends, and operational reporting.
- Containerization standards, runtime operations, and secure deployment patterns.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including ownership of production software, infrastructure, or platform systems.
- Experience leading teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software.
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to discuss architecture, design, code quality, operations, and delivery tradeoffs.
- Experience with modern software engineering practices including code review, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
- Strong Linux/Unix proficiency.
- Experience managing Agile delivery practices such as sprint planning, retrospectives, roadmap planning, and project visibility.
- Ability to lead cross-team initiatives with complex dependencies and ambiguous ownership boundaries.
- Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, motivate, and grow engineers and technical leads.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Packer, or similar platform tooling.
- Experience with Linux internals, Debian packaging, AppArmor, cgroups, networking, iptables/nftables, or OS-level security.
- Experience with Python, Go, C++, or systems/backend development.
- Experience operating production environments and improving reliability, availability, security, and deployment safety.
- Experience applying AI-assisted tooling, automation, or developer productivity improvements to engineering workflows.
- Interest in using AI to improve software delivery, operational insight, documentation quality, incident analysis, or supportability.
- Experience with telemetry systems including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience with appliance software, virtual appliances, customer-deployed infrastructure, or hybrid cloud products.
- Knowledge of networking, cybersecurity, threat detection, or security operations.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means the Platform team is a trusted partner across engineering: services have clear ownership, teams ship safely and predictably, operational issues are visible and acted on, engineers are growing, and platform investments make the broader product organization faster, safer, and more reliable.
Vectra is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
Vectra® is the leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
The Vectra AI Platform delivers integrated signal across public cloud, SaaS, identity, and data center networks in a single platform. Powered by patented Attack Signal Intelligence, it empowers security teams to rapidly prioritize, investigate and respond to the most advanced cyber-attacks. With 35 patents in AI-driven threat detection and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on the Vectra AI to move at the speed and scale of hybrid attackers. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead key areas of Vectra's Platform engineering organization. The Platform team builds and operates foundational software, infrastructure, and tooling used by our products, customers, support teams, and engineering teams.
This role is responsible for leading high-performing engineering teams that own critical platform capabilities across appliance software, cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, operational tooling, service reliability, and developer experience. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Support, SRE, Cloud, Detection, and other engineering leaders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
This is a senior management role for someone who can combine strong technical judgment, operational discipline, people leadership, and cross-functional execution.
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
- Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback for engineers and technical leads.
- Drive predictable delivery through clear planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and consistent follow-through.
- Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Participate in architecture discussions and guide technical direction across platform systems.
- Own operational excellence for team-owned services, including reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
- Improve platform services consumed by internal engineering teams and customer-facing products.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency through AI-assisted development, automation, and better internal tooling.
- Encourage responsible use of AI tools for code understanding, test generation, documentation, operational analysis, and repetitive workflow automation.
- Partner with engineering leaders to evaluate where AI can reduce toil, improve delivery predictability, and help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, or maintainability.
- Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and well-supported by automation.
- Help define and mature service ownership, operational scorecards, and platform standards across teams.
- Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent.
- Communicate clearly with senior leaders about progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs.
Platform Scope
Depending on organizational priorities, this role may lead or influence work across:
- Appliance operating system ownership, upgrades, hardening, packaging, provisioning, and migrations.
- Hardware and virtual appliance platform enablement.
- Cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, networking, databases, reliability, operations, and alerting.
- Device-to-cloud connectivity and customer lifecycle systems.
- CI/CD, build systems, release automation, developer tooling, and engineering workflow automation.
- Observability, telemetry pipelines, service health dashboards, incident trends, and operational reporting.
- Containerization standards, runtime operations, and secure deployment patterns.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience, including ownership of production software, infrastructure, or platform systems.
- Experience leading teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software.
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to discuss architecture, design, code quality, operations, and delivery tradeoffs.
- Experience with modern software engineering practices including code review, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
- Strong Linux/Unix proficiency.
- Experience managing Agile delivery practices such as sprint planning, retrospectives, roadmap planning, and project visibility.
- Ability to lead cross-team initiatives with complex dependencies and ambiguous ownership boundaries.
- Strong communication, organizational, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, motivate, and grow engineers and technical leads.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Packer, or similar platform tooling.
- Experience with Linux internals, Debian packaging, AppArmor, cgroups, networking, iptables/nftables, or OS-level security.
- Experience with Python, Go, C++, or systems/backend development.
- Experience operating production environments and improving reliability, availability, security, and deployment safety.
- Experience applying AI-assisted tooling, automation, or developer productivity improvements to engineering workflows.
- Interest in using AI to improve software delivery, operational insight, documentation quality, incident analysis, or supportability.
- Experience with telemetry systems including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience with appliance software, virtual appliances, customer-deployed infrastructure, or hybrid cloud products.
- Knowledge of networking, cybersecurity, threat detection, or security operations.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means the Platform team is a trusted partner across engineering: services have clear ownership, teams ship safely and predictably, operational issues are visible and acted on, engineers are growing, and platform investments make the broader product organization faster, safer, and more reliable.
Vectra is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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Who's Hiring
- Apple49
- Visa16
- The University of Texas at Austin16
- University of Texas at Austin13
- CVS Health10
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware26
- Education20
- Banking & Financial Services20
- Insurance3
- Consulting & Professional Services3
Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Austin: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a software engineering manager job in Austin?
The strongest path into a software engineering manager role in Austin runs through the city's dense enterprise software and cloud infrastructure sectors, particularly companies based in the Domain and East Tech Corridor. Candidates who have led distributed engineering teams, shipped products at scale, or come up through Austin's fintech and healthtech ecosystems have a clear edge. Prior exposure to Austin's startup-to-enterprise pipeline also signals well to local hiring managers.
Which companies hire software engineering managers in Austin?
Employers hiring software engineering managers in Austin right now include Apple, Visa, and The University of Texas at Austin, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Austin's hiring mix leans toward high-growth tech companies, Fortune 500 engineering divisions that relocated here, and mid-stage startups scaling their product teams.
Are there remote software engineering manager jobs in Austin?
Yes, though remote availability depends on the employer, since software engineering managers often need regular presence for team rituals, planning sessions, and cross-functional alignment. About 52% of software engineering manager openings tied to Austin are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, with hybrid schedules concentrated among larger enterprise employers in the Domain. Fully remote roles appear most often with distributed-first product companies headquartered in Austin but operating globally.
How can I get a software engineering manager job in Austin with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a tech lead or senior engineer role at one of Austin's mid-size software companies, then stepping into management as the team grows. Austin's fintech and healthtech startups regularly promote strong senior engineers into first-time manager seats rather than hiring externally. Volunteering to lead a squad, own an on-call rotation, or mentor junior engineers at your current Austin employer signals readiness before a formal title change.
Which industries hire the most software engineering managers in Austin?
The sectors hiring the most software engineering managers in Austin are Electronics & Hardware, Education, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Austin's position as a hub for enterprise software relocation and a growing life sciences corridor means engineering management demand is spread across both mature product organizations and early-stage teams scaling quickly.
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