Engineering Manager Jobs in Seattle, USA

Looking for an engineering manager job in Seattle? Choose from 24 open roles at 11 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

24 Open roles
11 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Engineering managers in Seattle work on?

The roles span a wide spectrum of engineering domains. At one end, Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security at Anthropic involves leading a group responsible for firmware, boot sequences, attestation, and OS hardening across owned compute hardware, with direct relationships with silicon vendors. Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure, also at Anthropic, focuses on the control plane that routes inference requests, covering scheduling, autoscaling, and cluster orchestration at scale.

On the cloud and distributed systems side, Engineering Manager, Nexus ML at Google calls for leading design of large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems for fleet capacity engineering. Software Engineering Manager, GCS Agentic AI at Google centres on building generative AI systems, with responsibilities including roadmap setting, code review, and coaching. Across the broader sample, titles also reference Android platform, UI platform, GRC, cooperative systems, and embedded engineering, suggesting considerable variety in the domains these managers oversee.

Skills and experience employers ask for

The skills table reflects mentions in posting descriptions across all postings on this page, not stated requirements, and the sample is small enough that a skill appearing in a minority of postings should not be read as rare. LLMs and Python appear in roughly a fifth of postings each, with AWS, APIs, Kubernetes, Java, and CI/CD also mentioned. A PhD is referenced in a handful of postings, indicating it is relevant to some but by no means all roles here.

Python 25%
LLMs 21%
AWS 21%
APIs 21%
Kubernetes 17%
Java 17%
Evaluation 13%
GCP 13%
GPUs 13%
CI/CD 13%
Agents 8%
Fine-tuning 8%
Azure 8%
SQL 8%

Engineering Manager roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels โ€” not an average and not a market rate.

Seattle office, hybrid or remote?

The overwhelming majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite, with only a small number marked hybrid and none listed as fully remote. Candidates should treat onsite as the default expectation across this set of roles. The two hybrid postings are not identified by employer in the fact pack, so it is not possible to say which organisations offer that arrangement. Anyone seeking flexibility should check individual postings carefully, as work-mode details can differ from what a headline listing states.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Review the technical domain first Engineering manager roles here range from hardware security and inference infrastructure to UI platforms and agentic AI. Reading each posting's domain carefully before applying will help you match your specific background to what the team actually works on.
  2. Check experience thresholds carefully The sample summaries cite explicit minimums for both total engineering experience and years managing people; for example, one Anthropic role asks for ten or more years in systems security and five or more years managing senior staff, so verifying you meet the stated bar before applying is worthwhile.
  3. Note the onsite expectation Most postings are listed as onsite in Seattle, so if you are not based locally or able to relocate, confirm the arrangement with the employer before progressing, as remote eligibility is not stated for the large majority of these roles.
  4. Prepare role-specific examples Given the breadth of domains โ€” from ML infrastructure to security to platform engineering โ€” tailoring your examples of team delivery, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder management to the specific area each role covers is likely to be more effective than a generic application.

Questions about Engineering Manager jobs in Seattle

Only two of the postings on this page include advertised pay ranges, both from OpenAI. One lists $510,000โ€“$536,000 and the other $400,000โ€“$445,000. These are individual advertised ranges for specific roles and cannot be taken as representative of all postings here, the majority of which do not state compensation.

None of the postings on this page are listed as remote. Most are listed as onsite, with a small number marked hybrid. Specific hybrid employers are not identified in the available information, so you would need to check individual postings for details.

A PhD is mentioned in the descriptions of a minority of postings on this page. It appears to be relevant to some roles, particularly those with an ML or research-adjacent focus, but it is not referenced across most of the listings. Whether it is a requirement or a preference is not always clear from the descriptions alone.

The employers listed on this page include Anthropic, Brex, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, Axon, and Twitch, alongside others in the full set. Postings are not evenly distributed across them; Anthropic and Brex each account for the largest share.

Based on the sample summaries available, the roles cite substantial experience expectations. One Anthropic posting asks for five or more years managing security or systems engineers including senior staff, while a Google posting asks for three years managing a technical team alongside eight years of software development. Requirements vary by role, so checking each posting individually is necessary.

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