Top 37 Software engineering director Jobs in San Diego, Ca

Director, Software Engineering
AppFolio —San Diego, CA
- $216,300 - $270,000 a year
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Bachelor of Science
- System design
Associate Director of IT
Neomorph, Inc. —San Diego, CA
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- Computer Science
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FairSquare —San Diego, CA
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- Full-time
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- Computer Science
Director, Yield Architecture & Engineering
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
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Senior Director, AI Product Management - Data Center
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $227,700 - $341,500 a year
- Remote
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Data analysis skills
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Director, Reporting & Analytics Engineering
XIFIN —San Diego, CA
- $166,500 - $200,350 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Management
- Computer Science
- Wellness program
- Health savings account
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Director, Information Technology-3754
Mitchell 1 Group —San Diego, CA
- $180,000 - $220,000 a year
- Full-time
- 7 years
- Computer Science
- Office
Sr. Director, AI
Syner-G —San Diego, CA
- Remote
- Azure
- Computer Science
- 11+ years
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
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Associate Director, AI/ML Engineering
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. —San Diego, CA
- $172,000 - $215,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Computer science
- 7 years
- Computer Science
- Paid parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
Director of Engineering, Automotive
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $207,600 - $311,400 a year
- Computer science
- 6 years
- Computer Science
Associate Director R&D AI Solutions & Analytics
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. —San Diego, CA
- $156,000 - $195,600 a year
- Hybrid work
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Office
- Paid parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
Sr. Director, Data Platform Engineering & Operations
PlayStation Global —San Diego, CA
- $286,000 - $429,000 a year
- Azure
- Computer Science
- 11+ years
- Wellness program
- Health insurance
Director, Product Management - Data Center CPU
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $229,800 - $344,800 a year
- Computer Science
- Writing skills
- Engineering
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Firm Enterprise Solutions Director - Group Engineering Leader
Deloitte —San Diego, CA
- $151,400 - $311,000 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- System design
Associate Director, Clinical Data Systems and Informatics
ClearNote Health —San Diego, CA
- $155,000 - $190,000 a year
- Full-time
- 7 years
- SQL
- Software development
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Director Product Management
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $196,000 - $294,000 a year
- Computer Science
- Writing skills
- Engineering
Sr. Director Systems Engineer
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $251,200 - $376,800 a year
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Engineering
Principal / Director – Robotics System Architecture Lead
Qualcomm —San Diego, CA
- $242,300 - $363,500 a year
- Computer science
- 6 years
- Computer Science

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Director, Software Engineering

AppFolio -
San Diego, CA

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Job Details

Full-time
$216,300 - $270,000 a year

Qualifications

AI models
Software engineering
High availability solutions design
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Enterprise software
Improving system uptime or availability
Talent management
UI design systems
System design
Managing IT teams
Team leader (DevOps)
Scalable systems
Machine learning projects
ROI
Enterprise software systems development
Infrastructure architecture design
System design for system development
Team development
Production systems
Collaboration with product development teams
Supervising experience
Model deployment
SRE
Terraform
Technology industry recruitment
Systems engineering
Cloud Native Design
Leading team collaboration initiatives
Argo CD
Agile software development

Full Job Description

Hi, We’re AppFolio

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company – we’re pioneers in cloud and AI who deliver magical experiences that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing how people do business in the real estate industry, and we want your ideas, enthusiasm, and passion to help us keep innovating.

The Director of Engineering, Developer Productivity will manage and continue to grow a world‐class platform engineering organization for our award-winning products. You will drive the successful delivery of the internal developer platform (IDP) and developer tools while contributing to the overarching engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap.

This opportunity is ideal for an engineering leader who specializes in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience (DevEx). You won’t just be maintaining legacy scripts; you will lead the teams responsible for architecting and scaling our proprietary internal development ecosystem. You will oversee the network of services—including a unified deployment engine, a front-end service layer, and a comprehensive CI/automation suite—ensuring that every engineer in our organization can ship code that is secure, compliant, and high-quality at high velocity. We are looking for a forward-thinking leader who can also harness the power of today’s AI advancements to revolutionize the SDLC, automating code reviews, test generation, and deployment health checks at scale.

The location for the position is Santa Barbara, CA or San Diego.

Your Impact

Platform Strategy & Technical Architecture

Set the technical direction for the Internal Developer Platform, ensuring seamless "Golden Paths" for developers across distributed microservices.
Oversee the engineering of the Front-End Service Layer (FSL), ensuring a unified, high-performance UI framework and component library that bridges the gap between design and production.
Act as the primary technical counterpart for SRE and Security teams, translating reliability and compliance requirements into automated, invisible guardrails within the developer workflow.

Operational Excellence, CI/CD & Test Automation

Build automated Deployment and Delivery frameworks that enable high-confidence releases through canary deployments, blue-green shifts, and automated rollbacks.
Partner with InfoSec and SRE to ensure all delivery pipelines adhere to SOC 2, secure supply chain standards (SLSA), and automated vulnerability scanning.
Advocate for a SMART codebase (Simple, Maintainable, Agile, Refactored, and Tested) to deliver a SAFE platform (Secure, Available, Fast, and Easy).
Drive the strategy for integrating AI/ML models into the developer workflow to identify flaky tests, suggest code optimizations, and automate complex infrastructure-as-code (IaC) migrations that manual efforts miss.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

Recruit, screen, and close high-caliber engineering talent, scaling three distinct current teams: Deployment/Delivery, Front-End Service Layer, and CI/Dev Tooling.
and a potential future backend development team.
Lead, coach, and support a team of passionate platform engineers, creating an environment of creativity and speed while maintaining the discipline required for foundational infrastructure.
Instill a sense of Product Ownership over the developer experience, ensuring the team treats internal developers as Tier-1 customers.

Strategic Collaboration & Resource Management

Build trusting relationships with Product Management and SRE teams to align platform resources with company strategy, balancing immediate developer needs with long-term architectural investments.
Experience with GetDX, JellyFish, or other developer metrics used to continuously improve the developer experience and productivity

Must Haves

Experience & Education

BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
8+ years of hands-on software development experience building enterprise SaaS or cloud-based platforms.
5+ years of demonstrated success hiring, managing, and retaining world-class engineering teams.
Proven track record leading platform or "Engineering Excellence" teams during a transition to hyper-growth.

Platform & Developer Domain Expertise

Experience building proprietary CI/CD platforms (e.g., ArgoCD, or custom GitHub Actions orchestration) and internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage).
Deep understanding of Build Systems (e.g. Bazel) and Test Automation strategies for large-scale distributed systems.
Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and containerized workflows.

Technical Architecture & Systems Design

Strong grasp of frontend architecture, design system integration, and the challenges of scaling front-end service layers.
Demonstrated ability to design "self-healing" pipelines that maintain 99.999% platform availability for the engineering org.
Experience partnering with Data Science to operationalize AI-assisted engineering tools (LLM-based coding assistants, automated observability) within the internal toolchain.
Diverse technical background with in depth experience across a range of architectures and technologies. Hands-on experience with all layers of the stack from infrastructure, persistence, backend, frontend, observability, etc for products at scale.

Leadership & Methodology

Recent experience using Agile methodologies and a deep understanding of Release Management workflows.
Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships (SRE, Security, Product).

Customer Obsessed

Treat engineers as customers. Build a deep understanding of developer pain points through continuous listening (interviews, shadowing, telemetry) and translate that into a prioritized roadmap.
Start from the developer experience and work backwards. Define success in terms of measurable improvements to engineer flow, reliability, and time-to-value.
Be the voice of engineering. Advocate for platform/productivity investments with clear ROI, tying improvements to delivery speed, quality, and operational excellence.
Build trust through responsiveness. Run tight feedback loops, publish what you heard, what you shipped, and what’s next—so teams see their input reflected in outcomes.
Reduce toil relentlessly. Identify repetitive work and eliminate it via tooling, automation, paved roads, and self-service

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $216,300-$270,000 plus equity and an annual incentive bonus.

The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.

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