20 Best Engineering Leadership Podcasts

1. Dev Interrupted

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Dev Interrupted is the go-to podcast for software engineering leadership. Each week, hosts Andrew Zigler, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Dan Lines sit down with industry experts to explore the strategies, struggles, and stories behind high-performing software teams. Paired with weekly industry news coverage, the conversations dive deep into the real challenges that define excellence in modern tech.MORE Hosts Dan Lines, Ben Lloyd Pearson, Andrew Zigler
Producer/Network LinearB
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2. Engineering Founders

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The show for engineering leaders making the leap to start their own company! We dive into the stories, pivotal moments and critical insights from former eng leaders turned founders, that helped them take those early leaps to launch their own company!MORE Hosts Patrick Gallagher, Jerry Li
Producer/Network The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3Twitter 736 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. Level-up Engineering

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Level-Up Engineering brings you actionable management insights straight from top tech leaders. Each episode tackles real challenges faced by engineering managers—like hiring, motivating teams, and scaling organizations—and shares how they have navigated them.Discover best practices in management and leadership to master the art of understanding people and organizations, just as well as you understand code.Brought to you by **Apex Lab**, a software development agency creating stress-free, expert-led digital products...MORE Host Karolina Toth
Producer/Network Apex Lab
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 23Facebook 756Twitter 502Instagram 151 Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Tech Lead Journal

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Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.MORE Host Henry Suryawirawan
Producer/Network Henry Suryawirawan
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 30 Avg Length 70 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Engineering Leadership Excellence Podcast

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What does it take to be a great leader? We asked some of the most influential names in software engineering and product management. You'll learn ways to grow as a software engineering leader, optimize your time, develop your team, structure your organization, and get the right products to market, faster. In each episode, Joshua Samberg and Robin Pokorný uncover the empowering insights and daily habits of industry leaders who think, speak, and act in ways that make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others.MORE Hosts Joshua Samberg, Robin Pokornu00fd
Producer/Network Productboard
Email ****@productboard.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 54Facebook 637Instagram 5.9K Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Developing Leadership

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Follow Jason Warner (MD at Redpoint Ventures and former CTO of GitHub) and Eiso Kant (Founder and CEO of Athenian) as they chat about the biggest lessons they've learned about Engineering Leadership throughout the years.MORE Hosts Eiso Kant, Jason Warner
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 39Twitter 1.4K Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. The Tech Trek

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The Tech Trek explores how engineering leaders build teams that deliver real outcomes. The show looks at the connection between people, impact, and technology, and how that relationship is changing fast with data and AI now at the center of every product and company. Hosted by Amir Bormand, founder of Elevano, the show features CTOs, VPs of Engineering, heads of data, and technical leaders who have built and scaled teams in high pressure environments. They share the decisions that shaped their path, the experiments that worked, and the thinking they rely on to stay ahead in a world defined byMORE Host Amir Bormand
Producer/Network Elevano
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 54Facebook 120Twitter 60Instagram 134 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. The Engineering Leadership Podcast

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We share the most critical perspectives, habits & examples of great software engineering leaders to help evolve leadership in the tech industry. Join our community of software engineering leaders @ www.sfelc.com!MORE Host Patrick Gallagher
Producer/Network The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 38Twitter 736 Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. The Retrospective

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The Retrospective: A Podcast for Engineering LeadersIf you want to learn more about leading engineering teams, this podcast can help you improve your skills and grow in your role.We are Péter Szász and Jeremy Brown, experienced technology leaders and your hosts.We created this podcast to help people who manage tech teams or want to learn how to do so.We cover principles and concepts, provide how-to guides and tools to help you meet common challenges, share stories from our experiences, and offer advice on how to be effective leaders in the tech world.Each 20-30-minute episode discusses one..MORE Producer/Network Jeremy Brown & Péter Szász
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10. Merge to main

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Merge to Main is a podcast where we talk with people who've been in the trenches of tech leadership. No fancy buzzwords or corporate speak - just honest conversations about what it's actually like to build and lead engineering teams. Each week, we explore the real challenges of engineering leadership - from hiring and team culture to shipping quality products. Practical, no-nonsense conversations that help you become a better leader today.MORE Estimated listeners
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11. CTO Insights Podcast

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CTO Insights is a podcast on engineering leadership that brings you insights from senior engineering leaders and experts on creating a culture of high performance. ctoinsights.adevait.com
Producer/Network Katerina Trajchevska
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12. People Driven Development

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There are a number of ways to develop software: Test-driven, Behavior-driven, Product-driven, Customer-driven (to name a few). But once you move into engineering leadership, you're no longer dealing with software directly.It's all about People Driven Development.How do you work with people to drive this engineering product forward?How do you manage people so they feel seen, respected, emotionally safe, challenged, and empowered?How do you deliver business results and also focus relentlessly on people?Eddie and Morgan try to help their fellow engineering leaders through difficult situations w..MORE Producer/Network Eddie Flaisler, Morgan VanDerLeest
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Better Engineering & Management

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The aim of this channel is to Transition Engineers into Confident Managers.On this podcast, we discuss various topics on handling teams, organisational culture, Engineering Design Patterns and various challenges faced by Engineering ManagersMORE Estimated listeners
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14. Tech Teams Today

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Tech Teams Today dives into how top engineering leaders are building, leading and scaling high-performing teams of engineers and developers in the new world of work. Get unfiltered, fresh ideas to help propel your teams and your own tech leadership career.Tech Teams Today is brought to you by Revelo, the platform used by leading US companies to find, hire and pay full-time, remote engineers based in Latin America. Learn more at www.revelo.comMORE Producer/Network Revelo
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15. Mastering Engineering Leadership

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Are you an engineer looking to go beyond your technical expertise to become an impactful leader? Join Dr. Angelique Adams each week as she features engineers in leadership roles. They discuss their career journeys, dissect real-life leadership challenges they've tackled, and share actionable advice on how to achieve success as a leader with an engineering background. Whether you're an aspiring leader or a seasoned engineer looking to grow, join us. Mastering Engineering Leadership—your journey to becoming an exceptional engineer leader starts here.MORE Producer/Network Angelique Adams
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16. Minimum Viable Management

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Minimum Viable Management is a podcast where Mike McQuaid and Neha Batra talk about the messy, human side of engineering leadership. From one-on-ones and feedback to servant leadership, product engineering arguments and career growth, they share hard-won lessons from GitHub, open source and startups. Pragmatic, sweary and focused on what actually works, not performative management theatre.MORE Email ****@mikemcquaid.com
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