Senior Engineering Manager

Adobe•New York, NY

About The Position

Frame.io, an Adobe Company, is changing the future of how videos are made by helping millions of creative professionals seamlessly collaborate from all over the world. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with deep technical experience, a strong track record of developing engineering leadership, and a passion for building high-performing teams. In this role, you will manage a mix of Engineering Managers and senior Individual Contributors, reporting directly to Engineering leadership. You will be responsible for the overall health, direction, and output of multiple teams, while growing both the next generation of engineering leaders and the senior technical talent at Frame.io. Engineering at Frame.io is about more than just code and infrastructure. It is about making an impact, crafting unique experiences, and building products that inspire creativity. We work with petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of video encodes per day, and take on the challenges that come from working at the very forefront of delivering Enterprise-grade secure collaboration experiences. As a leader of leaders, you set the standard for what great engineering management looks like. Success in this role means building and sustaining a culture where managers and engineers do the best work of their careers.

Requirements

10+ years of overall technical experience, including deep knowledge of architecture and operations of highly available, large-scale services
Demonstrated experience managing a mix of Engineering Managers and senior Individual Contributors, with a track record of developing strong leaders and unlocking the potential of teams of teams
Experience planning, implementing, and delivering complex projects across multiple squads, turning ambiguous ideas into shipped reality
Knowledge of common service design and operational considerations including how systems scale, how they fit together, and how they are likely to break
Strong desire to foster a working environment that is enriching, inclusive, and safe, where people of all backgrounds and identities feel welcome
Experience with public cloud infrastructure, networking, architecture, and Linux, as well as orchestration, monitoring, automation, and configuration management solutions
Ability to analyze and address difficult technical challenges and make efficient use of resources
Experience working across a full web application stack, with familiarity spanning frontend and backend technologies. We use React, Next.js, Apollo Client, TypeScript, GraphQL Codegen, and Styled Components on the frontend and Elixir, Postgres, OpenSearch, Redis, and AWS on the backend
Passion for collaborating with design, product, and user insights from concept to production
A track record of delivering beautiful and performant software with a strong sense of quality

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and grow a mix of Engineering Managers and senior Individual Contributors, meeting each person where they are and helping them reach the next level
Help your Engineering Managers become exceptional leaders in their own right, providing structured mentorship and raising the bar for what great EM culture looks like
Directly mentor and advocate for senior ICs, providing technical guidance, career pathing, and opportunities to expand their impact
Provide regular feedback and career development support across all of your direct reports
Partner with EMs on team health, delivery cadence, and the growth and retention of their individual contributors
Work closely with partners across product, design, and the broader engineering org to create a meaningful vision and roadmap spanning multiple squads
Ensure alignment across your teams on priorities, architecture direction, and cross-squad dependencies
Champion engineering excellence with a focus on performance, scalability, privacy, and security
Rapidly form action plans to align workstreams across squads, eliminate communication gaps, and ensure team needs are appropriately represented
Lead hiring efforts across your organization, at the EM and senior IC level, partnering with recruiting to attract and retain top talent
Help drive culture and process improvements across the broader engineering organization
Co-own the strategy for your squads alongside your product and design partners and senior leadership
Provide technical leadership and be accountable for the technical direction across the teams in your organization