[Remote] Senior Engineering Manager

Note The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Adobe is a leading company empowering creativity and productivity through innovative platforms. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and develop engineering teams, drive technical and organizational strategy, and build a scalable organization within Frame.io, an Adobe Company. 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 Skills 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 Benefits Comprehensive benefits programs Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award Company Overview Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions. It was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http//www.adobe.com. Company H1B Sponsorship Adobe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 129 in 2026, 1160 in 2025, 1217 in 2024, 750 in 2023, 878 in 2022, 742 in 2021, 477 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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