# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Fingerprint](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fingerprint)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Engineering Management, Performance Management, Hiring, Career Development, Cross-Domain Leadership, Architectural Strategy, Technical Vision, Budget Planning, Roadmap Planning, Multi-Team Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> Senior Engineering Manager leading multiple teams or a technical domain. Owns technical vision, people development, cross-functional alignment, and strategic roadmap for Cloud Platform or Security & IT.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### Lead Across Domains
- Own outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams. At this level, your accountability extends beyond a single squad — you are responsible for the health, delivery, and strategic direction of your full domain.
- Develop other managers and senior engineers. Run substantive 1:1s, build succession plans, expose emerging leaders to cross-domain initiatives, and create the conditions for people on your team to grow beyond their current scope.
- Build headcount plans proactively. Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints and bring staffing proposals to leadership with rationale and timing.

### Set Technical Vision
- Define the architectural strategy for your domain. You are not just reviewing designs — you are setting the direction, identifying systemic risks, and making trade-offs visible to leadership before they become incidents.
- Mentor other managers and senior ICs on complex technical trade-offs. Your technical credibility earns trust with engineers; your judgment on architectural decisions shapes how the team builds.
- Proactively surface technical debt and infrastructure risk with a prioritized plan to address it — not after escalation, but before it jeopardizes delivery or reliability.

### Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
- Manage cross-domain dependencies. Align teams across team boundaries with unified direction. Other teams should initiate collaboration with you — not wait to be pulled in.
- Communicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively to the VP of Engineering and relevant stakeholders. Translate complex technical decisions into business context. Come with recommendations, not status updates.
- Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization. Represent your function’s constraints, opportunities, and risks in planning processes.

### Operate with Executive Accountability
- Resolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure. Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full information.
- Own your function’s budget, headcount planning, and operational health with minimal guidance.
- Bring roadmap or architecture proposals unprompted. Think about your team’s impact on the broader engineering org, not just your immediate domain.

## What We’re Looking For

### Required
- Engineering management experience: 5-7+ years managing engineering teams, with at least 2 years at a scope equivalent to managing multiple teams, a large team, or a function with cross-domain accountability.
- Direct ownership of performance management, career development, and hiring — not just running standups or serving as a tech lead.
- Multi-team or cross-domain leadership: You have operated beyond a single squad and navigated dependencies, competing priorities, and alignment challenges across team boundaries.
- Technical depth in your domain: You can set architectural direction, evaluate complex proposals, and earn trust from senior engineers on technical decisions.

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