Engineering Leader: Scale Teams & Platform

Zoom; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to help grow and inspire the engineering organization, guiding strategy and delivery across the stack. You will lead with a focus on scalability, reliability, and customer delight, while partnering with product, design, and business teams to accelerate the roadmap.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, 2+ years in people management, and a track record of building high-performing, diverse teams using back-end and cloud technologies like

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading teams.
• Demonstrate ability to deliver large, complex projects while keeping teams unblocked.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations at a fast-growing startup or tech company.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute engineering strategy; align technical direction with business goals.
• Build and scale the team; recruit, retain, and mentor engineers and managers.
• Drive execution at scale with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders.
• Champion engineering excellence; establish standards for architecture and observability.
• Contribute to hiring practices, onboarding, and organizational design.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Strategy alignment

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Node.js/TypeScript

Job description

Zoom seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to help grow and inspire the engineering organization, guiding strategy and delivery across the stack. You will lead with a focus on scalability, reliability, and customer delight, while partnering with product, design, and business teams to accelerate the roadmap.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, 2+ years in people management, and a track record of building high-performing, diverse teams using back-end and cloud technologies like