Sr. Engineering Manager, Frontline Engineering

Job Description

We are Omnissa! Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost. Guided by our Core Values—Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value—we’re growing rapidly and committed to delivering meaningful impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of work, we’d love to hear from you. At Omnissa, we are committed to maintaining a fair, consistent, and secure hiring process for all candidates. As part of this approach, we use standard interview and verification practices designed to ensure alignment and protect both candidates and the organization. These practices are applied thoughtfully and with respect for candidate privacy.

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Frontline Engineering team within UEM Engineering. This team serves as a critical bridge between customers, Support, and Product Engineering. The team takes ownership of complex and high-impact customer escalations that require deep technical investigation, helping identify root causes, drive issues toward resolution, and ensure that learnings from escalations translate into improvements in product quality and engineering practices.

As the Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a team of strong technical engineers who can independently investigate complex issues across the Workspace ONE UEM platform. You will partner closely with Product Engineering, Technical Support, Product Management, TPMs, and Quality Engineering to improve escalation handling and reduce recurring customer issues. You will also help evolve the Frontline Engineering function by leveraging AI, automation, and improved diagnostics to accelerate investigations, reduce manual effort, identify recurring patterns, and turn customer escalations into actionable engineering insights. This is an engineering leadership role with a strong focus on technical depth, customer impact, operational excellence, AI-driven innovation, and continuous product improvement.

What You’ll Do

• Build, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Frontline Engineers.
• Own engineering engagement and execution for complex, high-priority customer escalations.
• Act as the frontline layer for Product Engineering, absorbing and resolving escalations so development teams experience less unplanned, interrupt-driven work and can focus on planned roadmap execution.
• Establish clear processes for escalation intake, prioritization, investigation, ownership, and resolution.
• Partner closely with Product Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues and identify defects, regressions, configuration issues, and product gaps.
• Drive strong RCA practices, including clear documentation of root causes, contributing factors, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Identify patterns and trends across customer escalations and translate those insights into product and quality improvements.
• Partner with Quality Engineering and development teams to identify gaps in test coverage and recommend additional automated or regression testing based on real-world customer issues.
• Help prioritize fixes and patch candidates based on customer impact, severity, risk, and technical analysis.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted tools to improve escalation triage, troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and resolution time.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to analyze logs, telemetry, historical escalations, and known issues to accelerate technical investigations.
• Leverage AI and automation to identify recurring failure patterns and proactively surface potential product quality issues.
• Define and track metrics that measure the effectiveness of the Frontline Engineering function, including escalation volume, resolution time, recurring issues across customers, and reduction in Product Engineering time spent on escalations.
• Develop engineers’ technical depth and their ability to independently troubleshoot complex distributed systems and enterprise environments.
• Participate in hiring and growing the Frontline Engineering organization as the function expands.

What will you bring to Omnissa?

• Proven experience leading engineers in software engineering, escalation engineering, sustaining engineering, or a similar technical organization.
• Strong technical background with experience troubleshooting complex enterprise software and distributed systems.
• Experience investigating production or customer-reported issues and driving them through root‑cause analysis and resolution.
• Strong understanding of software development, testing, debugging, release, and patching processes.
• Ability to work across engineering teams and drive resolution when issues span multiple components or ownership boundaries.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to identify patterns across seemingly unrelated customer issues.
• Experience using logs, telemetry, diagnostics, APIs, databases, and other troubleshooting tools to investigate complex technical problems.
• Ability to balance customer urgency with engineering priorities and long‑term product quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to communicate technical issues clearly to engineering leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, develop, and grow engineers.
• Strong interest in applying AI and automation to improve engineering efficiency, troubleshooting, and customer outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise mobility management, endpoint management, device management, SaaS platforms, or large‑scale enterprise software.
• Experience with Workspace ONE UEM or similar endpoint management platforms is a strong plus.
• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering and support organizations.
• Experience with automation, observability, diagnostics, and engineering productivity tools.
• Experience using customer escalation data to influence engineering priorities, test strategy, and product quality.

Location: Atlanta, GA or Mountain View, CA

Location Type: hybrid

Travel Expectations: None

Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Compensation: The typical base salary for this role is between USD $177,000 - 325,000 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors.

In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.

Omnissa is an Equal Employment Opportunity company and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Omnissa is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Omnissa are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, ethnicity, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past, present, or prospective service in the uniformed services, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Omnissa will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Omnissa welcomes applicants of all ages. Omnissa will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who have protected disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This job requisition is not eligible for employment‑based immigration sponsorship by Omnissa.

Omnissa is the digital work platform leader, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide as the former VMware End‑User Computing business. We make digital work, work – for businesses and their people. No painful IT processes or productivity trade‑offs. Instead, a seamlessly delivered digital employee experience that simplifies work. Our comprehensive digital work platform enables IT teams to provide secure, personalized experiences for every employee, on any device. Omnissa unifies, automates, and efficiently scales the digital workspace. By empowering employees to do their best work, anywhere, we help workforces everywhere unlock exponential business value. All is made possible with the Omnissa™ Platform, the first AI‑driven digital work platform for smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. It integrates multiple industry‑leading solutions across Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Desktops and Apps, Digital Employee Experience, and Security and Compliance. By continuously adapting to users’ work styles, Omnissa optimizes user experience, security, IT operations and costs. Recognized as 2025 Digital Workplace Company of the Year 2025 InfoWorld Awards Finalist – App Volumes RemoteTech Breakthrough Award Winner – Digital Workplace Company of the Year CRN Product of the Year Finalist – Omnissa Horizon (DaaS) Omnissa is committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve across the globe. We believe this brings unique perspectives, experiences, and ideas, which are essential for driving innovation and achieving business success. We hire based on merit and with equal opportunity for all.