Director Software Development at Adobe

San Jose, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, SoftwareIndustries

Requirements

  • Demonstrated use of AI/ML to enhance engineering productivity and organizational efficiency
  • Proven leadership in high-growth environments, with experience running enterprise-scale services across private and public cloud platforms
  • Strong track record of leading large, geo-distributed engineering organizations
  • Expertise in designing and managing complex development frameworks, deployment tools, test environments, and automation systems
  • Experience building or demonstrating A/B testing infrastructure and applying SRE operating models
  • Deep technical expertise with at least one major public cloud (Azure, AWS) and open-source technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Spark
  • Strong understanding of deployment systems, CI/CD pipelines, and system configuration
  • Experience delivering integrated end-to-end systems, including source control, build tools, artifact repositories, deployment, and monitoring
  • Proficiency in performance engineering and load testing at scale
  • Ability to define and manage SLAs for production-scale systems, ensuring reliability and data quality across platforms
  • Proven success in delivering high-impact dashboards, datasets, and visualizations to drive business and product decisions

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic direction and execution for Production delivery, Developer Tools, Observability and associated engineering environments
  • Embed AI into every facet of the engineering lifecycle, from internal solutions to vendor integrations to elevate efficiency and customer experience
  • Scale platforms to support millions of users and dozens of tenants, ensuring performance and reliability at enterprise scale
  • Lead and grow a distributed engineering organization of 50+ professionals
  • Define and implement the strategy for building a self-service, enterprise-scale reliability platform
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and rapid iteration across product, engineering, and marketing teams, enabling fast prototyping and innovation with a “fail forward” approach
  • Establish and enforce standards around frameworks, technologies, and processes to ensure consistency and simplicity across services
  • Define, measure, and continuously improve engineering productivity by setting benchmark critical metrics and SLAs, demonstrating data-driven insights for optimization

Skills

DevOps
SRE
AI
Observability
Developer Tools
Delivery Pipelines
Automation Frameworks
End-to-End Testing

Adobe

Software solutions for content creation and marketing

About Adobe

Adobe provides a range of software solutions focused on digital experiences, catering to creative professionals, businesses, and educational institutions. Its main offerings include Adobe Creative Cloud, which contains tools for photography, graphic design, video editing, illustration, UI/UX design, 3D and augmented reality, and social media content creation. Adobe also offers marketing solutions through Adobe Experience Cloud and document management services via Adobe Document Cloud. The company operates on a subscription-based model, allowing users to access its software through monthly or annual plans, with special pricing available for students, teachers, and businesses. Adobe differentiates itself from competitors by providing a comprehensive suite of tools that cover various aspects of content creation and marketing, all integrated into one platform. The goal of Adobe is to empower users to create, manage, and optimize their digital content effectively.

San Jose, CaliforniaHeadquarters
1994Year Founded
$668.9MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Consumer Software, Enterprise Software, DesignIndustries
10,001+Employees

Benefits

Company Equity
401(k) Company Match

Risks

Emerging AI-driven design tools offer similar functionalities at lower costs.
Open-source alternatives may attract users away from Adobe's subscription model.
Data privacy concerns could affect trust in Adobe's cloud services.

Differentiation

Adobe offers a comprehensive suite for content creation, marketing, and document management.
Adobe's subscription model includes special pricing for students, teachers, and businesses.
Adobe integrates advanced analytics with Experience Cloud for data-driven marketing.

Upsides

Generative AI tools enhance Adobe's content creation and editing efficiency.
Remote work boosts demand for Adobe's cloud-based document management solutions.
AR's popularity in marketing benefits Adobe's 3D and AR tools.

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