Director Software Development

Adobe • San Jose, CA

71d • $179,300 - $354,600

About The Position

The Adobe Express and Engineering Platform organization is dedicated to building innovative products, accelerating release cycles, and ensuring reliability at scale. We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead multiple teams responsible for our core engineering infrastructure, including Developer Tools, Observability, Delivery Pipelines, Engineering Environments, Automation Frameworks, and End-to-End Customer Journey Testing. This role requires a proven technology leader who can balance technical depth with discernment, articulating both a clear near-term action plan and a compelling long-term vision. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in advancing DevOps and SRE practices to drive engineering productivity, while strategically demonstrating AI to unlock efficiencies and innovation across the organization.

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.
• A 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $179,300 -- $354,600 annually based on location and experience.
• Short-term incentives in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
• Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award for certain roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees