Senior Engineering Manager - Engineer Productivity & Operational Excellence

Adobe Systems Incorporated•San Jose, CA

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About The Position

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Engineer Productivity & Operational Excellence organization in Photoshop. This role is central to our mission to "Empower Engineers to do more." You will drive strategy across multiple pillars to streamline how services are built, tested, deployed, and operated at scale while embedding strong defaults around security, cost efficiency, reliability, and observability. You'll lead a team focused on improving developer experience, automation, and platform reliability, and deliver integrated solutions that reduce cognitive load and operational toil for internal and external developers. You'll lead strategy and execution across four key pillars: Developer Experience (DevEx):Own developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, shared libraries, and automation. Drive AI enablement and build intuitive developer portals that reduce friction and boost velocity. Platform & Release Engineering:Build scalable infrastructure and release processes that support diverse product needs. Focus on reliability, extensibility, and cost optimization across environments. Automation & Quality Services: Lead intelligence-driven automation and quality assurance initiatives. Use AI and data to reduce manual effort and improve release confidence. Global Engineering Productivity : Partner with our India-based team to align global productivity initiatives and scale operational excellence.

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience, including 10+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Proven success building reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud services.
Deep empathy for developers as primary stakeholders.
Strong understanding of CI/CD systems, developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and operational metrics.
Excellent communication, persuasion, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience managing managers and leading cross-functional teams.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience (Master's or Ph.D. preferred).

Nice To Haves

GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bazel, Terraform, Datadog, Kubernetes, and other modern DevOps and observability tools.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering teams across CI/CD, developer workflows, shared utilities, and automation platforms.
Act as a liaison to partner engineering teams, evangelizing the mission and roadmap of Developer Productivity.
Inspire internal teams to contribute via open-source and open-contribution models.
Review and guide architecture, design, test strategies, and delivery plans.
Manage project risks and drive creative problem-solving.
Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency.
Represent the team and strategy at internal and external industry events.