Sr. Director of Engineering - Developer Experience

Our Company

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!

 

The Opportunity

Adobe Developer Platforms has the mission to help Developers “write better software, faster.” Our goal is to provide integrated experiences for technical folks, to streamline the tasks of building, testing, deploying and operating services at scale. We strive to build into all our product offerings strong defaults around security, cost efficiency, reliability and operational observability, to minimize the cognitive load and toil needed to effectively build and run services at web scale.

We build platforms and work to deliver them as an integrated product to our customers, who come in two main classes:

• Developers, Site Reliability Engineers, Database Engineers and other technical folks inside Adobe who build our products, our platforms and internal IT systems.

• Outside Developers and employees at our customer companies, consultancies and independent software vendors, who are building on, extending and integrating with our products to add new capabilities or to solve unique integration challenges.

​For this role, we are looking for someone to lead Developer Experience Engineering, which includes our Developer Home portal, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), as well as owning common shared libraries like Adobe Service Runtime.  We seek a self-starter who will drive projects to achieve results and meaningful outcomes.

What you'll do

• Lead engineering for the Developer Home, CI/CD and shared utilities teams within Developer Platforms

• Act as a liaison to client and partner engineering teams to share the Developer Platforms mission, vision and roadmap

• Gather input on client needs and proposed integration points with technical services which are delivered by our partner organizations

• Inspire and encourage our internal customer teams to contribute to Developer Platforms via an internal open source and open contribution model

• Review and provide feedback on features, technology, architecture, designs, time & budget estimates, and test strategies

• Manage projects risks & engage in creative problem solving

• Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency

• Partner with other teams across Adobe on achieving common goals

• Speak at industry events, representing Adobe’s Developer Platforms group and our strategy for approaching Developer Experience and Platform Engineering.

What you need to succeed

• Deep customer empathy for the Developer as our primary customer stakeholder

• Proven experience building reliable, high-scale, cost-efficient cloud services.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• 12+ years of hands-on development experience

• 10+ years of experience leading Development Teams

• 5+ years of experience as a manager of managers and Director-level folks

• A commitment to building exceptional, diverse and high-performing teams

• Strong persuasion and influence skills

• Bachelors in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

• Desirable: Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $197,700 -- $416,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual