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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.

The Opportunity

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• 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.

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 $179,300 – $354,600 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.

State-Specific Notices

California:
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

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