Hybrid Director, Software Development

at Adobe

• Job title: Director, Software Development
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $179,300 - $354,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Spark
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Jose, United States

About the role

• Director of Engineering overseeing engineering infrastructure at Adobe. Leading teams, embedding AI in processes, and scaling to millions of users in a collaborative environment.

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.

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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Professional development
• Flexible work arrangements