Sr. Director of Engineering - Developer Experience
Sr. Director of Engineering - Developer Experience
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$ 197700 - 416600
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Job Description
Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
Were 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 selfstarter who will drive projects to achieve results and meaningful outcomes.
What youll 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 Adobes 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 highscale costefficient cloud services.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
12 years of handson development experience
10 years of experience leading Development Teams
5 years of experience as a manager of managers and Directorlevel folks
A commitment to building exceptional diverse and highperforming teams
Strong persuasion and influence skills
Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Desirable: Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
