Senior Engineering Manager – Engineer Productivity & Operational Excellence

San Jose, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 154700 - 320000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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!

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.

Youll 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.

What Youll Own

Youll 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.

What Youll Do

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.

Qualifications

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.
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience (Masters or Ph.D. preferred).

Preferred Tools & Technologies

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

Why Join Us

Lead a strategic function that directly impacts engineering velocity and product delivery.
Work with passionate teams solving complex technical challenges at scale.
Competitive compensation benefits and long-term incentives.
Be part of a culture that values creativity curiosity and continuous learning.

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 positionis $$320000 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand 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 Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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Our CompanyChanging 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...