Sr. Director Infrastructure Engineering, Developer Platforms

Qualifications
You should be respected as a thought leader, able to influence, persuade and direct sound technical and architectural choices across many teams
Deep customer empathy for the Developer as our primary customer stakeholder
Well versed with distributed computing principles and approaches, including Kubernetes
Proven experience building reliable, high-scale, cost-efficient cloud services
Experience with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD practice on large scale cloud services
Well versed in writing optimized code and architectural patterns for optimization
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
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Benefits
The U.S. pay range for this position is $1+7,700 -- $416,600 annually
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
Creativity, curiosity, and constant learning are celebrated aspects of your career growth journey
If you are applying for a role outside of your current country, ensure you review the International Resources for Relocating Employees on Inside Adobe, including the impacts to your Benefits, AIP, Equity & Payroll
Responsibilities
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
You will need to demonstrate executive presence, represent technical direction and architectures to everyone from new grads to C-level executives and do more than talk – you will build and own critical services and deliver them to production
This is an operations-heavy role – your team will manage a significant subset of all compute infrastructure at Adobe and the leader will need significant operational experience in a high-scale, cloud-based, high-reliability, and always-on operational environment
Lead the Infrastructure Engineering team, which provides compute as a service via managed Kubernetes, as well as a unified and integrated API gateway
Define the long-term strategy for Infrastructure Engineering, including new areas for greenfield exploration such as Infrastructure Resource Lifecycle Management, and managed-DBs as a service, including deployment pipelines and observability
Speak at industry events, representing Adobe’s Developer Platforms group and our strategy for approaching Developer Experience and Platform Engineering
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
Job description
JOB LEVEL
M70/P70

EMPLOYEE ROLE
People Manager

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 the infrastructure engineering effort for Adobe’s Developer Platforms team. We seek a self-starter who will drive projects to achieve results and meaningful outcomes. You should be respected as a thought leader, able to influence, persuade and direct sound technical and architectural choices across many teams. You will need to demonstrate executive presence, represent technical direction and architectures to everyone from new grads to C-level executives and do more than talk – you will build and own critical services and deliver them to production. This is an operations-heavy role – your team will manage a significant subset of all compute infrastructure at Adobe and the leader will need significant operational experience in a high-scale, cloud-based, high-reliability, and always-on operational environment.

What you'll Do
• Lead the Infrastructure Engineering team, which provides compute as a service via managed Kubernetes, as well as a unified and integrated API gateway. This team manages hundreds of K8s clusters across multiple cloud providers and Adobe-managed data centers.
• Define the long-term strategy for Infrastructure Engineering, including new areas for greenfield exploration such as Infrastructure Resource Lifecycle Management, and managed-DBs as a service, including deployment pipelines and observability.
• Speak at industry events, representing Adobe’s Developer Platforms group and our strategy for approaching Developer Experience and Platform Engineering.
• 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

What you need to succeed
• Deep customer empathy for the Developer as our primary customer stakeholder
• Well versed with distributed computing principles and approaches, including Kubernetes
• Proven experience building reliable, high-scale, cost-efficient cloud services.
• Experience with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD practice on large scale cloud services
• Well versed in writing optimized code and architectural patterns for optimization
• 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 $1+7,700 -- $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 Incentive Plan (AIP).

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

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

Internal Opportunities

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