Senior Engineering Manager - Engineer Productivity & Operational Excellence

Our Company

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.

We're 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!

What You'll Own

• You'll 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 You'll 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.

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience (Master's or Ph.D. preferred).

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

• 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.

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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