The OpportunityJoin our team as an Engineering Manager and help bring the power of Content Authenticity to Adobe products and the world through SDKs, UI toolkits and hosted services.
If you are excited by helping fulfill the basic right to know what the content we consume is, then this role is made for you. Lead and empower a team of accomplished engineers who are dedicated to delivering transparency, attribution, and provenance to all creators.
As an outstanding technologist you are driven to apply phenomenal tools, just enough process, and steadfast quality. Your primary responsibilities will be to lead a team of SRE engineers, while also getting your hands into the code. You'll help ensure that our SDKs, services, and web applications have proper guardrails and that spinning up new services is straightforward.
This is an exceptional opportunity for profound impact within the news and creative industries, to lead versatile engineers, and to be at the forefront of the movement creating a more credible internet.
What You'll Do- Lead and develop an engineering team: you will guide and mentor a small, dedicated group of engineers throughout the entire development process, from research and technical design to security assessment, implementation, and delivery. You will ensure smooth handoffs and releases with internal partners.
- Collaborate with product management and clients: you will work closely with product leadership, customers, and open-source developers to define and refine the roadmap, priorities, and schedule.
- Make data-driven decisions: rely on a combination of data and your instincts to make informed decisions and drive progress. Balancing speed and quality will be instrumental.
- Advocate for engineering excellence: you will champion engineering excellence, contributing to the architecture and high-level structure of our applications. Your depth of technical expertise will ensure that our products are built with high quality, developer experience, and scalability in mind.
- Drive culture and process improvements: You will not only manage your team but also improvements across the entire engineering team. Your insights and experience will help shape engineering practices.
- Actively participate in architectural discussions, proposing innovative solutions to complex technical challenges and driving consensus among stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure, alerts, etc that can be easily replicated via code
- Ensure there is proper documentation so developers can build on top of proper runbooks, baseline metrics, etc.
- Help ensure that as technologies change, our services update to match
What you need to succeedTo succeed in this role, the following skills and qualifications are crucial:
- CS degree or related degree, or equivalent experience
- Software engineering experience: 5 years or more of experience in software engineering is required.
- Leadership experience: a minimum of 2 years of experience successfully leading a software engineering team.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code such as OpenTofu, Terraform, etc
- Experience with container orchestration via Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, and other similar tools
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Cortex, Prometheus, Splunk, Sentry, New Relic
- A record of developing, leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers is vital. You can foster a positive environment, ensuring your team's professional development.
Pluses- Experience building on top of platforms to cater to team-specific needs
- Experience with performance and UI testing via tools such as K6 and Playwright
- Distributed team experience: you know how to work in a diverse team spread across different time zones but relish face-to-face time with your team when you have the opportunity.
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