Site Reliability Engineer Manager

• 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.
• Ensure that there is clear documentation so developers can build on top of proper runbooks, baseline metrics, etc.
• Track emerging technologies so our services stay up to date to match

• 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.

• 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.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

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Expected Pay Range:

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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