Dir, Software Development

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 14 days ago $247,400–$358,250 / year
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TL;DR

Join Adobe’s Infrastructure Engineering team as a senior technical leader responsible for evolving the Kubernetes Platform at significant scale. This hands-on role involves deep expertise in Kubernetes internals, cloud-native ecosystems, and managed Kubernetes platforms like EKS and AKS. You will lead a team managing hundreds of K8s clusters across multiple environments, ensuring high reliability and operational excellence. Key responsibilities include setting technical direction, debugging complex distributed systems issues, and driving innovative solutions to enhance developer productivity. Ideal candidates have over 12 years of hands-on engineering experience with Kubernetes and cloud networking, plus at least 10 years in leadership roles, mentoring senior engineers and scaling organizations while maintaining technical rigor. Strong communication skills are essential for articulating technical strategies to both engineers and executives.

Skills

Kubernetes EKS AKS Docker CI/CD Terraform AWS Azure PostgreSQL Python Go Prometheus Grafana GitOps OpenStack Ansible Bash Cloud-Native Technologies DevOps Principles

What you'll do

  • Lead the Kubernetes Platform team managing hundreds of K8s clusters across multiple cloud providers.
  • Debug complex distributed systems issues end-to-end, including networking and performance bottlenecks.
  • Design and implement novel solutions for large-scale architectures and production operations.
  • Act as a technical authority, setting direction and making hard architectural decisions.
  • Develop and evolve engineering processes to optimize team efficiency in high-scale environments.
  • Partner with other teams across Adobe on achieving common goals related to Kubernetes platforms.

What we're looking for

  • Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes internals and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proven ability to design, build, and operate large-scale, cost-efficient cloud platforms.
  • Deep production-grade experience with Kubernetes (K8s), EKS, AKS, and cloud networking.
  • Demonstrated expertise in debugging complex distributed systems issues end-to-end.
  • 10+ years of engineering leadership experience raising the technical bar and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both engineers and executive stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Market check

Salary context

This $247,400–$358,250 range sits above 97% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$123,700–$214,950

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$195,410

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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