Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with distributed applications at scale in public and/or private cloud, including 3+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience leading teams that architect and implement large-scale Observability platforms
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Proven ability to hire, develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent in a diverse and distributed team environment

Must Have

• Track record of leading teams operating internally hosted logging systems like Splunk, ClickHouse, Loki, Elastic, supporting clients and improving environment performance and stability
• Demonstrated ability to drive ingestion cost optimization through data-driven analysis, pipeline guardrails, and engagement with customer engineering teams
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, including collector configuration, pipelines, and instrumentation
• Experience setting technical direction for AI agent development and integrating AI workflows into large-scale deployments
• Experience overseeing distributed environments with thousands of users
• Familiarity with Go and Python sufficient for technical leadership and architecture review
• Experience guiding design and implementation of systems for fault tolerance, scalability, and stability
• Experience leading teams developing, deploying, and running distributed applications on cloud platforms including Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to establish and manage on-call coverage across a multi-tool observability stack
• Accountable for highest level of uptime and Quality of Service through operational excellence
• Experience defining service level objectives and indicators to measure service quality
• Knowledge of public and/or private cloud deployments
• Partnering with SRE and Engineering/Product leadership to drive initiatives and align roadmaps
• Experience overseeing design and maintenance of production monitoring systems
• Ability to coordinate resolution of performance and stability issues with various tools
• Excellent communicator driving projects and people to successful outcomes
• Ownership of technical direction, strategic decisions, and team planning
• Responsible for performance management, career development, and headcount planning

Good to Have

• Experience guiding teams evaluating and prototyping alternative storage/processing backends like ClickHouse and Loki
• Experience with other Observability tools such as Grafana, Cortex, and Tempo
• Familiarity with cloud security and automation concepts, practices, and procedures
• Championing DevOps/SRE approaches across organizations
• Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and cross-organizational stakeholder communication

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading a diverse global team building and maintaining critical Observability services for Adobe
• Driving Adobe’s observability strategy forward
• Building high-performing teams and solving complex technical tasks with clear impact
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure robust platform support for Adobe’s engineering teams

Perks and Benefits

• Working at Adobe, a company empowering creativity and innovation with industry-leading platforms
• Joining a mission-driven culture that values impact from every employee
• Inclusive work environment committed to Equal Employment Opportunity
• Access to comprehensive benefits programs supporting employees’ well-being
• Support for diversity, purpose, and community focus in the workplace