Adobe is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to drive the evolution of Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO), a platform that enables real-time orchestration and delivery of personalized experiences across various channels. The goal is to empower customers to create exceptional, personalized digital experiences at scale, addressing complex needs with AI and ensuring high performance, reliability, and innovation in enterprise-grade solutions.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of modern software development practices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Expert knowledge of Java , streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka), relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB), containerized compute (e.g. Kubernetes), caching frameworks , and networking.
- Experience with AI/ML systems and enterprise software development is a strong plus.
- Proven skill and enthusiasm for rigorous quality practices, observability, and incident response in production environments.
- Strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach.
- Ability to think strategically and apply excellent judgment.
- Experience building enterprise B2B or B2C products in the marketing automation, analytics, experimentation, decisioning, or personalization space is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead teams in designing, implementing, and maintaining core components of AJO, with a focus on the distributed systems powering real-time customer journey orchestration.
- Collaborate with business and technical leaders to shape and rapidly deliver on a technical vision for efficiently addressing the most complex needs of our enterprise customers.
- Drive differentiated value and growth through effective application of AI for customers and developers.
- Champion standard engineering practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and continuous integration/deployment.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, cross-team collaboration, and accountability.
- Oversee the architecture and operation of large-scale, globally distributed transactional and streaming systems.
- Ensure high availability and low latency in enterprise environments.
Other
- 6+ years of experience managing teams that built and operated complex software systems across the stack.
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams of top engineers (12+) in a competitive job market.
- Success in driving complex, cross-team projects on tight timelines.
- Versed in using AI to scale team productivity.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the capacity to clearly articulate complex technical concepts.
- Ability to influence/collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels.
- Strong sense of ownership and a passion for building products that delight users.
