Mgr, Software Development
Adobe · Posted Oct 7
Creative software, document productivity, and digital marketing solutions
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About the role
Customer Experience Orchestration (CXO) is a key part of Adobe’s strategy to help enterprises deliver personalized, connected customer experiences at scale, and Adobe Campaign is the enterprise marketing product built within it. This Engineering Manager role leads a high-achieving engineering group with security as the primary emphasis, driving the product’s security strategy, vulnerability remediation, and advancement of Adobe’s security practices against emerging AI-related risks. The position also provides technical and people leadership for core product development, ensuring scalable, dependable, and high-quality customer solutions.
What you will do
- Security Leadership: Own and drive Adobe Campaign’s security strategy in an evolving threat landscape developed by frontier AI models and increasingly sophisticated attack techniques. Partner with Security and Engineering teams to identify risks, prioritize remediation, and strengthen the product’s security posture. Help advance Adobe’s security practices and capabilities to address emerging AI-related risks while ensuring the continued protection of customer data and enterprise systems.
- Technical Leadership: Guide architecture and technical decisions for complex, scalable, and reliable systems.
- People Leadership: Mentor and develop engineers, support career growth, and build a high-performing team.
- Engineering Excellence: Establish high standards for software quality, reliability, performance, operational excellence, and engineering practices.
- Product Leadership: Partner with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, and other collaborators to translate business and customer needs into effective technical solutions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.
- Own and complete the security charter for Adobe Campaign, including security improvements, vulnerability remediation, and collaboration with internal security organizations.
- Provide technical direction and oversight across the team’s engineering initiatives.
- Deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions through sound engineering methods and technical decision-making.
- Direct application security and vulnerability oversight for enterprise SaaS products, involving threat modeling, secure code review, source/sink/escape analysis, and addressing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
- Address security vulnerabilities across native C++, server-side JavaScript, web, SOAP, and REST surfaces, including injection, broken authentication and authorization, CSRF, SSRF, XXE, XSS, and complex pre-authentication RCE chains.
- Partner with teams across multiple functions to define priorities, manage execution, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Identify and address technical, operational, and architectural challenges.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, systems, and team practices.
- Participate in hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, cloud architecture, architectural patterns, and modern frameworks.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and system build experience.
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure and modern engineering tools and practices.
- Strong programming experience in C++, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience building scalable, reliable enterprise software.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of LLMs, agentic AI, and AI-assisted software development lifecycles, with the ability to boost developer efficiency, code quality, and security review efficiency.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in application security, secure software development, vulnerability management, or security engineering.
- Experience driving security initiatives for enterprise software products.
- Experience with security scanning, CVE remediation, threat modeling, authentication and authorization, and security compliance.
- Experience working with extensive enterprise SaaS solutions.
- Application security & vulnerability management for enterprise SaaS: Experience with threat modelling, secure code review, source/sink/escaper taint analysis, and remediation of OWASP Top 10 and related vulnerability classes, including injection, broken authentication/authorization, CSRF, SSRF, XXE, XSS, and multi-stage pre-auth RCE chains across native C++, server-side JavaScript, web, and SOAP/REST surfaces.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Adobe
Adobe Inc. is a global software company widely known for its creative, publishing, and document productivity tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat. The company operates major cloud platforms—Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud—serving individual creators, small businesses, and large enterprises worldwide. Adobe has increasingly integrated powerful generative AI capabilities like Adobe Firefly and Acrobat AI Assistant into its product ecosystem.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 31360+ employees
- Founded
- 1982-12-01
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 1985-01-01Series A
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Steven Day
Interim Chief Financial Officer
President, Creativity and Productivity Business
President, Customer Experience Orchestration Business
Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President, Employee Experience
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