Director Software Engineering (SRE)

At adidas, our love for sport drives who we are and what we do. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics. We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs. We believe that through Sport, we have the power to change lives. To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers and the best way to accelerate building direct relationships is through Digital.

Purpose :

We believe that “through sports we have the power to change lives”. adidas digital products are the most powerful tool we have, to touch the lives of our consumers. At adidas, SRE is a capability that ensures products’ stability and reliability to run on large scale, distributed systems which in turn provide exceptional, uninterrupted User Experience for our consumers. As individuals, we are creative, collaborative and confident. As a team, we are agile, are empowered to make change, and are obsessed with maintaining stable and reliable platforms for our consumers.

Responsibilities :

• Lead an engineering team : setup the SRE practice and the corresponding change management involved. Grow an inspiring, inclusive, and collaborative environment, working with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and other Tech Leads to plan out new initiatives, managing both technical and non-technical risks. Champion knowledge sharing, cultivate learning and avoid knowledge silos in the team. Implement and drive the Site Reliability Engineering within adidas. Be involved in recruitment to help strengthen our SRE team. Lead initiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture. Discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team and the organization.
• Cultivate system architecture for a set of product services / applications : Establish a shared team Technical Vision aligned with the product roadmap to achieve outcomes for the entire digital organization. Shepherd the team towards the Technical Vision in small increments to improve modern infrastructure and deployment platform that currently enables over 100 deploys a week. Communicate technical topics or constraints to non-technical stakeholders in easily understandable ways. Grow architectural understanding and champion system stability and reliability within the team.
• Develop and mentor our engineers : Demonstrate healthy modern engineering practices through writing clean and well-tested code with the team. Guide the team to continually improve the infrastructure and tools for our development process to speed up feedback and improve quality. Grow our engineers through coaching and mentoring and finding new opportunities to learn through the continuous delivery of value. Demonstrate behaviors that encourage the DevSecOps culture and pragmatic engineering at adidas.

What we are looking for :

Specific technical skills :

What if I don’t check all the boxes?

It’s ok if some of the technology or terminology mentioned here are new for you. We’ll happily teach you. adidas is keen to increase our team’s diversity of backgrounds and skills, and we’re more interested in the work you will produce than that work you’ve already produced in the past. If you’d love to work with us, then we’d love to hear from you.

Technologies we use :

What we offer :

To be the best sports company in the world, you need the best talents within your teams. If you are looking for growing professionally within adidas, we are happy to receive your application.

Through sport, we have the power to change lives

At adidas we have a winning culture. To win, physical power is not enough. Just like athletes, our employees need mental strength in their game. We foster the athlete’s mindset through a set of behaviors that we want to enable and develop in our people and that are at the core of our unique company culture : this is how we win while playing fair.

At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.

– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –

By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.

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