Director Software Engineering (SRE)
adidasBogota, Bogota, Capital District, Colombia
Posted January 9, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
At adidas, our love for sport drives who we are and what we do. We believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives.
Job Description
At adidas, we are looking for a Director Software Engineering (SRE) to lead our SRE practice and ensure the stability and reliability of our digital products. The successful candidate will have strong experience in SRE principles, leadership, and technical skills such as Microservices architecture, public cloud offerings, and enterprise tools.
Requirements
- At least 10-year experience in IT experience with 7 years in relevant area (DevOps / SRE)
- Previous experience leading an engineering team as a servant-leader
- College or university degree with focus on IT or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Proficient spoken and written command of English
- Demonstrated understanding of Microservices architecture and best practices
- Good understanding of public cloud offerings such as AWS components like EC2, IAM, RDS, Cloudwatch etc.
- Knowledge of server-side technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Java
- Hands on experience on enterprise tools set such as Grafana, Instana, Prometheus, ELK Stack etc.
- Understanding of Linux and Networking systems
- Has experience in any scripting language (bash / python / perl)
- Good experience with CI/CD pipelines including BitBucket, Jenkins
- Experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production
- Knowledge of Agile software development principles including using JIRA
- Experience in 24/7 high availability production environment
- Experience with building Rest APIs, API Integration, and Web Services is preferred
- Exposure to agile processes
- International Experience - ideally working abroad and mobile in leadership roles
- Ability to cope with change, make decisions and act comfortably when confronted with risk and uncertainty
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Valuable discounts on adidas products
- Individual development, training and a tech community
- Sport friendly environment, great work-life balance and flexibility
