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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Software Development Engineer

Adobe senior full-time

Salary

$159,200 - $301,600 annually

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Description

Be a part of Adobe’s Experience Platform (AEP), our fastest growing business in the Experience Cloud. AEP manages petabytes of data on behalf of our customers, allowing them to have a centralized and standardized data platform & applying data analytics to improve the design and delivery of rich & timely personalized experiences.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AEP Core Platform team. You will design and develop distributed services that are resilient, highly available, and scalable. You will collaborate with business partners, architects, technical leads, product management and analysts to develop high-quality customer centric solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop distributed services that are resilient, highly available, and scalable.
  • Collaborate with business partners, architects, technical leads, product management and analysts to develop high-quality customer centric solutions.
  • Guide multi-functional technical initiatives across related teams, establishing architectural direction for capabilities that cross service boundaries.
  • Own feature development from inception to production rollout and postmortem & contribute to the development of engineering processes.
  • Evaluate innovative technologies and incorporate them, heavily use AI for improved efficiency and iterate faster.

Requirements:

  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience, required; M.S. or equivalent practical depth preferred.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience having built highly maintainable, scalable systems with Scala/Java or comparable, strongly typed language.
  • Deep proficiency in Java or Scala , including the runtime: JVM memory management, GC tuning, thread scheduling, and how allocation patterns affect tail latency at high event rates.
  • Proven ability to reason about system performance at scale , predict where a build breaks under load, profile production systems, and drive optimizations that improve real metrics.
  • Ability to multi-task simultaneously different projects, having a positive outlook, motivated learner with strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have:

  • Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity and focus on designing and building complex software systems with excellent quality to address customer problems.
  • Experience developing backend distributed applications on Java/JVM and Spring (or similar framework).
  • Shown experience using structured, focused approaches to solving technical, data, and logical problems.

Pay Range: The U.S. pay range for this position is $159,200 - $301,600 annually. In California, the pay range for this position is $208,300 - $301,600.

Skills

Nice to have

  • Spring framework
  • backend development
  • problem-solving

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/external_experienced/job/San-Jose/Senior-Software-Development-Engineer-5_R171007

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