Software Development Engineer

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer on our team. You will work closely with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Product & other engineering teams across multiple geographies to deliver solutions to strategic priorities. The ideal candidate should embrace continuous learning, mentoring, and innovative thinking. Success in this role requires being a standout colleague, having a customer-centric approach, and maintaining a high-quality standard.

What You’ll Do

• Play a central role in the design, development, and delivery of Adobe’s Unified Billing Services.
• Work across teams and organizations to provide top-quality applications and services that address business and technology challenges.
• Craft and deliver highly performant, reliable, maintainable code along with deployments and highly available production environment.
• Improve developer efficiency, automate tasks & enhance customer experience using AI tools and capabilities.
• Be a great teammate to foster creativity, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and quick adaptation of newer technologies.
  
  

What you need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 2 - 5 years of demonstrated expertise working in back-end services end-to-end.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including design patterns, algorithms, asymptotic complexity, parallelism, and database schema design.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and micro-services architecture.
• Strong experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Frameworks, and scripting languages like Python, and building RESTful services.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure (preferably AWS/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with distributed messaging and streaming platforms from the Apache Foundation toolbox, such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Pulsar.
• Proficiency in tools and platforms such as Cursor, VSCode, and debugging tools like Splunk, New Relic.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and modern deployment strategies.
• Ability to take ownership of complex projects and provide end-to-end engineering solutions: from architecture design to implementation and production support.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, relationship-building, organization, and time-management skills.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• AI enthusiast with a focus on problem-solving and a passion for developing efficient and scalable solutions using AI.
• Outstanding communication skills.
  
  

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $113,400 -- $206,300 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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