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Sr. Software Development Engineer 5.5

Adobe
San Jose, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 May 2026
💰 $331,050/yr($173,500/yr$331,050/yr)

About the role

Adobe
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 build and deliver outstanding digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to develop 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 crafting outstanding employee experiences. Everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize new ideas can come from anywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP)

Adobe’s AEP and RTCDP provide a comprehensive customer experience management platform that allows companies to collect and control large volumes of customer data across various channels. They build profiles and audiences to offer personalized experiences. These platforms integrate fully with Adobe’s core services, improving real-time data capture, decision-making, and customer journey optimization. Understanding AEP is beneficial since it supports many of our newest Adobe product capabilities. Join our dynamic team delivering a leading Collaboration product that revolutionizes Advertising and co-marketing by linking top brands, major publishers, and data providers within a privacy-safe, extremely fast, and highly efficient system. We emphasize foundational areas such as Advertising Planning, Activation, Measurement, and Identity. Our objective is to develop the base for advanced services vital to Brand and Publisher clients. You will handle high-traffic, high-visibility applications, processing massive data and tackling complex challenges at scale.

If you have a passion for big data technologies and a desire to work on innovative projects, we encourage you to apply!

What You’ll Do
  • Develop critical data processing workflows, high performance microservices, advertising-related methodologies, and deliver them to production at scale
  • Articulate the choice of accurate tools and technologies
  • Translate high-level requirements into meaningful tasks and actions
  • Optimize distributed microservices and big data applications to reduce cost and improve availability
  • Lead sophisticated, large-scale projects in an Agile environment using Java, Jenkins, and Spark
  • Collaborate with multi-functional specialists (Product Management, Build, Engineering, etc.) to launch customer-focused solutions
  • Communicate clearly with leadership to define goals
  • Market ideas across teams and organizations
  • Be a technical leader with the ability and desire to mentor other team members


What You Need to Succeed
 
  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 9+ years of industry software development experience at Lead level or above
  • Proven record of delivering highly optimized code in Java/Scala (OOP principles, clean build, and development patterns)
  • Practical experience working with Big Data technologies like Spark, Snowflake, and Kafka
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB
  • Proficiency in data structures and algorithms
  • Deep understanding of modern cloud technologies and patterns for composing “always-up” services
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Unending curiosity, thoroughness, tenacity, and focus on quickly crafting and building sophisticated software systems with great quality to solve customer problems
  • Experience with Containers and CI/CD systems (like Argo CD and GitOps or equivalent experience)
  • Experience with AEP and Agentic AI is a plus

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 


Let’s Adobe together

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