Senior Computer Scientist- Developer Experience

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 56 days ago $208,300–$301,600 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience (DevX) team at Adobe, you will focus on building and evolving the platform foundation for web-based creative applications, designing intelligent developer tooling that leverages AI to enhance productivity and code quality. Your day-to-day responsibilities include improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and test automation frameworks while partnering with product engineering teams to streamline workflows. You will develop high-performance, reliable, well-documented platform code and introduce AI-assisted development capabilities such as automated testing and debugging. Key skills required are expertise in performance optimization, reliability engineering, and experience with AI within the Software Development Lifecycle. Familiarity with C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python is preferred, along with a background in large-scale monorepo environments and modern web test automation frameworks. This role offers the opportunity to significantly impact Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform by enhancing engineering velocity and innovation capacity through advanced AI integration.

Skills

Python TypeScript JavaScript C++ CI/CD Terraform Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL Git Agentic AI LLM systems RAG architectures Vector databases Contextual memory systems Modern web test automation frameworks Large-scale monorepo environments Performance optimization Debugging Reliability engineering

What you'll do

  • Design intelligent developer tooling and workflows that leverage automation and AI.
  • Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and test frameworks for large teams.
  • Develop high-performance, reliable, well-tested platform code with documentation.
  • Identify productivity bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve engineering velocity.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and systems design.
  • Strong experience building scalable web platforms or developer tooling.
  • Practical use of AI within the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and reliability engineering.
  • Experience designing CI/CD systems, monorepos, build tooling, or test automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with core AI fundamentals and integrating AI into production systems.

Market check

Salary context

This $208,300–$301,600 range sits above 100% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$199,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$139,000–$175,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 290 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,300–$265,350 across 290 roles with salary data.

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