Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend)

Adobe

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San Jose, US Posted 73 days ago $177,900–$257,550 / year
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TL;DR

Join the Forward Deployment Engineering team within Adobe’s Digital Experience organization as a senior software engineer, where you will design and implement features based on customer requirements, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability. Your day-to-day involves developing production-ready code for highly available systems, ensuring robust testing and observability, and collaborating with technical leads to deliver solutions that meet business objectives. You will also contribute to root cause analysis during service outages and mentor other engineers. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in Java or Scala, expertise in RESTful web services, and hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases. Strong skills in cloud platforms, microservice architecture, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React/Next.js are essential, along with a solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems and data processing pipelines.

Skills

Java Scala Spring Boot RESTful APIs Kafka Spark Hadoop AWS Azure Databricks Snowflake Airflow JavaScript TypeScript React Next.js Python CI/CD

What you'll do

  • Design and implement features based on customer requirements, ensuring performance and reliability.
  • Develop production-ready code for highly available systems, SaaS applications, and RESTful APIs.
  • Ensure robust testing and observability standards are met in all projects.
  • Contribute to root cause analysis during service outages to improve system resilience.
  • Mentor other engineers on best practices for customer-facing delivery and solution design.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with Java or Scala.
  • Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful web services and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in relational and NoSQL databases, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop.
  • Strong problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear articulation of technical concepts.
  • Experience working effectively in cross-functional teams with situational awareness.

Market check

Salary context

This $177,900–$257,550 range sits above 82% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$209,315

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$139,000–$201,600

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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