This role pays more than
98%
of similar roles. Most pay
$149,500–$203,474
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$280k
versus about
$176k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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
218 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$187,100–$270,950
across 216 roles with salary data.
Senior Software Development Engineer joins the Internal Services team to provide the platform engineering and deployment backbone for Adobe Fonts across various Creative Cloud platforms. This role involves owning and evolving the deployment platform, leading CI/CD strategy, and building foundations for AI-accelerated development including agent factories and inference applications. The engineer will modernize services for the AI era, manage security for agentic threats, and contribute to search and discovery features. Key technologies include JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, and AWS services like Lambda and S3. Candidates must possess expertise in containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled systems involving LLM inference, tool calling, and the Model Context Protocol. The role addresses the technical challenge of scaling reliable, secure, and automated internal tools for a large-scale font ecosystem.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?
Median $217725 from 77 postings across 8 companies.