Senior Software Development Engineer

Adobe

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On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
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Full-time
Posted
39 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer

The Senior Software Development Engineer joins the Internal Services team to provide the platform engineering and deployment backbone for Adobe Fonts. This role involves owning and evolving the deployment platform, leading CI/CD strategy, and building the foundation for AI-accelerated development. You will build an agent factory, ship inference applications at scale, and modernize existing services for the AI era. Key responsibilities include managing security for agentic threats and extending the Model Context Protocol surface. Required skills include full-stack fundamentals using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby/Rails, Python, and Go. You must also possess expertise in Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS services like Lambda and API Gateway. The work focuses on solving infrastructure challenges for containerized services, serverless environments, and large-scale ML inference.

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What you'll do

  • Own and evolve the deployment platform, including CI/CD, PR environments, and release safety for containerized and serverless services.
  • Build the foundation for AI-accelerated development by growing the internal agentic toolkit and skill library.
  • Ship inference applications at scale by taking greenfield services from specification to production.
  • Modernize existing services to improve performance and scalability for the AI era.
  • Lead the security strategy for autonomous agents and their tool use to mitigate agentic threats.
  • Extend the Model Context Protocol surface to enable conversational and intent-based font discovery.
  • Contribute to customer-facing experiences including search, browse, and discovery features.
  • Manage production reliability through on-call support, incident management, and technical mentorship of other engineers.

What we're looking for

  • Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated senior-level impact.
  • Deep full-stack fundamentals including build, testing, code quality, and production maturity for latency, scale, and reliability.
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby/Rails, Python, Go, Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes/Helm, and AWS.
  • Strong CI/CD ownership using Jenkins or equivalent, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and progressive delivery strategies.
  • Experience with relational, caching, search, and event-driven/pub-sub data and messaging layers.
  • Hands-on understanding of AI-enabled systems, including agent runtimes, tool calling, MCP, LLM/inference serving, and sandboxed execution.
  • Track record of leading complex cross-team technical efforts and delivering high-impact platform work.
  • Ruby on Rails at scale and experience decomposing large monoliths (preferred).

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