Senior Software Development Engineer

Adobe

Actively hiring
San Jose, US Posted 28 days ago $208,300$301,600 / year

At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe, you will join the cutting-edge GenAI team responsible for developing and scaling core services that power AI-first experiences across Experience Cloud. Your role involves designing scalable voice, evaluation, and moderation systems, as well as leading end-to-end development to ensure system performance, reliability, and security. You will also partner with platform teams to drive standardization and developer enablement. Additionally, you will focus on architecting world-ready GenAI systems by embedding internationalization and localization into the design, evolving the Globalization Framework for multilingual compliance, and establishing best practices for global quality. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in system architecture, distributed systems, and internationalization/localization, along with a track record of leading technical initiatives and integrating GenAI/LLM-powered systems in production.

Skills

Python Java Go Docker Kubernetes AWS CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL Swagger GitLab Microservices APIs LLMs GenAI Internationalization Localization

What you'll do

  • Design and architect scalable GenAI core services including voice, evaluation, and moderation systems.
  • Lead end-to-end development of GenAI services, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
  • Embed internationalization and localization into platform design for world-ready GenAI systems.
  • Drive improvements in multilingual capability, safety, and consistency across products.
  • Establish best practices and metrics for global quality in GenAI systems.

What we're looking for

  • MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of software engineering with distributed systems.
  • Expertise in system design, microservices, APIs, and platforms.
  • Experience with internationalization/localization and global products.
  • Proven track record leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture.
  • Solid modern engineering practices including CI/CD and observability.

Market check

Salary context

This $208,300–$301,600 range sits above 97% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000$208,150

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$140,643$187,900

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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